[pabianice]

Some are moving to ex-USAF missile silos.

[raybbr]

Just out of curiosity: Does anyone ever get the New Yorker cartoons? Either they are to nuanced for me or they are simply the essence of banality.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Do they really want to survive and emerge in a world where they’ll have to do their own cooking and laundry?

[lurk]

In the end, the rich are no safer than the rest of us. They just die in a different time and place.

As it is said, he who dies with the most toys, still dies.

[blackbetty59]

I read that article early this morning. The first thing I noticed was that these ultra-liberal rich folks were planning on escaping the “urban folks”. They are buying up areas as far away from their urban pets as they can get. If they loved their urbans as much as they claim to love them, why wouldn’t they be unafraid to survive the apocalypse with them? Instead, they are planning their safe-havens in deplorable zones. Hypocrites.

[OpusatFR]

All of them need to read A Canticle for Leibowitz.

The emerging elite never made it past the howling mobs who blamed them for the apocalypse.

[Jack Hydrazine]

What do they know that the rest of don’t?

[Billthedrill]

Always healthy to be mindful of options in the case of social inconveniences, so I won't be too eager to ascribe it to urban angst. Although, it is a little amusing to see urbanites so rattled by a Presidential election that did not go their way that they are thinking in terms of skedaddling to New Zealand. What they'd be like in a real emergency is a little sad to contemplate.

It does alarm me a little as a rural dweller to envision a small swarm of the highly privileged bringing their problems with them as they descend upon remote luxury ranches and expect to ride it all out. That's likely to get ugly, and not in the way of zombie hordes, but in the way of someone who can't wire a light switch finding out that the maintenance man is 2000 miles away and dead.

But it's good to have a hole, I guess, even if it's only for the peace of mind. It's better to have skills and practical plans, one of which is not to trust that you'll have enough infrastructure left to fly a private aircraft to New Zealand when the mobs are filling the streets in Manhattan or San Jose. A hedge fund manager on a motorcycle with an AR he doesn't know how to use trying to make it across broken country to a cabin in the sticks is only slightly more practical. It's funnier, though.

[discostu]

Moving to a missile silo as prep is making a kind of strange bet. We know once the silos were targeted by multiple warheads, generally first strike ones trying to knock out the retaliation force. And these folks are better all those missiles will get different targets if something bad happens. Seems to me kind of the opposite of prepping.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping list

from The New Yorker Magazine (Urban Yuppie ?) :
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich

Aside from some pretty ridiculous scenarios, and flight lans to New Zealand,
there are some good nuggets of information and preparation buried within this article.

[taxcontrol]

In the pepper mindset, you must first understand that you are already in the act of dying. The trick is to put off dying as long as possible.

You can die from a gunshot in 3 seconds
One can suffocate in 3 min
Freeze to death in 30 min
Dehydrate in 3 days
Starve in 30 days

Long term food prep does you no good if you have not taken care of that water supply, or shelter, etc.

[AZ .44 MAG]

I own one near Tucson, Arizona and I am selling it.

FRmail me if anyone is interested.

[dsc]

“He noted the vulnerabilities exposed by the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee”

When did that become a fact?