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SomeGuy

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You're confined to your own current property, all public utilities (water, electricity, gays, internet, phones, etc.) are shut off, and you can't get anything from the outside (no stores, no leaving your property, no deliveries)...how long do you survive?

Honestly here, I think at best I'd make it a few months mostly limited by food supply. Don't really have any room to grow enough to survive on and being winter would be pretty tricky anyway. So would basically be ration everything we have to eat, use the outdoors to keep food cold as long as we can, the small honda 2200 generator and 20 liters of gas in the cans plus maybe another 50 liters in the vehicle wouldn't go far. Fresh water from the hot water tank and bottled on hand would last a few weeks but then would have to be collected from snow and melted in the sun on warm days, have water purification tablets that would last a while. Would need to rig up some sort of heat exchanging/burn barrel for warmth when it's colder.

If I were to need to prep to extend that time, I'd definitely want some solar for a bit of heating/light. I'd probably setup rain barrels, although in the winter that won't do much good but summer it might help. Would need a decent garden and there's a slim chance I could trap some of the animals we have cross the property now and then (wild turkey, rabbit, misc birds). Really though, it's interesting to think that the most limiting factor is food supply and likely could deal with the rest.
 
The key in that situation is that staying put is a foolish strategy. Mobility and a series of places you can go and exploit opportunities affords a much better chance to survive.
 
Until I get sick and die from only eating dear meat and drinking water. The family would probably be comfortable for 3 weeks ish with rationing food in the fridge/cupboards. However if I was allowed to access the property next to mine we could probably live comfortably for a very long time.
 
Unless I wanna live on puddle water out of the backyard and eat rats/squirrels, not very long. Not enough room to grow much of anything and it's not like I keep a stock of shit to plant here just incase I'm confined to my city lot. I absolutely would not stay in one place in a SHTF situation.
 
With the way my kids eat? Two weeks...lol
if I can utilize the neighbors place, cattle, water source, wild game, then quite awhile.
 
I will resort to cannibalism if it comes to that. I am pretty determined to survive as long as i have to.
 
Heat would be our only concern. We got rid of our wood stove for a pellet stove. It really doesn't get cold enough here to freeze though, so while uncomfortable, it wouldn't be life ending.

Probably 6 weeks to 2 months. There's enough deer/rabbit/quail around to feed us for a long time.

If we teamed up with the neighbors, we could last a LONG time.
 
Water is set with a year round creek.

Deer, turkey, and squirrels in good supply.

"Main" through fair for further back gets one of these:
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2big bronco said:
Until I get sick and die from only eating dear meat and drinking water. The family would probably be comfortable for 3 weeks ish with rationing food in the fridge/cupboards. However if I was allowed to access the property next to mine we could probably live comfortably for a very long time.
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Uh... I've got some bad news for you...
 
got swamp/snow water and assorted mouse and tree rat meat
only have wood for heat so that's no trouble

Probably go a week before I'd get lonely and off myself.
 
I could eat for a couple months and melt snow until that goes away in a few months. 2kw solar and a 16kw gen in the motorhome and 275 gallons of diesel or so. Can make hot water with electricity, sun, or propane that's in the motorhome. If I can stretch the food until summer (maaaaybe possible) I can get my [big] garden going and start to have some food from that in late spring but nothing of substance. All the good stuff takes months to grow and I don't have enough to keep a years worth in storage. Three dogs to feed, soon to be only 2 :( But then just the wife and I. Being in a small town the wildlife for eating is all over, but if everyone is in the same boat the pickings will be slim.
 
Quite a while, I suspect. Got a well and all the solar needed to power everything. 300 head of elk available not too far away and a few hunting buddies to go with. Raised bed garden wrapping the entire house with awesome soil.

Heaps of competition might shorten expectations.
 
I’ve wondered that many times, I’m still not sure.

I do know that I we are better prepared than a lot of people we know
 
Plenty of animals, a spring and a creek, room to grow if I have seeds, apple trees. I'm good right up until I run out of coffee and camels, that's when i end my suffering.
 
I could survive indefinitely right where I am. I bet it won’t take me two weeks to suck start a shotgun trying to keep my whiny ass kid and his mother around though. I’ve got the softest boy to ever grow up in the middle of nowhere and the way his mom coddles his ass it’d be the shotgun or the door in pretty short order.
 
Realistically, until all of the fuel sources run out.

Drinking water is no concern, it falls from the sky in massive quantities and I have several ways to purify it. Temperature is mild, heat and ac are not necessary. Can process and can most of the perishable food on hand. Have a decent amount of non-perishable, maybe 200 days rationed out. Once that's gone I'd be relying on trapping and spearing wild animals. There's some edible plants, fruit and berries on the property in the summer. Once all fuel sources are gone it might be possible to generate enough 12v juice to cook on a stove element or something? I'd give it a go. Have enough supplies for a few wind turbines and I own a couple small 12v solar panels.

I dunno. I don't really care to live that type of existence when it comes down to it.
 
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I’m on a well so I could turn the generator on to fill the storage tanks as needed. I got enough wood to heat the house with the wood burning fire place for years before I’d even need to cut down healthy trees. 12 chickens and there’s more big game around my house than I’ve seen anywhere else in the United States.

I’d say I could last 5 years, maybe more, but my main problem would be running out of fuel.
 
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Comfortably about 4 months. I've got plenty of freeze dried food, water, beer, vodka and ammo. The toy hauler has solar so at month 3 I would need to think about loading it up and heading North where the food/water supply is more abundant.
 
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