it's the end of the world as we know it

[mimesere]

Things I have learned about how to survive the apocalypse, assuming I make it past the initial apocalyptic event:

1) Go to Hoover Dam powered areas. Mostly automated power generation. At least until the tiny mollusks kill it. Still though, that's a year. Long enough to scavenge and learn other things.
2) Do not become fond of highly bred dogs.
3) Scavenge grocery stores early.
4) within a year or so, plants start taking over civilization and crumbling buildings. OH APOCALYPSES. HOW SO AWESOME. Within 5 years = nada.
5) So Cal will be taken out by wildfires. Like always.
6) Avoid places with large zoos. Escondido = right out.
7) Feral dogs are a danger.
8) Some cities will be under water.

So, my plan for the apocalypse is essentially to pick people up and head to Vegas/Lake Mead to scavenge. And then probably up north where there's more fresh water and a more hospitable climate. What I'm now trying to decide is if it is easier to maintain a massive but existing infrastructure or to try to construct a new, small-scale one.

Poor Manhattan. It totally gets a raw deal apocalyptically. I suppose that's what one gets for being an island.

eta: Dear History Channel, what is this bullshit no remnants thing? HELLO, DID YOU NOT CONSULT ANY ARCHAEOLOGISTS?

eta2: The scottish engineer is hilaaaaaaarious.

eta3: dude. History Channel. THIS IS BAD RESEARCH. I mean, seriously, talk to an archaeologist once in a while!

eta4: i really kind of wish this had been a Discovery Channel show instead. Then it would have higher production values and probably better science. But maybe no scottish engineer.

eta5: HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SOME AWFUL, HISTRIONIC "SCIENCE." IT WAS "ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!?" LEVELS OF BAD SCIENCE.

Comments

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thinks about these things. I watched The Death of Suburbia this summer and now I can't stop worrying about contingency plans. And cozying up to all my organic farmer friends who know how to make solar ovens.

The History Channel is just embarrassing. I only watch XY Factor or The History of Sex, because then at least there are badly researched boobs.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I was so excited for Life Without People! And then it...wasn't great. Which was sad. But it did have some interesting stuff at the beginning. But yeah, I spend an awful lot of time pondering what to do in case of apocalypse.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Heee, wild fires aside (which is a always) we are definitely better off on the West Coast in an event of the apocalypse.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

It's so true! Though San Francisco is not the best place to ride it out.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who spends way too much time figuring out how they'd survive an apocalypse. My chief fear, actually, is that the social anarchy would result in lots of macho dickheads beating the shit out of weak people like me. The only useful survival skill I possess is cookery -- would that be enough to keep me alive?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

The social anarchy is definitely a factor! That is why it is important to me to gather up other people. I am a big believer in groups.

er. and weaponry. And I think cookery would be enough!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, when the apocalypse comes, I'm going to stand behind you. (:

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Is this assuming a "natural" apocalypse, rather than, say, zombie or martian attack?

I am not noticing any plans to deal with 40,000-year-old partially-frozen alien-possessed mammoths, which is why I ask.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

The bare bones of the plan are for any apocalyptic scenario. There are specific details depending on the situation which results in the end of the world.

*nuzzles*

[vampyreranger.livejournal.com]

Lol! History channel cracks me up.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Such baaaaad research. omg.

[donella.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of how I described Cloverfield to a friend.

'It's like an instructional film on what NOT to do in the event of an apocalypse!'

Seriously. That movie kicked ass, but the characters were so STUPID.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I always wonder why people in horror movies have never *seen* a horror movie and act accordingly.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

I wanted more of the Scots engineer! I thought the section on the evacuated Ukrainian city was cool.

The last few months the media has given one depiction of the destruction of New York City after another. Stop picking on my city, please.

Part of the problem is being an island and a lot of the rest is having honeycombed its foundations with subway tunnels held up by metal girders. By the standards of the last bit, much of Midtown would sink once the girders give out, especially around Grand Central Station.

The wolf-dogs hunting near the end was an especially cheesy computer animation. Geez.