re: How Long Could You Survive

Indefinitely.

Honestly, if I don't have to worry about other people, my life would barely change.

Biggest thing is there would be fewer people here to frick with...

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What are you going to do after you butcher it? How are you going to keep it from spoiling?

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soak it in Dale's

I guarantee I'll survive the rest of my life

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I feel like I could make it a few weeks for sure, but once all the deer and squirrels are gone I honestly don’t know what I’d do. Hopefully my gardening skills would improve quickly.

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It’d be weird to have to go days without tigerdroppings and internet porno

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Little twist to the usual apocalypse threads. If an event happened that forced everyone to live “off grid”, how long could you make it? In this scenario other people are not a threat. This is strictly you surviving by your own sheer will.

I feel like I could make it a few weeks for sure, but once all the deer and squirrels are gone I honestly don’t know what I’d do. Hopefully my gardening skills would improve quickly.

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I feel like I could carve out a living in south Louisiana for the rest of my life. There is enough protein here to go a long way all year long. With that said I'd probably die of malaria. Damn mosquitoes would get me.

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humans would break every law ever written regarding deer. Traps, fires, piano wire etc. population would be decimated

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Just sounds like life in southern MS. The deer that survive down here are like damn ninjas not like those northern deer that just walk around through neighborhoods and along road sides.

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For those saying “a long time, I have deer/cattle/pig”. What are you going to do after you butcher it? How are you going to keep it from spoiling? There’s no electricity. No freezers. Salt cure? Meat will go fast if you’re killing one for every meal. What about when you’re on day three and haven’t been able to harvest a kill and your family is noticeably hungry? For those with a well, how are you going to run your pump? No gas/electric for cooking. Build a fire outside? What about when it’s rained for 2 days straight. How many have an actual wood burning fireplace for the winter?

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Small game and fish would be the way to go if you're on a big enough tract of land. Large game during the winter when the meat will last longer.

The rest of your issues are solvable. I'm sure some people have the know-how to fashion a handpump for their water well. We have a pond large enough to supply water along with a few springs on the property. A wood burning fireplace can be made even if you don't already have one. If someone is smart enough to make it to winter, they are smart enough to have a stockpile of firewood in a dry place so the rain won't matter.

Before I started watching alone, I would’ve thought all you would need was a fishing pole to survive, but it’s just not that easy

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forced everyone to live “off grid”

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other people are not a threat

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Well, depending on the time of year this scenario begins I could make it quite a while.

If, say the scenario begins during late winter/early spring and I have time to do all that is needed to survive a winter I would be pretty good to go.

If the scenario begins mid-winter and I had zero time to prepare not as long. I may have enough dried food, water, etc. to carry about 60-90 days at any given time but that wouldn't necessarily carry time in a complete "off the grid" scenario. With partial rations and a good kill here and there I would probably be ok.

One question I have, in this scenario of yours do I get books? Not "how to survive books" but books to read to occupy time. It is my dream to have an off the grid cabin in the winter mountains somewhere that I can go to a read for weeks at a time. This seems like a scenario close to that. My dream cabin has solar to run a small fridge/freezer but is otherwise rustic. Well, ok it also has a toilet - I crap in the woods enough during elk season, I wouldn't want to do that full-time.

I am too old and sickly, wouldn’t last a month.(2/4 weeks of the last month was hospitalized, twice)

I would make a good guard for alerts and administration but be poor off alone even in a “safe” apocalyptic world.