>>7942
not sure about design awards, but relying on a piece of gear like this is pretty much suicide. Tent: whatever is laying around that can cover you, or dig a hole. Life raft: get a real life raft if you need to deploy in a hurry, otherwise whatever is laying around that will float. Water purifier: if you don't know how to filter/purify water, you aren't going to survive anyway. Storage container: a plastic tote.

This is a single, bulky piece of gear that may or may not do as well as the multiple items it's designed to replace. Multiple items are easier to fit into existing kits and or/packs. I wouldn't waste my money on anything like this

circle jerk is a yes...and yeah, these over-complicated devices always fail in the wild. A decent tarp, some cord, and some poles and you have shelter and stretcher. Water filter...i don't even want to THINK about a stretcher being converted into a water filter. Unhealthy as fuck.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

pyro zombies.

The bugle plant is an anti inflammatory when rubbed on the wound
Squeezing a fig wort will give you an anti bacterial juice, That also helps seal a wound.
Catnip can treat eczema, it can be boiled into a tea where it has sedative properties as well. You can also smoke the stuff, Doesn't taste too nice though.
Aloe vera can be used on burns and insect bites as a numbing agent, And can be eaten or drink for a sedative effect.
allspice can alleviate pain on corns and in some cases can actually reduce there size.
silver birch can cure skin conditions.

There's a shit load of medicines just waiting for you go rub yourself in. So get out there and start humping bushes

Burn pain relief- baking soda and water, mix to a paste and apply.
Cough relief- honey, lemon, whiskey. Cook into candy for lozenge or drink for that.

No-one eats our chicks... and lives!

Get them drunk.

>>10074

1 free internetz for you sire.

>>10067

We fight.

Hijack and learn about their technology, eventually putting it to use in a war against them. Then, I'd find their home planet and start an alliance whose goal is to annihilate the alien threat once and for all.

We could have had tea and cookies on the lawn too. Shame.

>>9770
I noticed that too

hahahaha. "hey, heres a photo of my product in axtion!!!" of screen "mommy, can I have a bandaid?"

>>9762

> Axe(quality wood handle), Hatchet(wood handle, wire cutter, and hammer poll), Saw(24"-30" is about perfect), 5" bladed knife with a 1/4" spine and secure sheath, multitool(preferably one with screwdrivers and a wrench/pliars), and a machete.

i would also recommend a good kukri to pair off with your machete.

Also recommending a sturdy khukri. I got mine made for cheap by Kashmiri blacksmiths. They use leftover steel from the leaf springs of junked cars to make the blades and they are rugged as fuck. I never feel bad about beating it up and I don't feel like I need to treat it like some precious for-show tool.

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

Realistically speaking

>Approximate size: 8ft x 20ft
>Walls: Sheet metal exterior, plywood interior, some sort of insulation in between
>Floor: Gravel/pebbles/sand (for leveling) with wood floor. If I could obtain some carpet I'd lay it down
>Roof: Metal panels like in OPs pic
>Location: ina woods obviously, about 50 feet from a stream or 100 ft from a river, no large trees nearby
>Indoor furniture: bed, couch, table, chair, wood stove, storage space such as dressers/cabinets, ham radio, some lights, small window(s)
>Outdoor furniture: Outhouse, fire pit, bicycle generator

>>10003
Oh, and a cover able hole to act as a cellar

>>7478

Holy shit I wrote that a while ago. Anywho, I've actually been working towards this. Currently have a 10 acre area with nothing but trees and a creek through it. About half way there on.22 ammo, switched the 10/22 for savage mk 1, got about 2000 7.62x39 so only 1000 for each but I can only do so much.
Working on getting a shipping container and some lumber to start the house. Not going for cob yet, maybe later.

Under this "no prep" limitation?

Hopefully I can get my hands on a good axe, adze, a good saw, about a 30x30 sheet of tyvek, and 1500-2000 feet of flexible pipe.

I'd center the home around a rocket mass heater, easy to build if you know what your doing from straw, clay, and other wild found materials. This system heats on very little wood, and more importantly, by the time the smoke reaches the end of the heater and goes out the side of the house, the ash has settled and all that comes out is steam, which quickly dissipates.

My bed platform will be built on one side of this unit, a wooden water trough on the other...I love being clean, and I shall not give up frequent bathing for the apocalypse.

The house itself will just be a single room, dome shaped, from wood, smoothed out, covered with the tyvek, and then covered with six inches of dirt, with a layer of leafmold or grass on top.

This will be situated about a quarter mile away from a local stream, with the end of the pipe hidden under some rocks, and buried all the way down hill to the house.

I actually know a few places up in the hills where there are old resources in place, including much of the pipe I would need to salvage, for this to be feasible. As long as I could get to the right area, with the tools, It wouldn't be an issue.

Wood burning stove or fireplace, comfy pine straw bed and furniture, water piped in from the hotspring a little ways off from the cabin. Booby taps everywhere, system of tunnels around the property to the caves. Ammo and guns obviously. Storage freezer for meat and the weed I grow in the summer. Hand crank radio and usb charger for ds, all the games and movies I can find. Lube for anal sex with my girlfriend.

Economic Collapse is the most likely and afterwards we would get a system that actually worked so that would be cool.

Zombies would be interesting and sickeningly kinda fun but I would be fucking scared to become one.

My personal vote is for Hell to open up because then the Angels and the ascended alien species would come down and fight the demons. It would be so badass you wouldn't even believe it. And then once the Angels won, (because seriously, they've got God on their side) we would ourselves become an ascended race of interdimensional beings yo!

Definitely not zombies, is anyone else fucking sick of zombies?

>>9934

Nope

I imagine the world going up in fire like in a Wagnerian opera. No end-time scenario is as dramatic or as poetic as manmade warfare.
The first World War approaches being a century old. That war and the subsequent one changed warfare and civilization, along with the state of the human race, forever. It was a war for the fate of the species and of the planet, and it ended with the creation of a weapon capable of annihilating all that is.

Imagine how epic the third and last World War would be.

>>10026
we're in the third world war, brother. it's called overpopulation.

Can't call anyone, phone lines out. Consider military interception of radio signals as well. Internet/Radio/Phone out. Electricity out. Forget calling your friends/family in this little plan, instead either make detailed rendezvous points beforehand or forget them when you need to leave and hope you see them someday, though you may not. Sorry.

You need to buy and otherwise acquire those provisions BEFORE shit hits the fan, if at all possible. It's entirely in the realm of possibility due to electrical outage or general economic downfall that money is not viable anymore. Those goods will be better for bartering.

Survival books, like the one my SO and I have, detail many a great strategy and many important pieces of information about which plants are edible and how to trap, but remember; a great deal of traps can't be made without tools, and a book can be ruined by a drop in the river or a night in the rain. Use logic. Go back to instincts. Many of the suggestions in the books you will read will in fact remind you to "remember this taste and/or smell." Why? Because you don't want to be stranded without the knowledge because of damaged paper.

Mountains are not fertile, and harbor dangerous landscape with falling rock and debris. People are under the impression that the mountain ranges and forests on them will be a source of a great deal of game. That game will be dangerous and the human is an advantageous omnivore. Your cravings for hamburgers and a resilient mountain style adventure may get you killed.

It will be ultimately more useful to remember and think logically that fertile land and all sources of life ultimately follow water, of course it pays to keep in mind human nature and the possibility of others. Don't think someone won't kill you for a drink of water or food, but a genuine humanitarian effort or negotiation can mean the difference between life and death, as a Rwandan genocide survivor has told me.

So ultimately, put the bowl down and think for a second buster. People lived a long ass time on this planet digging up worms to eat and scrapping every bit of food that could be foraged and uprooted from the ground. Best be getting over your idealistic pla…

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>>9872
well considering im not prepared that wouldnt be my what if scenario now would it? plans are perfect till you go to execute them anyways

>>9863
When the shtf, all that money you have saved up is going to be worth less than the paper it's printed on. Exchange it for gold asap

I'm a west-coaster going to college in the East Coast. I would honestly do my best to get home. First, if at all possible, I would contact home. I would try texting, email, faxes, left messages, calling, facebook, twitter, the works. I would withdraw whatever cash I could and scrounge up more, and get more transferred to me if possible. I'd grab a backpack from my room or the campus store, put in my solar generator, a portable hard drive, my trauma kit, cash, as many J's as I could possibly roll, a portable radio, batteries and chargers, lighters with the safeties removed, matches, a flint firestarter necklace, tempos, cigarettes, tissues, and TP, a small toiletries kit, some extra clothes, my passport and wallet, water purification tablets and my manual flashlight, airtight containers, and a tough knife. I'd then buy and throw in fishing line, bungee cord, paracord, a canvas tarp, and a sleeping bag.

>>10024
Heading out, I'd wear my rubber combat boots, black jeans, a belt, a tank top, a tee and a long sleeve, a denim jacket, and a hoodie tied around my waist. Looks ridiculous, but fuck it. Throw in gloves and black beanies made from that synthetic shell material they make.
I'd bring plenty of dense, high-calorie food and stick to old highways, railroads, and rivers. I'd use whatever transport was still available, leaving messages and sending letters when possible. I'd keep moving, and when possible, I'd buy bear spray, a Ruger 10/22 mark II handgun, and maybe a 10/22 takedown.

Were you ready for Sandy? Did your plans work?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/10/new-yorks-subway-may-not-survive-tropical-storm-nicole/
This from 2010. Oh dear. And you notice the New York section of Gizmodo is now down? Ohhhhh dear.

Hey i went through this derecho last summer. Shit was cray, i was in maryland (ft. washington, a DC suburb) visiting from South Carolina for a crab feast. Power was out for about a week; even the traffic lights didn't work. I was staying with my grandparents and i had to drive to Bowie to get ice from my uncles fire station for my Grandparents' insulin. One night there were gunshots and a police helicopter, and the only radio station we could get kept warning us about water shortages.

The storm fucked up a bunch of above ground power lines, and some places went without power for around two weeks, but it was back on where i was after one.

>>10020
Forgot to mention that it was record heat (high 90s Fahrenheit), and that gas was almost impossible to find in southern maryland because all the power was out, so none of the gas pumps worked.
nb

I just rode out Hurricane Sandy myself. It just went to show that having supplies and a plan in advance keeps you from wasting away.

Yaya!

>>8335
Hahaha, you keep the dirtbikes in the back of the pickup?

Would have moar stuff in inventory :'(

2 hours on /wooo/

I made it look like shit

>>6911

rolll

rollll

>>6911
the most epic roll of my life

rail

I live on the top of a hill, so if there was a big flood it would be an island. I think that would be pretty cool.

Me too actually, but I think if a big flood comes it will still fuck shit up. The last big flood in my area I remember looking outside and seeing deep water running down the street like a river, it didnt just wash away down the hill