{"id":27098,"date":"2017-10-21T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27098"},"modified":"2017-10-21T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T19:05:58","slug":"fact-your-chances-of-surviving-a-post-collapse-urban-environment-are-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27098","title":{"rendered":"Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"<\/center>ReadyNutrition Readers, Simply put, urban survival<\/a> will be quite a bit different from survival in a remote wilderness area or even a sparsely-populated suburban area.\u00a0 Let\u2019s game some options, remembering that these options are general.\u00a0 These actions aren\u2019t specific to the type<\/em> of breakdown of society (external by an attack from a foreign nation<\/a>, or internal from economic collapse<\/a>, for examples).<\/p>\n

So, we have our collapse.\u00a0 Let us \u201cX\u201d out a nuclear war\/nuclear terrorist attack, as we can deal with all the other scenarios in variables without radiation to contend with.\u00a0 Let\u2019s identify the largest challenges faced for that high-rise apartment resident in Manhattan, or the family in the brownstone on the South side of Chicago.\u00a0 First, let\u2019s game the scenario:<\/p>\n

After \u201cThe Day,\u201d the city was almost completely without power.\u00a0 You and your wife and two children were not able to leave town.\u00a0 All mass transit was halted or discontinued.\u00a0 It has been three days, and your family has been listening to static on the radio for the most part, with \u201ccampy\u201d pre-recorded disaster broadcasts that have not been helpful or informative.\u00a0 One of your neighbors left this morning after saying goodbye: he and his family had a boat, and they were heading out of the harbor, hoping to use one of the major rivers to make an escape.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t have room to take you or yours, but you wanted to stay put and not follow your neighbor\u2019s idea: that there were plenty of boats whose owners were not going to use them\u2026probably dead following the rioting and civil breakdown.\u00a0 You\u2019re beginning to think you should have listened to him.\u00a0 Now you can hear angry voices outside, and you go to the window.\u00a0 A mob has gathered at the top of your street! \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fact: Your Chances of Surviving a Post-Collapse Urban Environment are Slim ReadyNutrition Readers, Simply put, urban survival will be quite a bit different from survival in a remote wilderness area or even a sparsely-populated suburban area.\u00a0 Let\u2019s game some options, remembering that these options are general.\u00a0 These actions aren\u2019t specific to the type of breakdown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7997,3316,2924,12881,629,3637,648,650,6787,728,4942],"class_list":["post-27098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-city","tag-disaster","tag-emergency","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-planning","tag-post-collapse","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-shtf","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27099,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27098\/revisions\/27099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}