Posted on 03/06/2015 4:31:54 PM PST by DogByte6RER
• Republicans are particularly confident in their ability to survive an apocalypse
Many Americans have experience with natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes but each time that one hits an area of the country it is apparent that few people take disaster preparation as seriously as the government tells them to. When people are often so woefully unprepared for a hurricane or earthquake, what hope is there if civilization as we know it were to collapse?
Research from YouGov shows that Americans are relatively optimistic about their fate in the event of an apocalyptic event. People tend to say that their survival time in the event of an apocalypse would be roughly the same as most people in their community (42%). 32% say that they'd live longer than most while 11% think that they'd end up dying early on. There is a significant partisan split on this question, however. 43% of Republicans say that they would survive longer than most people in their community, something only 22% of Democrats say. 47% of Democrats say that they'd live as long as most other people in their community.
Should an apocalypse hit, one of the biggest questions everyone would face is whether to stay put or try and seek shelter somewhere else. Most Americans (62%) say that they would try to brave it out at home, but 38% say that they'd evacuate their current location and try to seek shelter somewhere else. People who live in cities (46%) are particularly likely to say that they would leave home and go elsewhere, while people in rural areas (78%) are the most likely to say that they would stay at home to try and survive ...
(Excerpt) Read more at today.yougov.com ...
I would recommend your town purchase 6 (or more) K-rails (aka Jersey rails). They make excellent traffic control points. Add some sandbags and a couple of armed citizens and you can positively lock the place down.
The problem that I have is that most of us are considered so far “right” we’ve dropped off the map. :-/
I’m ready, my guns are sharpened and my knives are loaded, in wait for the unprepared liberal hordes that expect gov. to take care of them.
I believe they talked about this on Redeye last night.
One of the silly participants said, if an Apocalypse occurred, and if that meant that Starbucks would not be in operation, she said, she would rather die.
Holy heck, that look an awful lot like...
I better not :O
Damn both my Alaskan relative and fellow Alaskan freepers would survived end of the world
I am screw in Cali LOL!
There are only between 75 and 100 people here. Most of us are middle aged so we aren’t hot headed about things. That’s a big help for avoiding or settling internal conflicts.
Ping.
“In any nuclear scenario, they would be attacking democrats.”
Hell, in ANY kind of SHTF scenario we’ll be attacking Democrats. I mean, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lra4PSZ5WCE
This Is Not A Test 1962 Nuclear Holocaust Film atomic cold war movie (71 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSGEiXO5894
Panic In Year Zero (91 minutes)
TV Director: Roll the rescue stations!
TV Producer: We just got a report that half those stations have been knocked out.
TV Director: Then get me another list.
TV Producer: Sure, I’ll just pull one out of my ***, right?
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
hmmm .... let’s see:
1. Earthquakes, San Bernardino County - high desert, maybe a few 2’s or 3’s; low desert - some 3’s, ‘the railroad train travels by’, ‘the sifter’, for example.
2. Hurricanes, Cape Cod, as a kid, there were one or two, one that yo-yo’d the Cape Cod Canal; Dover AFB, De, there was one where everything had to be buttoned down, and the entrie supply squadron inhabited the sturdy warehouses; and then, Hurricane Katrina.
3. Tornadoes, as a kid, living on Truax AFB, WI, in the on-base mobile home park, at noon, on my birthday, I found myself, in the water-filled, carp-inhabited drainage ditch watching a tornado go hop-scotch through the mobile home park.
4. Forest Fire, living on Cape Cod, in Otis AFB, which was in the middle of the Cape Cod National Forest, sitting inside the base housing unit, watching the fire spread on the other side of the large levee-like berm, and watching the base fire engine squad, and the Falmouth Fire Department both work to extinguish the fire.
Living in San Bernardino, in the early 1980’s, from the vantage point of my backyard, watching the forest fire line creep across the southern face of the San Bernardino mountains, which was caused by an arsonist.
5. Lastly, again, as a kid living on Otis AFB, I was exposed to all the nastiness, and the, then, known means of surviving a nuclear conflict, namely, “Your parents will be doing their duties. All you need to do is turn towards the bright light, and count, 1, 2, 3.”
So, now, at this stage of life, and such things as ‘DME’s’, ‘medications’, and ‘quality of life’, i will be bugging in, until i am sadly emulating Col. James Bowie.
Good luck to you all.
I'm a Republican who expects shots to be fired at me from a Republican's stockpile of ammunition. (A Republican who is the first of us to fall). We should have decided to specialize in a wide variety of non-interchangeable calibers. :(
I went through Katrina too. Taught me a lot about what it feels to live w/o electricity for weeks.
It ain’t got a danged thing to do with being a RINO or dim if you survive. It has EVERYTHING to do with your relationship to the one and ONLY LIVING GOD, JESUS CHRIST! Period, end of statement.
dear struggle ...
I agree.
OH I FORGOT!@!!
In the ‘60’s, that wonderful time when, while living on Otis AFB, even WE experienced (courtesy of a squirrel) ....
“WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT?”
(Yes, all un-essential buildings, including all of base housing, had no power for a week!)
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I’m in my seventh year of preps and consider myself more prepared than most. We can stretch things out long enough to know if it will ever turn around again. If it doesn’t we don’t want to be here anyway. If it does we’ll gladly help re-build a better place.
Is this a film version of the Pat Frank novel? Alas Babylon got me on the road to prepping 40 years ago. Fantastic book.
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