longy wrote:so much ignorance here. If shtf, nobody's going to be working at the water plant or the power plant. There will be no pumps to get the water up into the water towers, so no water pressure. If you pee into the drain, it will stink to HIGH heaven unless you waste a lot of water washing it away. Just arrange something to hide you while you use a back yard latrine. Have some quicklime to kill the stink. The dirt you've dug from the trench is used to cover things after you're done your thing. Bugging in aint gonna work. There will be no water, so people in towns and cities will be forced to leave and the farms, ranches and small towns is where they will be headed. Only 3% of the population lives on farms and ranches, so you'll be outnumbered by 30 to 1. So you'll have to bug out, also. The advantage is you dont have to go far, if you're already out there. Just to your concealed dugout. All above ground buildings, vehicles, etc, will be searched, again and again, by desperate, well armed people, coming thru at various times. Packs of starving dogs will be roaming, dead bodies every where, with dogs learning to consider you to be FOOD, and spreading diseases like wildfire. if you have food or water, dogs will smell it and hang around your place. People will notice. You need a well concealed, very small dugout shelter, with lots of survival info on a kindle reader, a solar charger and lots of sedatives. Just stay there during daylight hours, for at least 6 months. Cache at least that much grain, legumes, powdered milk, Crisco, salt, and honey. Have non=hybrid seeds and know how to use sprouts.
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or maybe not zantra??? The OP asked about bugging in - that does not automatically mean ZOMGWAFFLE EOTWAWKI WOLVERINES!!! .... Being prepared for zombies means being prepared for anything. A few days bug in for a storm, a riot, a flood... all different but all far more viable prospects I am pretty sure the OP has been well answered, by people who A know what they are talking about (like me) and be people who dont act like douchey teens. Go to the intro section - follow steps -