[Misc] In apocalyptic scenario... how long could your household survive without leaving the home?

Mustafa II · 2025-03-05T18:26:06+0000

An apocalyptic event has occurred. Your gas, water and electric has been cut off. You cannot leave your front door, because you might die. You can however access a private garden area for a short time.

How long could your household survive using only what you currently have available to you? What would be your strategy?

Tom Hark Preston Park · 2025-03-05T18:27:13+0000

Bye bye thread :bigwave:

Lenny Rider · 2025-03-05T18:27:38+0000

I’m just going down to my chapel of rest to cheer myself up

Steady on old boy, this is a little deep for a Wednesday evening

Wrong-Direction · 2025-03-05T18:28:29+0000

First thing to do is fill the bath up before the water goes off

AmexRuislip · 2025-03-05T18:29:12+0000

Mustafa II said:
An apocalyptic event has occurred. Your gas, water and electric has been cut off. You cannot leave your front door, because you might die. You can however access a private garden area for a short time.

How long could your household survive using only what you currently have available to you? What would be your strategy?

Already way ahead of you on this one.
I've built a bomb shelter on our allotment.
So come the day the balloon goes up and we see Jehovas Witness mutants, we'll be onwards to our plot and self sufficient

JamesAndTheGiantHead · 2025-03-05T18:30:59+0000

Would you want to survive for more than a week is the more appropriate question.

Anyone that’s seen Threads knows the answer to that one.

dazzer6666 · 2025-03-05T18:36:47+0000

Wouldn’t want to survive very long after such an event, so would enjoy what we have (particularly the booze) and wait for the inevitable

Eeyore · 2025-03-05T18:42:24+0000

How is someone going to survive if there is no water ? This isn't a question of choice.

The answer is for as long as the body can go without water. Most households would only have what is in the tap, or maybe a couple of bottles in the fridge. So it's the same for everyone.

PILTDOWN MAN · 2025-03-05T18:44:24+0000

Mustafa II said:
An apocalyptic event has occurred. Your gas, water and electric has been cut off. You cannot leave your front door, because you might die. You can however access a private garden area for a short time.

How long could your household survive using only what you currently have available to you? What would be your strategy?

Got a diesel generator 1000 litres of heating oil which the generator works off. 1000 sheep in the fields near to the house. There's a well next door.

All good I have a few packets of tablets take them eat a sheep and die.

Mustafa II · 2025-03-05T18:46:11+0000

I reckon I've got about 3 months of food (rationed) and about 2 weeks of water stored.

Obviously I'd eat things in order of when they expire - so probably means freezer & fridge food first. Got a lot of tinned and cupboard stuff, that would see me through a few months I reckon.

From the start, I would be harvesting rain water. I'd also save what is remaining in my toilet cistern.

I'd consider making a fire pit in the living room, and ventilating it out the window, for heat and cooking, and possibly distilling my piss.

I give myself 2 months.

Mustafa II · 2025-03-05T18:48:08+0000

Eeyore said:
How is someone going to survive if there is no water ? This isn't a question of choice.

The answer is for as long as the body can go without water. Most households would only have what is in the tap, or maybe a couple of bottles in the fridge. So it's the same for everyone.

Rain, piss, atmosphere. Depends how creative you are.

Eeyore · 2025-03-05T18:49:54+0000

Mustafa II said:
Rain, piss, atmosphere. Depends how creative you are.

It'd be difficult to drink rain when you can't leave the house and it wouldn't be enough. And you couldn't drink your own wee as you are simply recycling body matter and it wouldn't be enough anyway.

This is getting silly now

Balders · 2025-03-05T18:52:56+0000

In the event that it happens, would I still be able to access NSC to get sage advice and to see how everybody else is doing?

Chicken Run · 2025-03-05T18:55:44+0000

Mustafa II said:
An apocalyptic event has occurred. Your gas, water and electric has been cut off. You cannot leave your front door, because you might die. You can however access a private garden area for a short time.

How long could your household survive using only what you currently have available to you? What would be your strategy?

Indefinitely, I have only this week completed one of these !

dazzer6666 · 2025-03-05T19:00:32+0000

Eeyore said:
How is someone going to survive if there is no water ? This isn't a question of choice.

The answer is for as long as the body can go without water. Most households would only have what is in the tap, or maybe a couple of bottles in the fridge. So it's the same for everyone.

What about the big bloody water tank in the loft ?

Herr Tubthumper · 2025-03-05T19:05:15+0000

Mustafa II said:
An apocalyptic event has occurred. Your gas, water and electric has been cut off. You cannot leave your front door, because you might die. You can however access a private garden area for a short time.

How long could your household survive using only what you currently have available to you? What would be your strategy?

I’m getting bored of these Labour/Kier Starmer threads.

Elbow750 · 2025-03-05T19:05:38+0000

dazzer6666 said:
What about the big bloody water tank in the loft ?

Sadly ripped out years ago when upgrading my plumbing...

bluenitsuj · 2025-03-05T19:15:44+0000

What if we are all at Wembley watching the final?

Pavilionaire · 2025-03-05T19:16:53+0000

This brings to mind one of Alan Partridge's phone-in discussions: "How long could you survive if you just ate crisps?"

Elbow750 · 2025-03-05T19:25:38+0000

I'll bite.

Food, I could last 3 - 4 weeks maybe 2 - 3 months if rationed. I grow limited stuff in the garden, a few strawberries, tomatoes and lots of herbs. I have an allotment but rules say I can't go there. If summer, I can sow seeds, dig up lawn and grow veggies.
Electricity. I have solar panels and a battery, although it would need hot wiring as It goes through the official 'mains' at the moment, but if needs must then I'm sure it could be done. I have microwave and induction hobs so cooking fine. Hot water by Quooker.
Heating, I have loads of timber and some logs. Cold in winter but we could survive many months.
So its down to water. My house is on the site of an old Brewery, so I need to dig a well. Tough, but it could be done.
Sewage. - chuck it over the back wall/ compost it to grow more food?
Clothing / furniture/ tools/ screws - probably the rest of my life.
Soap / Toothpaste etc - many months.
Medication. Hmm I have a regular prescription and Mrs Elbow needs her HRT patches. Probably 6 - 9 months before problems become serious.

Big problem is the dog (40kg of Golden Retriever). Once its food is used up then its her or me. Who is going to eat who

.. Shh, don't tell the kids. !!
My tortoise would probably out live us all by 70 years. 90 years old already and perfectly adapted to scrabbling around in the garden and hibernating through harsh winters..

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