Welcome, Let’s just suppose that the United States does suffer an economic meltdown. Along with this, there’s also a complete breakdown of civil order, and even the military is powerless to bring things under control. Due to the population density of the eastern states, many will find themselves in direct competition for shelter, water, and food. This competition will most likely be life threatening up to and including dying from lack of to outright murdered, raped, and pillaged for basic resources. The only solution available to many survivalists would be to bug out into the Appalachian Mountains. For example, I live 1 ½ miles south Appalachian Trail in rural Pennsylvania. I’m not talking about hiding a cache of water and food. I’d simply live off the land. I’d use one of many fresh mountain streams, and boil/distil the water to make potable water. There are enough fish, game, and I know of a few edible wild plants to provide me with what I need. In this forum, we’ve discussed five and ten piece kits. With a basic five piece kit, as agreed upon by most real world survivalists, one would already have a cutting device, combustion device for fire, container for boiling/carrying drinking water, a covering device for improvised shelter, and cordage for making all sorts of improvised things, which would include, baited traps, snares, and fishing. With a small ten-piece kit, one could get by with relative ease in the eastern woodlands. If I packed 60 lbs worth of gear (no food or water included in the 60 lbs) and clothing for all four seasons, I, for example, could live up there indefinitely, and quite comfortably. Toss in one or more people with basic survival knowledge, and it’s the safest option I can think of. Most of the competition for resources will take place in urban, suburban, and rural farms. I seriously doubt that marauders will waste their time going after people up in the mountains in order to steal a survivalist’s daily supply of water, wild game, and edible wild plants. I also suspect that any other like-minded people encountered in the mountains would be a lot friendlier than anything in the valleys below. Most people don’t have a yacht or a private plane to escape to some secluded area. Moreover, they don’t have the resources to build a bunker, stockpile it, and make it loot proof, so I’d like to confine the area of operations to the Appalachian Mountains/Trail. From Georgia up the coast to Maine, there are fourteen states this area encompasses. Since we’re talking about such a large area, many people live within walking/hiking distance or a very short drive from this area. Would you think that many others people have this very same idea? Any and all ideas about this topic are welcome. Thank you and enjoy. Cheers, bolillo Read more: city-data/forum/self-sufficiency-preparedness/1363886-economic-holocaust-common-man-survival-appalachians.html#ixzz2fMzAfpJc
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:46:38 +0000
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