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

[Mackenzie]

What day of the week would the apocalypse happen? if it was a Thursday afternoon that'd be dead handy, I get the pub stocked up for the weekend on a Thursday. We'd be able to last for ages.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I expect the cat would and eat me.

 

[Justice]

Other humans would be the biggest threat

 

[Brighton Mackem]

l’ll be down the Winchester waiting for it to all blow over

 

[Questions]

I would eat my wife if I had too, followed by my two dogs but I couldn’t eat my 27 year old son. He’s an athlete and has no meat on him.
Got a few weeks dog food after I’d eaten my wife

 

[Pavilionaire]

If a tunnel system can be quickly established between properties, then maybe a barter system could follow.

If so, my household has a surplus of handbags and ladies shoes that I'd be willing to trade for Indian Tonic Water.

 

[WATFORD zero]

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 sorry but this is beyond stupid. What would be your strategy ?

Given the most you can live without water is approx 3 days, unless you happen to have a well in 'this private garden area' it'll be three days plus the number of bottles of water you've got when this event occurred, so 99% of people will probably be dead within the week

 

[Mustafa II]

Given the most you can live without water is approx 3 days, unless you happen to have a well in 'this private garden area' it'll be three days plus the number of bottles of water you've got when this event occurred, so 99% of people will probably be dead within the week

I have around 20 litres of bottled water. About 8 litres in my toilet cistern as a backup. Piss is 95% water - If I distilled this, I could get a litre or two a day out of it I reckon. Then there is of course rainwater harvesting. Also got about 100 diet cokes which I could use for hydration.

That's a few months right there - unless I really get to grips with the rainwater harvesting.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

f***ing hell.

I'd make sure I had a nice hat to wear so I could increase my chances
of getting me hands a couple of birds later, for repopulation purposes.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm sorry but this is beyond stupid. What would be your strategy ?

Given the most you can live without water is approx 3 days, unless you happen to have a well in 'this private garden area' it'll be three days plus the number of bottles of water you've got when this event occurred, so 99% of people will probably be dead within the week

It's a secret garden
that leads into Narnia.

Bosh. Sorted!

 

[drew]

About 2 months but I'd be effing sick of pasta!!

 

[drew]

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

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You say completed but there seems to be missing bits of concrete on one side?

 

[drew]

Other humans would be the biggest threat

Other humans could be a source of nutrition!

 

[Mustafa II]

About 2 months but I'd be effing sick of pasta!!

How would you cook the pasta?

 

[WATFORD zero]

It's a secret garden
that leads into Narnia.

Bosh. Sorted!

You H, like me, are from an age when being stupid was something to be ashamed of, and stupid people would try to hide their stupidity and would certainly avoid bringing attention to it.

At what point did it change so that stupid people can celebrate the fact they are thick as shit by shouting loudly everywhere they go (on the street, in shops, pubs, on phones and face to face) the louder, the better. I walk around these days being forced to listen to the most inane, thickest shits shouting about every aspect of their pathetic meaningless existence.

And if that's not enough, really stupid people can then broadcast really stupid things into the digital ether.

I do worry for the next generations.

And relax ........

 

[Justice]

Other humans could be a source of nutrition!

Yuk

 

[dazzer6666]

I have around 20 litres of bottled water. About 8 litres in my toilet cistern as a backup. Piss is 95% water - If I distilled this, I could get a litre or two a day out of it I reckon. Then there is of course rainwater harvesting. Also got about 100 diet cokes which I could use for hydration.

That's a few months right there - unless I really get to grips with the rainwater harvesting.

You failed to define the apocolyptic event. If it was a nuclear explosion you’re not going to last long drinking harvested rainwater

 

[Change at Barnham]

Could we somehow have SkySports and NSC available?
Perhaps with the help of a generator?

 

[drew]

How would you cook the pasta?

With a little bit of bath water each time which I was filling at the time of the apocalyptic event! Not ideal but needs must as they say!

 

[zefarelly]

Youd have to ask the dog

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

funny you mention this . . . . There is an Anderson shelter on ours . . . .not on our plot, but close . . . Having inspected it, It is still in a far more robust and resiliant condition then most things built since it was.

I'd love to get my hands on it, restore it and use it as a store. Hopefully nothing else!