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In reply to the discussion: How to survive the coming Apocalypse when your are too poor to "prep"...? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)82. It's not dying in a big one that worries sensible people, tho.
After all, a bullet for each head really has not been a viable solution for people in Puerto Rico.
Remember those first two weeks with desperate people -- most of whom had houses that were still standing and dry -- wading around looking for food, medicine, drinkable water? Putting "help" signs on their roofs?
What those pictures did not show were the Puerto Ricans who were in their homes with adequate food, water, and medication. THOSE people were not only taking care of themselves and grandma, but they were not using up scarce supplies desperately needed by others who had lost everything.
THAT's what we're talking about.
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How to survive the coming Apocalypse when your are too poor to "prep"...? [View all]
FirstLight
May 2018
OP
I'm pretty sure those gun nuts with the arsenals in their basements pay for all of that
Aristus
May 2018
#1
to be fair, credit card debt is going to be pretty meaningless during the Apocalypse
0rganism
May 2018
#3
Me either. I think the right keeps screaming "race war" to rile up their dumbest, and NO we are
anneboleyn
May 2018
#9
Also, buy a most recent set of Britannica. Good long-term reading given no internet.
kairos12
Jun 2018
#99
Have no intention of trying to survive. Not going to sleep with one eye open so I can
Hoyt
May 2018
#25
That is smart, store some bottled water there too, it won't taste as fresh in 10 or 20 years but
braddy
Jun 2018
#102
I'm seeing some good answers, I would check thrift stores now for supplies you think you may need
ck4829
May 2018
#50
How to survive the coming Apocalypse when your are too poor to "prep". ? I'm from Alabama lol .....
stonecutter357
May 2018
#55
I have no desire to survive an apocalypse anyway. We keep cash and money in the house
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#95
I was always a prepper, and as a young man who could never leave my emergency car food alone
braddy
Jun 2018
#101
Ugh. Concentrate on the short period first... a few days to a couple of weeks.
fleabiscuit
Jun 2018
#103