Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

[fightingquaker13]

Well, MOST people die.  Not everyone.

And it did inspire me to lay in a few more canned goods .

Gotta say this sort of thing is a bit sobering (read deppressing as hell) but its why I don't have a real bug out plan beyond a packed bag. Where the hell are you going to go in a stupidly over populated South Florida? Unless you have an ocean going sail boat (that survives whatever the"event" is) you are stuck where you are. I have a month's worth of food, water and fuel and a fair few rounds of ammo to survive in place but I do not like my chances if SHTF in a serious TEOTWAWKI scenario. I also am not paranoid enough to move somewhere where I would stand a better chance because I don't really fancy living in Eastern Montana or somewhere like that (the restaraunts suck for one thing and its hard to make a living).   I'll take my chances where I am, but will probaly live just long enough to regret it  if things do get seriosuly ugly.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

 Your a real optimist aren't you ?  

[Badgersmilk]

Quaker, If you head north a little ways you can QUICKLY get yourself into a hiding place even you wont be able to find yourself in!  Georgia is well known for its "backwoods".  I've heard tale of such places in Florida too.  I've already come accross thousands of acers of THICK, THICK, F'n THICK woods here in SC in just a few weeks I've been here.  Good to hide in, EASY to make shelter in, lots of clean water, but food?  Not much to hunt on the east side of this state.

Can you eat camp-fire roasted Zombie?  

We just got back from the book store with the book, and a copy of "Combat Survival" - a UK magazine, LOTS of interesting stuff in it.  

[PegLeg45]

Quaker, If you head north a little ways you can QUICKLY get yourself into a hiding place even you wont be able to find yourself in!  Georgia is well known for its "backwoods".  I've heard tale of such places in Florida too.  I've already come accross thousands of acers of THICK, THICK, F'n THICK woods here in SC in just a few weeks I've been here.  Good to hide in, EASY to make shelter in, lots of clean water, but food?  Not much to hunt on the east side of this state.

Can you eat camp-fire roasted Zombie?  

We just got back from the book store with the book, and a copy of "Combat Survival" - a UK magazine, LOTS of interesting stuff in it.  

Yep......there are plenty of places in the southeastern corner that still hide moonshine stills, dopers, and a few bodies that will never be found.....it's mostly all piney woods and/or swamp from I-75 east and I-16 south....with a few towns thrown in.

[Badgersmilk]

OMG, somebody could have said how slow this book is...  71 pages into it, and a better author could have had this covered in 2 pages...  OK, if you like reading about minute details of scenary and pushing a shopping buggy around  .

May as well keep reading, it can only get better!

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[tombogan03884]

OMG, somebody could have said how slow this book is...  71 pages into it, and a better author could have had this covered in 2 pages...  OK, if you like reading about minute details of scenary and pushing a shopping buggy around  .

May as well keep reading, it can only get better!

Darn Russians write like that to. Thanks for the warning . I think I'll skip that one.   

[1911 Junkie]

Oh yeah, it starts slow.

It does get better.

[bestseller92]

It should inspire folks to get at least 1 FULL box of ammo as well 

The events in the book take place several years after the catastrophic events that led to the destruction of the earth and human society.  The man (whose name we never learn) may well have had more ammo when that happened, though clearly he did not have enough.

[Badgersmilk]

They dont even say exactly what ever happened do they?!?  So far they just talk about burnt tree's, but plenty of buildings still standing and fine, roads seem fine, a people made it, for all the time spent on scenery he sure leaves a lot to be desired.   I'm still trying to make myself pick it up again.  Guess I'll go do that now.

What planet is this taking place on?!?  Lots of talk about pushing a shopping buggy for miles through the woods!  I have yet to see a woods on this planet where that's feasible. 

[Pathfinder]

Yep......there are plenty of places in the southeastern corner that still hide moonshine stills, dopers, and a few bodies that will never be found.....it's mostly all piney woods and/or swamp from I-75 east and I-16 south....with a few towns thrown in.

I once interrupted a drug deal in Valdosta, right along the interstate, when my brother and I drove down to FL for Christmas with my Dad.

2AM, I was driving, tired, finishing my driving stint, saw florescents off the highway at an interchange. Pulled off and into the almost abandoned parking lot of a restaurant, closed for the night. One other car, by the front of the restuaraant, driver's door, hood and trunk open, a beater. I pulled into a corner of the parking lot under a light, and we got out (brother, his wife and mine, and I) and stretched our legs. At this point I noticed simultaneously 2 things - a car down the road to the west through the trees - lights on but not moving. And a scruffy looking scrawny-assed hairy dude coming from behind the restaurant who started moving very fast when he saw us.

I yelled at everyone to get into the car, and of course the girls are saying - not so fast, we're still stretching, etc. - at which point I am shoving people into the car. The scrawny-assed guy was faster - closed all open items and drove off at break-neck speed eastbound. The headlights down the road went after him - also at high speed, and a 3rd car I had NOT seen right outside the parking lot threw a louie and took off at high speed as well. My brother was driving, and at this point understood exactly what was going on and he was doing 80 when we hit the bottom of the on-ramp to the interstate.

I give FQ 30 minutes of life when he bugs out on foot across the GA border. Unless he knows how to squeel like a pig!!        (another film reference, anyone?)