Posted on 05/31/2016 7:54:33 AM PDT by C. Nelson
First, you want to pick a place that allows you to maintain a normal, mainstream life before life as we know it comes crashing down. A lot of us are of the mindset that something catastrophic is inevitable. I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is a sooner rather than a later probability, however it could conceivably still be years away. So in the meantime, you want to have reasonably convenient access to things like employment, education, cultural and extracurricular activities for your kids, modern medical facilities, shopping, and all the trappings of modern life.
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Another consideration is proximity to nuclear power plants, proximity to military installations, distance from potential targets in a nuclear attack, and things of this nature. As to military installations, the concern is always martial law, confiscations, conscriptions and so on, all the FEMA camp nightmares we have envisioned and theorized about. I am not particularly concerned about nuclear war in the classic sense, and feel that EMP type weapons are a far more likely and devastating possibility, but terrorism is always a consideration and those guys are nuckin futs and very hard to anticipate, so being too close to potential targets detracts from an areas desirability.
So, where are the best places to be?
1. One of my favorite places is the Ozarks region of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma
This region provides many areas that are about the right distance from cities, have a good water supply, strong rural and conservative traditions, agricultural activity in the form of farming and ranching, and a history of subsistence farming.
Here's the full article (The 5 Best Places in America to Be in The Event of a Collapse)
What would be your first 5 options?
(Excerpt) Read more at askaprepper.com ...
Does any one know whther it’s true that there’s a humongous subterranean federal complex within this very area?
Freeper courtesy is to ping the freeper when you mention him in a post ;)
Summary: Go to the mountains. Zombies don’t like to climb.
Oak Ridge, TN and similar heavily secured communities
will probably survive the holocaust,
Unless someone blows up the nuclear plants
Your links all come up “Blank Page” for me. Please double-check or re-post verified links as a reply.
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NO No No: right off the bat that map is incorrect, as there is a big nuclear power plant in northern AR.
Funny you say that. Wife and I are remodeling the house at the farm and when that is done we are moving back there. It is still a very well built home, built in 1948 by my grandparents.
But even “in town” means a town of 600 people. hee hee hee
Isnt the fundamental problem getting there?
Watch the 2010 movie “Winter’s Bone” for an idea about Ozark living.
Until, of course, the New Madrid Fault lets loose.
I’ll stick to the Shenandoah Valley, thanks. . .
Right where I am next to the Columbia River and a nuke plant. If the nuke plant is nuked, well, I’ll have no more worries.
I was noticing that too.
Cue the song from “Deliverance”.
That’s serious hideaway redneck country!
Baby, can dig your man?
I consider it the Great American Novel.
The miniseries, not so much.
“We moved to WV for many of the same reasons.
But its awful here. Its so bad, I wouldnt even suggest visiting. ;)”
I not recommend Guam either :)
The Ozarks is mapped to be obliterated by ash, mud, etc if the Yellowstone volcano pops. Go west.
How about Utah? It sucks. Tarantulas, scorpions, rattlesnakes, high winds, heat, dust storms, torrential downpour. Everything here sucks. Please stay away. Never visit. You’d regret even getting close to this worthless horrid state. Oh, yeah...and then there is those pesky Mormons with all their “values”. Stay away.
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It only lists 3 places.
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