No could be the smell of bar-B-qued long pig
Posted on 10/23/2013 2:44:48 PM PDT by Kartographer
Scenario: It’s been 20 days since the blackout and 3 days since you have eaten. All the store shelves have been cleared out and there is no sign of recovery. The lucky ones already made their way out of the city, but there are some who decided to stay in the neighborhood. After your daily dumpster diving for food and supplies, you are walking past an apartment complex and smell a delicious aroma. Could it be the smell of stew making its way out of the window of the abandoned apartment complex? At this point, you have nothing to lose and your sole thought is on survival. It’s either you or them so what would you do?
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What do you do? You go fish. Coast. Streams. Lakes. There’s urban fishing, too. Nutrias. Rats. Crawdads.
Snakes are easy to kill. Slow creatures. City pets, pet stores, and zoos are easy pickings, too.
What you avoid are humans, especially groups of them or someone dug in with supplies. Anyone with a fire and food is a high risk to have tools and weapons, and avoiding being wounded or expending energy fighting is like stocking up with 5 course meals for a couple of months in energy equivalence.
The flip question is how do you behave when you have food that others do not have. Killing “everyone” is a high risk plan, for example...as is “trusting everyone.”
Do you sleep out on a boat on a lake, under an overpass, on top of a skyscraper, out in a field, in a forest, in a bunker, in a house with more windows than you can monitor?
Do you shelter in place or bug out?
Do you yell to a passerby that you will trade a can of food if he chops up firewood for you?
Pure survival is the easy part. With a knife, shoes, a pot, and a fire starter...maybe even less (just a knife for the hard core), boiling water to be safe, catching rainwater, carving spears, and you’ve got the basics.
The hard part is the step above pure survival. Interacting with anyone else, such as trading. Entertainment. New social structures.
Take a small barrel. Put in wood. motor oil and urine. Ignite with gas. A putrid odor that will mask any food aroma.
Remember Eric Robert Rudolph? He was an expert survivalist. The Feds said he probably never would have been caught if he didn't get lonely.
Lol. Good one. Love Chaplin.
Grease collecting in soot in the chimney can alight if the temp rises too high in the chimney, so try not to cook fatty foods like bacon, etc with the smoke and grease rising in the chimney. Those bacon smells linger in the air for a loooong time, too.
Or just use the smell of the cooking HUMANS that came in the previous group (Why waste the food?)
New Yorkers would be used to that already and filter it out as everyday smells.......
Well, my first thought was that they will only smell the rotting bodies of those that came looking my food.
Where have the city dwellers gone? Out to the country? Ha haha ha!
No could be the smell of bar-B-qued long pig
Hi Matt...Thanks for opening up your Enemies’ trilogy on Amazon. I am reading book one now (purchased) and just grabbed the second in the series tonight. Alas, Brave New Babylon was a great read from the original thread...Had me thinking about a lot.
Keep it up bro..
Mike
Chaplin had the shoes made out of licorice. Supposedly he had to do a lot of takes. By the time the scene was finally finished, he was thoroughly sick of the stuff.
Rudolph was caught pulling scraps of food out of a giant metal garbage bin.
He stayed off of the grid for a few years, but living like a caveman is tough for formerly civilized people.
Most people only last a couple of weeks off of the grid, so he did better than average.
Well, I hadn’t really planned on cooking outdoors. I have the sterno stoves, and 2 fireplaces indoors. During the winter we use fireplaces for heat when the electric goes off, so I’ll cook stuff using that fire.
Most people on the block have fireplaces or woodstoves that they use during the winter too, so the air is going to smell of smoke.
I also have quite a few items that can just be eaten from the can or package without cooking. Don’t plan to cook much in the summer. Just boil some water for coffee and ramien noodles or fast mac.
Much of my stores are dehydrated. Boiling water makes no smell.
The blue book will finish the kindle free run of the trilogy next week, glad you are enjoying my stuff.
Heard the same thing about cigarette smoke smell - anyone have info on that?
They’ll hear a generator for a mile, too, unless you muffle it.
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