How Long Can You Tread Water?

June 28, 2010 | Tom Seaward

[GeronL]

optimists!

I’d say 90% of us would likely be dead in a year.

[scoobysnak71]

A country boy can survive ....

[Crim]

Pffft...some of us are prepared to live in a mad max world...

Everyone else?

Sucks to be you I guess...

Ant and the grasshopper...

[kbennkc]

A country boy can survive ....

Sounds good to me. Were used to making it and protecting what is ours .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIT64KpXRK4

[P8riot]

Soylent Green is people!!!!!!

[Repeal The 17th]

Is this a vanity of your own composition?
Or did you fail to source this information?
Or what?

[linn37]

About four years so far according to my checking account.

[cripplecreek]

Yep and I don’t want to hear any stupid fantasies about roving bands of urbanites ravaging the countryside. Most would die sitting in the city waiting for rescue, some would die of starvation in a cornfield within sight of a herd of cattle and those that survive are the bright ones who would have value.

[pingman]

“North Korea needs money, a lot of money. Plutonium is the most precious commodity on the planet. Will Pakistan or Korea sell their Plutonium or complete nukes? It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.”

Don’t know about you, but this brightens my day.../sarc

[vetvetdoug]

Living 80 miles from Memphis I think the wandering hoards are my main problem. The best we East of Memphis can do is blow up the bridges across the rivers to keep them away from here while they kill each other off. I have stored six months of food, fuel, and ammo and reconfigured my barn and house gutters to collect water. I figure most US citizens wouldn't last two weeks with the stores closed.

[goodnesswins]

Oh, Joy....I had almost recovered from reading ONE SECOND AFTER.....

[bgill]

Most would die sitting in the city waiting for rescue, some would die of starvation in a cornfield within sight of a herd of cattle and those that survive are the bright ones who would have value.

I'll never forget the woman on the bridge during Katrina who yelled at Fox News for giving her a bottle of water that wasn't iced down enough to suit her.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Is this a vanity of your own composition?

It's obviously a vanity -- and accordingly, it's supposed to be marked that way ... I guess he's still too new to know how it works around here ... LOL ...

[Star Traveler]

Here's some science on the matter of EMP ... it's not as big a deal as some people think ... :-)

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/08/electromagnetic-pulse-risk-not-total.html

[cripplecreek]

I live about 70 miles from Detroit about 15 miles off the highway and I’m not real concerned about the Obama money crowd coming through here. Plus they would have to pass through dozens of small havily armed towns along the way.

In my experience, city people generally don’t look to rural areas for safety. They mostly head for the next city.

[coon2000]

So we cannot rebuild the grid? the railroads and factories were destroyed in Europe during WWII, we rebuilt them. Why will the grid be forever destroyed so we can never have electricity again? I would think that a rebuild would be a good idea.

[Repeal The 17th]

Which one of these is you?
Google for: Tom Seaward

[lovecraft]

In my experience, city people generally don’t look to rural areas for safety. They mostly head for the next city.

I hope you're right, one of the authors he cites describes how most city folk would flood the rural areas believing that's where the food is grown.

I actually think the tendency to "head for the hills" would be foremost in their mind in the desperate search for food.

[barb-tex]

Did you notice the article is date lined, Hawaii, 1962. Now we know what happened to the Birth Certificate. I believe EMP in the Obama Nation would be a bigger deal than when the One was only one.
barbra ann