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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 19, 2017 15:50:13 GMT 10
spatial the thing that would have worried me about the property you listed was the fact that right in the middle of your 'town' there were two privately owned residences. Coupled with the fact that the cottages can't be occupied year round (with the exception of the caretaker), so the residents might have first dibs on your town if you were headed there.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 19, 2017 15:01:28 GMT 10
Option 2 gives you better quality of life on a day-to-day basis and you then have a weekender to improve over time as a bug out location.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 19, 2017 14:51:41 GMT 10
4-8 months. - not having large amounts of meat and veg/fruit is letting me down, though that's based on false assumptions about nutrition. 8-12 months. - If I make up for the flaws in the survey due to missing details or incorrect aspects. Of course it's quite flawed - food, you don't need 'meat' and 'veggies'. What you need is a balanced source of protein and vitamins, your body doesn't care about the type of food, it's the macro and micro nutrients that matter. So in my case I have a great deal of food in kits that is fairly balanced, food in the cupboards that's quite a variety, and older stores in buckets that's not balanced out at all, but adds quite a good amount of time. The reality of having about 3 years of food for 2, with a reasonable variety, vitamins and so on ought to have topped out that score. The food quantity is there to be able to provide additional people [security] in reality, though that would depend greatly on circumstances. - water, it doesn't include rain storage, that 1/4 of households in the country have and if you have a normal sized roof in most areas of the the country you'll have more than enough to drink. Perhaps not enough to grow food. I'd call it the most reliable and safe renewable water supply, as easy as cutting the guttering and sticking a drum under it. - fuel for heating. In most of the country, it's nice to be warm, but if you have warm clothes and bedding you could get away without heating no prob. - fuel for cooking. Why you need hundreds of gallons to cook, I'm really not sure? Other options such as alcohol stoves [my main option and kept with kits] isn't there and if you do one big meal a day [500g pasta lets say] then that's only about 80mls/day if you're stretching it. 1 Gallon = 47 days at that rate. Same goes with propane for cooking, you need to have 209 gal of propane to get +1 shelter. You're kidding me, a 8.5kg bottle is about 16L of fuel, so you need 13 of them to score only +1, I think not, that's enough for years of cooking. Here's the scoring from the show by the guy who did it. There's some flaws here too, though the thing about all of this is I like that it gives you 'some' idea as to where you might want to focus and I'm all for that and I think it's useful. Having watched this ages ago, I made some adjustments to my approach to prepping because of it. I think we should make up our own scoring sheet based loosely on this, though allowing for the obvious 'success' caveats already mentioned. As Frostbite said, having a river through your property is a pretty reliable source of water and endless, assuming it never goes dry. Having various means of filtration etc would be useful as redundancy, though they ought to only add a small percentage after the main filtration. Thinking about homes in the US - if you answer that you have propane to cook food, they are assuming you have a 500 gallon propane tank outside your house (I do back in NH) - they aren't thinking about cooking on the BBQ or a burner attached to a propane bottle. Rain storage is VERY uncommon in the US, but freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and streams are much more common. Is QLD (Brisbane specifically) temperate? Or Hot? They had a cactus next to hot, so they are thinking Arizona, Nevada, NW Texas in the US - not places that get 1200 mm of rain a year. The Meat and Veggies was a bit mystifying to me as well. They don't ask about vitamins, calories, fats, etc. - just pounds of meat/grains and servings of veggies/fruit and MREs. Where do you stores of UHT milk, Butter, Gatorade, Juice, Sugar, Honey, Snickers, etc. get accounted for?
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 19, 2017 14:37:41 GMT 10
2-4 weeks
Water and Food were seen as my weaknesses - I find it kind of odd where I have 12 months worth of calories for the three of us and 200+ litres of bottled water in the basement, a Berkey and water purification tabs for 2+ years
I scored well on medical and X-factor, but not having guns and ammo were an issue.
I went back and maxed out every answer except the guns and ammo and the max score you can achieve is 8-12 months without guns and ammo
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 15, 2017 12:57:20 GMT 10
Interesting that China was "shocked by the air strikes", where most reports put the Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House during/immediately prior to the missile launch against Syria. Most reports suggest the timing was strategic, so he was most likely in the know ahead of time.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 15, 2017 2:29:00 GMT 10
@pasta deefa I respectfully disagree. The war in Afghanistan has dragged on 16 years and I see this as a decisive move signaling the likely withdrawal of US and coalition troops in the near to mid-term. I don't think Trump wants the military fighting other President's wars.
I discussed this with a friend last night, here in Brisbane, whose partner is one of the 5,000 coalition soldiers currently deployed in Afghanistan. We discussed the MOAB as an attempt to put an end to this never ending conflict (anyone else notice that the primary enemy shifted from being the Taliban to ISIS in this one?).
I oppose the Taliban and ISIS and want our soldiers (coalition and US) brought home as soon as possible. I think the MOAB moves the needle in that direction.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 14, 2017 6:55:23 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 14, 2017 6:48:47 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 11, 2017 9:21:57 GMT 10
Portable Rape Dungeon??? A little scary that you went there Joey
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 10, 2017 11:34:08 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 8, 2017 0:29:32 GMT 10
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Zert
Apr 7, 2017 15:53:43 GMT 10
Post by ziggysdad on Apr 7, 2017 15:53:43 GMT 10
Their "Train, Train, Train" mantra makes sense, but I'm concerned that they might actually believe in zombies...
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 7, 2017 15:46:18 GMT 10
The video of the children suffering from the nerve agent is pretty horrific. I'm glad the US responded - I'm equally glad that they informed Australia and Russia prior to launching the Tomahawks.
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Post by ziggysdad on Apr 1, 2017 7:39:10 GMT 10
Lots of flooding in SE QLD, but most of it south of Brisbane into northern New South Wales.
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 22, 2017 13:27:07 GMT 10
I have often considered putting aside some time to grab my bag from the car and try the 3hr hike from the office to home. If something were to go south that's most likely where I'd be. Has anyone tried anything like that? I walk to and from work every day!
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 10, 2017 22:29:06 GMT 10
Shines - a dozen TPS for a can of butter?
Shoes - any chance of trading a half dozen eggs for some milk?
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 9, 2017 21:00:29 GMT 10
What are you looking for with the Butter? The first thing that came to my mind was a couple of Avocados or Seed Potatoes
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 9, 2017 20:58:59 GMT 10
You can make liquid soap from cakes, just soak the cake in 3 times as much water and in a week it'll be liquid. My wife and daughter did that and it was like washing with soap scum...no thank you!
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 9, 2017 10:49:42 GMT 10
I could be persuaded to trade 340g cans of Red Feather Pure Creamery Butter, 1L boxes of UHT Full Cream Milk, and/or Satchets of Nescafe Coffee.
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 9, 2017 10:40:06 GMT 10
Great video - I want to try this!
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