Lets assume it goes Mad Max

[paigeoliver]

DrewKaree discussed his 72 hour emergency planning.

Now lets assume it is going to be worse than that. Lets assume it is going to go Mad Max, and you (having seen the first Mad Max film) know that it is gonna be "The Road Warrior" in a matter of months.

What kind of preparations do you make?

Unlike Drew's kit, this is a FOREVER preparation. There are some rules though, your first 50 gallons of gasoline are $10 a gallon, and the price doubles each 50 gallons afterwards. And you are limited to spending money that you might actually reasonably have.

My first move would be to fill the tanks on my motorhome (70 gallons), and overstock it with as many canned goods as possible, along with tools, ammunition, and so on. I would then TOW it with my Suburban out to some property owned by my relatives and stash it as deep in the woods as I could get it. I'd be sure and pick up a lot of fuel stabilizer as well, and I'd invest in a few solar cells to charge the 12 volt system in the RV.

Then I would go back to the city and accumulate as much gas and supplies as I could before everything fell completely apart. During that time I would weld ramplates all around my Suburban in every direction, just in case.

I would try to anticipate the complete collapse by a few weeks, and get out early, I don't want people trying to kill me for the fuel in my tanks if at all possible.

The reason I would stash the RV early on is so the tracks leading into the woods would get overgrown, hopefully allowing me to hide out the first six months until the cycle gangs and looters finally run out of fuel.

[Bones]

I would by beer, lot's of beer. Then I would coax over the motorcycle gangs to see if they had any biker sluts. Then I would get really drunk and party with the bikers and have sex with their sluts.

I would continue this until the beer ran out.

They would then execute me or accept me into their gang. If accepted, I would then hunt you down hiding in your overgrown RV and trash your scooter and turn your RV into my ---stingray--- love shack.

You would only be released once you confessed to liking plexi CP's and the bumps on the rear of arcade cabinets.

[jhanson]

I'd head for my parents' cabin in Maine.  Unless they're kayaking biker gangs, I could hide out on the island in the middle of the lake until winter when the lake freezes over.

If I was stuck here (Richmond, VA), I'd armor my car using all the leftover wood and metal from my various projects, make the front and rear of my car truly deadly by mounting all of the blades and stuff I could salvage from my antique tools on it, strap my sword to my back and handgun to my waist, and head for the Federal Reserve building.

[Havok]

I would go find the A Team, and we would make an indestructible mobile arcade, with armor plating and homemade potato turrets to defend against the Ultracade cult that would surely try and take over the world!

[Stingray]

I'd stay at home. I already live in the middle of the woods. I hope my gameboy has a full charge.

-S

[missioncontrol]

staying at home also.....

2 acres out in the boonies 


we still have electricity right???

[Stingray]

We don't need electricity. Always remember, fire bad.

-S

[missioncontrol]

fire don't get me on the forums

[Stingray]

Good point. I guess I'd better bet to work on that drunken squirrel powered generator.

-S

[Thenasty]

I'm going to Washington and push the Panic Nuke Button....Goodbye All 

[Stingray]

Somebody tie up TheNasty put him somewhere safe.

-S

[NoOne=NBA=]

I'm heading to the woods on this one too.
For some reason insane motorcycle gangs are really scared of trees.

[Sephroth57]

what is this mad max you all speak of

[Thenasty]

my list of most things that will be missed....

1. My Cabinet (it brought back my childhood, Good and bad times)

2. My best friend, even thou I abused him by shoving him into Dark Places occasionally, sometimes choke him till he vomits and making fun of his height being only 7.5 inches tall, the good times we had together like a good friend should have and you might have guess his name is "Dick" but I call him "Long John Silver" 

Would you *please* stop making every thread sexual? ---saint

[Stingray]

what is this mad max you all speak of

Unless you're joking, I'm gonna have to kick you in the butt.

-S

[RayB]

I suggest you folks view "The Omega Man" and "The Trigger Effect"

[Sephroth57]

what is this mad max you all speak of

Unless you're joking, I'm gonna have to kick you in the butt.

-S

all i know is it involves guys dressed in bondage outfits driving cars or something

[Stingray]

what is this mad max you all speak of

Unless you're joking, I'm gonna have to kick you in the butt.

-S

all i know is it involves guys dressed in bondage outfits driving cars or something

-S

[SirPoonga]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089530/

[SirPoonga]

I'd steal an electric car then, screw gas
Or use soy based fuel.

There's many alternative fuels, just not as cheap as gas.

[Sephroth57]

id make a music powered car, it will run off the sweet sounds of my acoustic guitar

[Stingray]

I'll build my squirrel-powered generator and charge Sir Poonga an exorbitant amount to recharge his electric car.

-S

[Zakk]

id make a music powered car, it will run off the sweet sounds of my acoustic guitar

Then you could be like the guy in the juicy fruit commercials.  We could drive up in our V8's and smash your acoustic guitar and leave you without vehicular power. 



"What's Mad Max" indeed! 

[Frosty]

Guns. Lots of guns.

[SirPoonga]

I'll build my squirrel-powered generator and charge Sir Poonga an exorbitant amount to recharge his electric car.

-S

You are thinking to small.  I'll move out to hoover dam

[Stingray]

Curses! Another insidious plot ruined.

-S

[PetitMorte]

Do what they caught that one guy doing...

He had a full sized van, like Arcadiac's, and he replaced most of the insides with a big plastic agricultural fertilizer tank... 5000 gallon or something.  He added an electric pump, and cut a hatch in the floor of the van.

Then he drove around to gas stations, pulled in over the tank-fill holes, opened up the hatch dropped a hose down the fill-hole and pumped out the gas from the station's tanks.

[Stingray]

Not that I endorse breaking the law at all, but that's actually pretty clever.

-S

[MaximRecoil]

Didn't Hank Williams Jr. already write the guidebook for this scenario, and set it to music for good measure?

[Tiger-Heli]

what is this mad max you all speak of

Durn kids !!!

[NoOne=NBA=]

If it goes Deliverance, I vote we send Sephroth out front to meet the Hillbillies--since he's probably never seen THAT one either.

I'll cover him with my bow from the Jeep.

[Arcadiac]

Do what they caught that one guy doing...

He had a full sized van, like Arcadiac's, and he replaced most of the insides with a big plastic agricultural fertilizer tank... 5000 gallon or something.

[daywane]

with my luck. I would get busted and then charged with transporting a bomb.

As far as if things get crazy around here.
I have a RV set up as a hunting lodge with 300 acres. 4 ponds, deer all over the place, wild Turkey, ( animal type) well maybe a gal of the drink type.

30/30 and boxes of rounds,
Black powder out the wazoo.

a few creeks. I could live out my life there. sure would miss the finer things of life but I could keep my family alive no problem.

what gas I have would be fore the tillers, and generators. but you would run out fast. generators suck gas fast

[danny_galaga]

well, you could move to new zealand like the rich and famous are doing. then you can watch the saga unfold in the comfort of your mansion by the lake 

[Stingray]

If it goes Deliverance, I vote we send Sephroth out front to meet the Hillbillies--since he's probably never seen THAT one either.

I do hear that he's got a mighty purty mouth.

-S