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They Will Smell Your Food From Miles Away…
SHTF Plan ^ | 10/23/13 | Tess Pennington

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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To: DCBryan1

.....:o)


41 posted on 10/23/2013 4:15:29 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Kartographer

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.


42 posted on 10/23/2013 4:24:35 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Kartographer

Take a small barrel. Put in wood. motor oil and urine. Ignite with gas. A putrid odor that will mask any food aroma.


43 posted on 10/23/2013 4:28:27 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Southack
The hard part is the step above pure survival. Interacting with anyone else, such as trading. Entertainment. New social structures.

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.

44 posted on 10/23/2013 4:46:31 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: PLMerite

Lol. Good one. Love Chaplin.


45 posted on 10/23/2013 4:50:07 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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.


46 posted on 10/23/2013 4:59:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Or just use the smell of the cooking HUMANS that came in the previous group (Why waste the food?)


47 posted on 10/23/2013 5:44:26 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: NautiNurse
Assuming the stench of rotting garbage and human excrement have not saturated the air.

New Yorkers would be used to that already and filter it out as everyday smells.......

48 posted on 10/23/2013 6:03:43 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Kartographer

Well, my first thought was that they will only smell the rotting bodies of those that came looking my food.


49 posted on 10/23/2013 6:08:14 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Kartographer

Where have the city dwellers gone? Out to the country? Ha haha ha!


50 posted on 10/23/2013 6:08:31 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Kartographer
Could it be the smell of stew making its way out of the window of the abandoned apartment complex?

No could be the smell of bar-B-qued long pig


51 posted on 10/23/2013 6:51:30 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: Travis McGee

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


52 posted on 10/23/2013 8:03:58 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: PLMerite

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.


53 posted on 10/23/2013 8:18:01 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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.


54 posted on 10/23/2013 8:20:49 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Eric_Robert_Rudolph#Arrest_and_guilty_plea


55 posted on 10/23/2013 8:28:09 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Kartographer

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.


56 posted on 10/23/2013 11:39:45 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Kartographer

Much of my stores are dehydrated. Boiling water makes no smell.


57 posted on 10/24/2013 2:58:41 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the Libs say we are.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

The blue book will finish the kindle free run of the trilogy next week, glad you are enjoying my stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Enemies-Reconquista-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B0050K0GD6/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1382581873&sr=1-4&keywords=matthew+bracken


58 posted on 10/24/2013 4:37:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kartographer

Heard the same thing about cigarette smoke smell - anyone have info on that?


59 posted on 10/24/2013 5:02:50 AM PDT by LadyBuck (If your name isn't on a list already, you should be ashamed.)
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To: Kartographer

They’ll hear a generator for a mile, too, unless you muffle it.


60 posted on 10/24/2013 6:12:03 AM PDT by DBrow
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