Let's imagine that after an atomic bomb explosion, a meteorite fall, a flood, or after a super-epidemic, you managed to survive. In reality, everything will not be the same as in the films.
By surfing the Internet and looking at the basic ideas of the survivalists, I came to the conclusion that the very idea of surviving during and after the Apocalypse (or BP) is comparable to the newest, mental illness. Or rather, with a newfangled, mental illness. Let's imagine that after the explosion of all atomic bombs (the fall of a super-large meteorite, a supernova outbreak, an all-planetary flood, climate change, poles, or after a super-epidemic) you managed to survive. You thought about your future in advance and hid in a special shelter in advance. You have supplies of food, water, air and weapons. For a year, for two, for ten years. And then, after the Apocalypse, what will you eat and drink, what will you breathe and how will you defend yourself from enemies?
1) Will you create your own autonomous world and will not need contacts with the outside world?
2) It is enough for you to survive the X hour, and then everything will be formed by itself.
3) The available weapons, knowledge and supplies are enough for you to dictate your terms after B.P. the rest of the survivors for their further survival.
Are you firmly convinced of this? And they did not forget that other people will probably survive besides you. And, for sure, there will be much more survivors after the X hour than expected (would). All your supplies, yourself and your very shelter will be a tidbit for them. Rather, the next place where your opponents can eat again, quench their thirst and possibly arm themselves. After two or three attacks on the shelters of other trained survivalists, the attackers will gain experience and prove to be more experienced than the thrifty defenders in the survival shelters. Gangs of attackers, almost bloodlessly for themselves and according to a proven methodology, will take the next shelters of the survivalists with their reserves. Do you think they will need surviving captives? Maybe for meat or for special treats?
Suppose that you still managed to safely hide from other, unplanned survivors and you can live in peace, destroying your supplies in splendid isolation or in the circle of your loved ones. How long are you going to live in isolation from the rest of the surviving society? Hoping that in a couple of years or even decades everything will work itself out by itself. You will leave your shelters, and shops are already working around, public transport is running, friendly employees of the Sobez will eventually give you documents for a comfortable old-age pension and with benefits, as a participant who survived B.P. and at the same time an insurance policy for medical services out of turn?
Let's think, what will happen to the entire planet at once, the abolition of borders and the abolition of any state laws around the planet? The answer is not difficult. Half of the surviving inhabitants of Africa and three quarters of the inhabitants of Asia will move to Europe and begin to colonize the Siberian territories of Russia, as well as the lands of Australia and New Zenland. The main inhabitants of the North American states of America and Canada will be Brazilians, Mexicans and other South Americans. Most Africans, Asians, and South Americans still struggle today. For example, for more than half of Africans, prolonged hunger strikes, thirst, cannibalism, and slavery are as common and familiar as day and night. And after B.P. What will happen. All these hungry and cold will rush for a better share, take away and share values from snickering rich people from other countries. So if you are counting on motorized white marauders (as shown in Hollywood movies), then in vain. They will be eaten and destroyed in the first place, and representatives of other nations, religions and even those with an unusual skin color will smoke and drag you out of the fortified shelters.
I personally have nothing against the indigenous people of Asia, Africa and South America. But the Species, Nation, Race and a specific representative of this Species, Nation and Race are not the same thing. Everyone knows how an unpredictable crowd differs in "behavior" from an individual. Compared to the deeds of Weed, the Nation and the Race, just a riotous and maddened crowd with impunity (the fans of the losing team) will seem like a slight whim of a first-grader girl.
Simply put, after the first Apocalypse, there will be several more, so to speak, personal. And it remains to be seen which in turn the Apocalypse will turn out to be worse. So how will you survive after the End of the World, with your haunted suitcases in your (thoughtful) shelters and with the patented NAZ micro-kits in your pockets.
Suppose that all of the above does not happen with the migration of peoples and races. Will survive after B.P. only very well prepared and thrifty. The rest will safely disappear where they suffered during their lifetime. And how long will you have enough canned food and cartridges? For example, other scientists promise the length of winter, after the planetary exchange atomic bombs, up to forty years. The height of the snow cover will be measured in hundreds of meters. Guess which representatives of the flora and fauna of the planet will be able to survive? In the sense of whom the survivors who went out for a walk after a nuclear winter will be able to hunt.
At the end of the nuclear winter, mainly adult children and grandchildren of the survivalists will leave the shelters. And no one has prepared anything for these children and grandchildren on the newly revived Earth. Ruins of cities, dead forests, hordes of mice and mutant rats, and radioactive water sources of all kinds. But even to this radioactive outrage, only the lucky few will survive. During a nuclear winter, the snow will drastically reduce the background radiation for a while in order to release all the radiation during the melting of the snow. Among the survivors of the Apocalypse and Nuclear Winter, a mass extinction will begin from the increased radioactivity of the First Spring.
It will also be very difficult to survive after other variants of the Apocalypse, such as the Flood, the outbreak of the Supernova (star) or as a result of the increased activity of the native Sun, although the whole plot will slip through much faster. The survivors will not even have time to grow old to see the consequences of the Apocalypse. As a result, accidentally survivors will face the same ruins of cities, rotting corpses, epidemics and dead forests.
How are the survivors of the Apocalypse destined to begin another round of civilization, again with life on trees? And you, the first generation of survivalists, will remain in their memory as gods, will you show your unreasonable descendants tricks, such as how to use glass containers and other utensils in general, how to make fire with a found lighter or destroy an earthen wall using the pipe of the last disposable grenade launcher in the town of Ierekhon? You will tell them incomprehensible stories about the misuse of atomic explosives, which were only the size of an orange (or apple) in every bomb and rocket. Surely, some of the descendants will somehow remember and write down the extraordinary power of apples in the paradise past of mankind. Well, this has already been said somewhere.
And you, dear survivors of all countries, want to say that the human species and the entire human civilization will be able to survive thanks to your disturbing suitcases and pocket NAZs? And also thanks to cool knives, camouflage uniforms, gas-cylinder pneumatics and NATO bowlers?
We live in a volatile and unpredictable world. Ahead, humanity can wait for any turn. Therefore, it is advisable to prepare for the most incredible events. For example, do you know how to survive a zombie apocalypse? Can't you imagine what it is? Then you are lucky. Most of the population has already heard about probable infections that turn ordinary people into mindless evil spirits with only one passion - to infect everyone around them. Let's try to figure out how to survive in a zombie apocalypse, and whether such a possibility exists, in principle.
What event are we talking about
Let's say right away that no one scientifically described a situation when a large part of the planet's population falls under the influence of a now unknown virus. Such horrors are found in films and books. But a zombie apocalypse in real life is no less likely than a nuclear war. It can happen even more suddenly, without preparation. For example, the cause of the transformation of people into zombies will be one of the viruses unknown to science, resting in the thickness of the glaciers. And the fact that they are melting with an ever-increasing speed is regularly reported by the media, and experts do not predict that this process will stop. That is, to assume the onset of such a phenomenon as a zombie apocalypse in real life means to prepare for danger. And the one who is warned has more chances to stay in a normal state.
Who are zombies?
Science is not able to reliably answer such a question. Probably, such developments are underway, but covertly, without the announcement of the results to the public. We will use the information that operates in Hollywood. Zombies are people who have been attacked by viruses, in fact, revived dead. Their main characteristics:
- eat human flesh, and cakes are not attracted to them;
- move slowly but persistently;
- prefer to hunt in large groups;
- die with physical destruction of the brain;
- react to sounds, light, smell.
What are zombies afraid of?
Let's reason. We proceed from the assumption that zombies are bodies that have retained the ability to somehow move in search of food, but have lost all other human qualities, including feelings. Fear is one of them. He, as it was found out in ancient Greece, is one of the basic instincts of a living being. That is, there is nothing to figure out for a long time - the emotions of the zombies are absent, these creatures are incapable of being afraid a priori. It is impossible to influence them by means of threats. We'll have to fight back. There is only one way to destroy zombies - by destroying the brain that commands the dead body. That is, you need to think in advance about having a weapon against zombies. There are many options, especially since humanity throughout its history has been improving the methods of murder. But more on that later.
How to survive the zombie apocalypse?
Despite the lack of reliable information about such a disaster, the instructions have long been written. Enthusiasts successfully spread tips on how to survive the zombie apocalypse. In general, the techniques can be divided into several options, which should be considered separately. There are tips for families and single citizens, those who are caught in a disaster in an apartment, house and office. It is clear that the rescue algorithm depends on the starting conditions. For example, if a sudden epidemic occurs while you are riding in a crowded subway or bus, there is simply no escape. People will instantly transmit the virus along a chain with breathing or saliva, the first infected will bite the rest. As a result, the gang of the dead is ready. Weapons against zombies in this situation are useless, they will crush the mass. In fact, when organizing a rescue, it is important to avoid contact with the infected as long as possible, to hide, forgetting about courage. There is no place for heroism. Only the owner of an atomic weapon can kill everyone, since more than seven billion people already live on the planet. In the event of an epidemic, most of them will join the hordes of the living dead.
Loner rescue plan
Let's start considering recommendations on how to survive in a zombie apocalypse, with non-family citizens, gender does not matter. First of all, it is necessary to barricade windows and doors, that is, to isolate oneself from the outside world. Then start counting and sorting stocks. The real zombie apocalypse in the city is Armageddon, especially at the very beginning. The dead will prowl in search of prey. They will organize in flocks and attack everything moving, so it's better to wait. It will last, according to calculations, about two weeks. Therefore, you need to immediately stock up on water and food. You should only take products that are not subject to rapid spoilage: canned food, biscuits, and the like. Do not exchange for cereals, it will be impossible to cook them in the city. Employees of energy supply companies will be eaten up very quickly.
How to choose clothes
An important point of the plan called: "how to survive in a zombie apocalypse" is the ability to equip appropriately. It should be understood that the world has completely changed, which means that it is not up to fashion. Clothes and footwear should be durable, as comfortable and durable as possible. A sporty style is exactly what you need. Also prepare a backpack or bag, which will fit a knife, food, water, ropes, matches or a lighter, flashlight, gas mask, medicine, change of clothes. It's not worth taking a lot. Throw away everything you don't need. Instead of documents, put a lock pick or screwdriver. In general, you need to focus on the tools, they will prove to be very useful when it comes time to hit the road. And in the city there is no chance to survive.
Family Citizens Plan
We will not repeat ourselves. Let's describe only the features of behavior. Children need to be instructed and equipped especially carefully. They can become easy prey for even lonely zombies. These creatures smell, therefore, it is necessary to get rid of it. Anything on hand will do: cologne, perfume, food fragrances, gasoline or kerosene. Be sure to water any of the above fluids well on your children when you hit the road. It is better to place babies in a backpack to make it easier to move. We'll have to travel in dashes from one apartment to another, stopping to rest. Each room should be well barricaded, all security measures should be taken.
Where to get food, water and weapons?
One of the most important factors for survival in such a situation is the availability of protective equipment. You will have to look for firearms in specialized stores or other people's apartments. This is no longer looting, but a necessary measure. Try to act carefully so that the noise does not attract the dead. Do not go hunting alone. It is advisable to immediately gather in groups, it is easier to defend this way. You shouldn't go to huge supermarkets right after the start of the apocalypse. There are many unfortunate people caught by the epidemic while shopping. They will leave the buildings only after a certain time. Postpone the hunt for a week or two. Better to look for food in small shops closer to the outskirts. But they will quickly become empty, then you will go to the hypermarkets. The most real zombies are looking for people and animals, so they will leave the city when there are no inhabitants left there. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to wait out a month in an apartment, then it is worth using it.
Clash with zombies
No one will be able to get around the dead completely. Therefore, it is necessary to know in advance how to deal with zombies. The technique is simple: destroy their brains. The first time it will be scary, since the creatures do not immediately lose their human appearance. But the choice is small: either join the hordes of the living dead, or kill. Any weapon from a knife to a rifle is suitable for brain destruction. You should hit directly in the head. It is better to strengthen melee weapons with a lever. It is recommended to make a spear by tying a good knife to the mop handle. So you will protect yourself from contact with zombie secretions, which may be infectious. It's also good to look for a crossbow. Learn to shoot during the battle. And it is convenient because the ammunition can be reused. By the way, don't forget to wear thick rubber gloves. This tool is useful for extracting arrows from zombie heads. In the hardware store, get yourself a heavy ax. It is great for fighting the dead.
Where to go?
How to defeat zombies is still unknown. People will have to figure it out as the situation develops. It is important to get out of the megacities and keep the population. This will require transport, preferably a car. It can be loaded with many useful tools that will subsequently save lives. You should move to the distant suburbs. Choose any empty house protected by a moat or strong fence. All this will have to be strengthened. Use rebar and other iron rods by sticking them into the ground. The most real zombies do not shine with their mind, respectively, they will bump into obstacles and delay the whole flock. Make stretches from the cans and ropes. They will notify you of the danger in time. Housing should be selected near a water source, but not far from the city. It will take a long time to grow food, so you will sometimes have to go to shops for prey.
The best places to organize a base
The time of the apocalypse levels everyone, sweeps away the conventions between the living. The only goal will remain - not to replenish the gangs of the dead. Therefore, it will be possible to apply for any unoccupied premises. The best ones for survival are likely to be:
- government suburban bases;
- military units;
- prisons;
- floating, protected objects.
You need to unite with other people and look for a similar room. It is much easier to organize defense there. Until all the gasoline has been used up, it is recommended to find an excavator and surround the building with a wide moat. It will be great if you can fill it with water from a river or lake.
Distant plans
As a rule, at a time of crisis, people are only concerned with survival. Those who succeed will face another problem: what to do in the new, scary world... They will have to cleanse the planet and try not to ruin the human race. And this will require a lot of effort and work. Gradually, supplies will run out, even if there are few survivors. In addition, part of the population will loot, trying to satisfy their own desires, not caring about the future. We'll have to fight off the dead and living bandits. This requires a lot of weapons. Your community will have to constantly replenish its arsenal. Besides, it is necessary to gather more normal people. It's easier to keep the defense together. But it is dangerous to admit everyone he meets into the community. People will have to be checked. A year later, if you manage to preserve the community, you will have to learn how to conduct a subsistence economy, grow food in the beds.
So a new era of humanity will begin, if the apocalypse does happen. And it will be completely different, not the same as today. Most of the technology will be rapidly and irretrievably lost during the life of the first generation of survivors. And how society will develop is unknown. Perhaps the zombies will be defeated, and people will discover in themselves other, more advanced abilities, if they manage to preserve the population, of course.
From a scientific point of view, the Apocalypse is a completely realistic phenomenon that can occur on Earth at any time. The Apocalypse can be called the End of the World, which was so actively predicted by so many historians, astrologers and believers. different religions... In 2012, no End of the World happened, but, for example, the last book of the New Testament called "The Revelation of John the Theologian", which is also called "Apocalypse" in another way, just mentions that a terrible catastrophe on a global scale may occur in the near future. Of course, you can be skeptical about the very topic of the Apocalypse, but purely theoretically, on any day the Earth can collide with a huge asteroid, and it's not for nothing that the media shoot news about asteroids and others at least once a year space objects that collided or passed very close to the Earth.
Let's imagine for a second that there is only dust, pitch darkness and only ruins around you, yes, you survived the Apocalypse, but what skills acquired in life can be useful to you? The most important thing is, of course, not to give up and not give up, and even if you have never gone on a hike in your life, you will surely cope with vital processes in the deep wilderness. Many of you have watched such films as "Through the Snow", "Monsters", "The Next Day", "I Am Legend", "Mad Max" and of course everyone's favorite "Walking Dead". Hollywood film companies do not stop making films about Mars and writing apocalyptic scripts for more and more films, because the topic of human survival after a global catastrophe is very relevant. Even watching movies can help you cope with the difficulties of the apocalypse, because from the movies you can learn how you can warm yourself up in absolute frost, what you shouldn't do when there is a pack of wolves in front of you. We must not forget that in the event of the Apocalypse, we will practically return to the times of the Stone Age - without all the technologies, electricity and many other inventions that seriously simplify our life now. Of course, we should not exclude the possibility that before the end of the world we will be able to develop " perpetual motion machine"Or robots that will help us restore the whole world after a terrible tragedy, but it is still very important to be able to:
Hunt with bow and arrow
Purify water
Make bread / food
Build a home from improvised means
Make a fire without matches
Popular show games like "The Last Hero" teach people how to survive, and seemingly simple things like water purification can become a very important procedure for preserving your life, because a person is 80% liquid and hardly more than 5 days will last without water.
I quote: " How to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. What you need to be able to, with whom it is better to be friends, and who to fear. " We reveal it ...
The very first problem that a person who sees cities that have developed like a house of cards with burning factories and oil storage facilities will face is the shock of losing everything that has been accumulated in previous years. The thought that everything has changed, within minutes, that the old world has fallen and will never return, will hang over everyone like the sword of Damocles. Not everyone can handle it. Crazy people will appear, sometimes harmless, sometimes annoying, sometimes very dangerous. The destroyed shops will already be massively plundered.
With a catastrophe, life will freeze, but will not stop. In principle, the most pleasant thing in life is herself. Will have to build new life, somewhat similar, somewhat unlike the modern one.
In a year, disunited and not so, loners and groups of survivors will begin to unite. Around the surviving villages, around the tent cities. They will start building houses, uprooting the forest, plowing up the land. Those. moves to a new way of life. As a matter of fact, three significant breaks can be traced, the behavior during which will affect the entire subsequent life. The first is the very moment of the catastrophe, the second is the first year after it, the third is “settling on the ground” (organization of the community).
The first thing that needs to be done is to survive the disaster. Survive the early days and hours. The level of population losses in an earthquake of 12 points will be 85 ... 95% for cities, especially large ones, depending on the time of day. This means that cities and neighborhoods will be deserted. But life in the countryside, although it will change a lot, the number of deaths will be much less. It is very important to get out of the city at the first sign of it. There will be a lot of smart, quick-witted and anticipatory ones. If you do not have a car, then do not go out on major highways, this will raise suspicions.
It is better to leave along the railways, there is always a road along the line and a forest protection strip. Or just across the outskirts, not provided with a road. Then to run into the police, with its approach - we will delay, and then we will figure it out, there is less chance. A person who leaves the city in anxious times with a backpack over his shoulders, and even more so simply in everyday clothes, always arouses suspicion. Cyclists are far less suspicious. If possible, just hop on any shuttle bus that goes roughly in the direction you want to go. To wait for yours is like death. Blocking a city is a difficult task, but doable. Even by the police, without the involvement of the army. Remember to warn family and friends before the lines of communication are destroyed. We'll have to find a place where you can sit out the worst hours. When hurricanes and earthquakes rage. Over time, the weather will calm down, the earth will stop shaking, well, not in the vicinity of awakened volcanoes, of course. State power will not disappear overnight. Measures will be taken to evacuate the population from the disaster zones. Organized tent camps and field hospitals. On alarm, the remnants of the army and navy will be mobilized. It will be very important to survive the first year, with its cataclysms, constant frenzy of weather and atmosphere. With constant frightening news.
Probably it is worth dividing the property for a nomadic life and for a sedentary one, but it is worth remembering that everything that concerns a nomadic one necessarily applies to a sedentary one.
It is necessary to make a small digression. It is very likely that leaving the city at the first sign of disaster will have to be in great haste. Literally in a suit and shoes. Or in overalls and welding boots. Or it is not yet known what, in your work clothes. With matches with cigarettes in his pockets, a completely useless wallet, a cell phone and keys to an apartment from a past life. Having a way to leave the city, not far from the border, arrange a cache, in which there will be things that are vital at the initial section of the path, well, which will be useful later, for nomadic life, for example. A plastic canister with a very wide mouth can be used as a container.
Parking
When choosing a parking space, you need to follow a few simple rules. Never stop in a gorge, a valley between two hills. It's always damp and dark there. The main number of ticks, snakes (in the Urals, including vipers), mosquitoes and all kinds of blood-sucking, poisonous and infectious reptiles live there. The best place to camp is on a southern, not steep slope. That would be not far from the stream. Too close to water bodies, rivers, lakes are not worth it, it is damp, and it will be very cold at night. Avoid birch forests. They are very unhealthy. Although birch is the best firewood. Choose a location for the toilet below and slightly away from the nearest stream. The army norm for the distance from a dwelling to a toilet of the "lavatory" type is 25 meters. Follow it adamantly. Get rid of the risk of contracting a huge pile of diseases and unpleasant odors. To set up a camp, even a very simple one, takes about 2 ... 3 hours in any case. If you are moving purposefully from point A to point B, then it makes no sense to set up a long-term camp. It is quite enough to pick up sticks for a fire and collect water in a stream on the go. To light a fire, put up a tent for half an hour. Plus cooking, dinner, evening dressing and lights out. The algorithm of actions is as follows, on the go, collect sticks for a fire, light a fire and put water to boil, put up a tent, add food for cooking, collect firewood in the morning, prepare a tent for spending the night (spread foam, a sleeping bag, pack a backpack), eating, smoking chopsticks, toilet, sleep. The most important food is dinner. It makes no sense to have a hearty breakfast and lunch. It will be difficult to walk, and just harmful.
Sixty percent of the heat that a person loses through clothing comes from the collar. It will be comfortable and warm in a sweater with a high collar. In the absence of it, use a scarf. As a last resort, you can tie a towel. Never sleep in your shoes, even if it's very cold outside. Tightly tied laces impede blood flow and freeze your feet even more. By morning, if your legs are not swollen, they will not rest and you will not have much strength to walk. Be sure to unfasten your belt, fly and top buttons of your shirt at night - you better rest. Remember that it is much more dangerous to sweat out in the cold than to freeze. Sweat freezes on the laundry, in which case pneumonia is guaranteed. If you do perspire, take off all clothing, down to underwear. Let it freeze, and this will happen quickly, and slightly heat it up and dry it next to the flame of a fire, this is called freeze drying. If there is no fire, then just exhaust it. A thick knitted sweater can be turned inside out at night. Then some of the sweat that has accumulated during the day will disappear from it. And the next day will be a little better. If it is cold outside, very cold, and you are spending the night alone, then you can warm up the stone on the fire, or warm water and pour it into a bottle or flask, wrap it in a towel, a rag, and sleep with him in an embrace. Gloves are comfortable, mittens are warm. Therefore, apply the principle of matryoshka dolls. Thin gloves should be worn under thick and clumsy mittens, and during some delicate work, for example, shooting, throwing off the mittens will be much more comfortable.
Army mittens are called so called verkhonki. Make a loop on the mittens, sew a button to the cuff, then the mittens will not be lost. Or do as you did in childhood, just tie an elastic band to the mittens. When driving every three to four days, it is worth taking a break for the day. Take a break, patch up clothes and equipment, do your laundry, and renew your supplies.
Animals, as a rule, are afraid of the sight and smell of fire, the smell of gun oil. Wolves hunt in packs and, for example, in the month of March they have a rut, they walk in packs near the female and are extremely aggressive. The sight of the shotgun removed from the shoulder does not scare them. Although it makes you keep your distance. Bear, in a well-fed state, the animal is quite good-natured. This does not apply to female bears with cubs, and especially to cranks. Those. bears awakened in winter. The connecting rod is a hungry, extremely aggressive and dangerous creature. When you meet him, shoot to kill immediately! The bear is able to catch up with a galloping horse and climbs trees superbly. The lynx is solitary and, in comparison with the bear, a small predator. It hunts at night for small game, but is not afraid to go for roe deer. Has an amazing skill moves through trees without leaving traces on the ground. At the same time, it moves almost silently, like all felines. As a rule, it does not attack a person, but if the winter turns out to be too hungry ... He attacks with a jump on his back from behind. The chances of surviving such a fight are practically nil. A sign that a lynx is found in the forest is the bark of trees peeled off at the level - slightly lower than the chest. Breeds kittens in holes and dens. As you will see, the best you can do is your legs. And the faster the better. Somewhere in the vicinity walks a mother, extremely dangerous in anger. And in general, avoid communication with cubs. Even a badger attacks in such a situation. Elk. Not predators, herbivores. But a sleek and swift ton of net weight can do as well as a bulldozer. Trample to death very quickly. Never hunt moose outdoors. My father gave up the hunt after he missed a running beast twice in a row. He turned around and flopped on him. A man with a carbine from the other side of the clearing helped. Wild boars. You can escape from it on a tree. Fortunately, like moose, they do not know how to climb trees, if they swear at their own, they will leave. Perhaps the most dangerous predator in our forests is the wolverine. This is a self-confident, extremely persistent and cunning beast. It will persecute for a long time and persistently. Foxes bite very painfully, leaving long-lasting wounds, and suffer rabies. Never take a wild hare, even if it is wounded or stunned, in your hands. Just finish it off with a stick or knife. The hare, despite its small stature, has very strong hind legs and is able to tear the stomach with its claws. When "communicating" with any predators, keep in mind that each has only one paw of the heels of long and extremely sharp claws. You, at best, will have a knife, and then one. When you do not walk along the animal paths, you will definitely meet its owner. In summer, never camp near raspberries or other berry bushes. The owner of the taiga will go there as in the dining room.
With a completely nomadic life, it makes sense to organize several visited "camps", to which you can return from time to time. This will save a lot of time in the future. And it's hard to spend the winter in a tent. It is easier to build a dugout far from settlements and spend the winter in it. A good log house will take a lot of time and effort. In such a situation, you will have to live mainly by hunting, and, having exhausted or scared away the game in one place, you can safely go to another. Never shy away from pasture. Wild sorrel and garlic, great spices. Mushrooms will greatly diversify your menu. Never eat unfamiliar mushrooms and berries !!! There will be no one to pump out in the forest. For a long time, only people with a special mental organization can live alone. Robinson, for example. It is much easier, I emphasize, it is much easier to travel even together.
Orientation
There are two types of terrain in which orientation is very difficult. These are steppes, which have no landmarks, and mountains, or rather foothills, in which there are too many landmarks. It is very difficult to navigate the map without large objects, such as lakes, rivers, high rocky peaks, power lines, villages, etc. For orientation in rough terrain, a two-layout map is well suited. With a scale of 1 cm - 2 km. All the most noticeable landmarks are indicated in sufficient detail on it. Please note that the cards in the USSR are classified as classified in the third degree.
Accordingly, they are declassified only in the event of a war. Military units, closed cities and strategic objects are not marked on the maps of civilian publications. Including roads. Most detailed maps- military. With the current level of secrecy (an open striptease of one's secrets), sufficiently detailed plans of the area can be bought or found on the Internet. Ask at tourist and hunting stores. The most detailed electronic maps with a topographic reference using the GPS system, and the recently launched Glonas-M, will be absolutely useless.
Accordingly, all instruments for orientation by satellites, which will remain in their orbits, and will not turn after the poles. Look for noticeable landmarks on maps - lakes, rivers, river bends, large ravines, villages, power lines, railways, federal highways. It is safer to learn them by memory (landmarks). The compass will be absolutely useless at first. But when the new poles are established, it will be enough to draw a new north-south line on the map along the new landmarks, and then it will be much easier to navigate.
You shouldn't even dream of a prosperous old age, no one will pay pensions in those years, and nursing homes will die out as a class. So, in order to ensure elementary survival in retirement age, it is worth joining a large community as early as possible.
A few words about the forest for residents of megacities
The first thing you notice is the silence that presses on your ears, which keeps you in constant tension. After a while, you start to listen and discern great amount sounds. Up to whether there are bushes behind the hill or not. As a hedgehog runs in the grass. Like a dragonfly rustling its wings. Personally, in a day and a half, it cuts through a chronic rhinitis, a subtle scent. There is no smog in the forest air from tens and hundreds of thousands of cars, from factories and factories, from power plants. Almost everyone has a slight and very pleasant dizziness, I would say even euphoria. At the same time, you constantly want to sleep, but it is very easy to fight sleep. We jokingly call this "oxygen poisoning." It just becomes much easier for the lungs to breathe. A week later, smokers, and not only smokers, begin to cough up mucus from the lungs. Fear not, it will go away quickly and almost painlessly. Quitting smoking on a long hike through the forest is easy. From stress and stress, in our situation, constipation will arise, be sure to keep a laxative in your medicine cabinet. When the constipation goes away, the situation due to the new food and regimen will turn one hundred and eighty degrees. Do not worry. This is also temporary. After a while, all the chronic sores that everyone has will come out. I apologize for the cynicism, it is not the strongest and healthiest who will survive, but those who were able to pull themselves together and will not sink to the level of an animal. Living in extreme conditions will return pressure to its place, calm a shattered immune system, and restore metabolism. Overweight will lose weight, overly thin will become overgrown with muscles. Do you know who the healthiest people in the world are? Homeless people. Homeless people do not get sick with anything, with the exception of head lice, perhaps. Watch yourself carefully. Be sure to follow personal hygiene measures. Firstly, hygiene is always good, and secondly: adherence to rituals, such as: washing, brushing your teeth, shaving, hair styling, will help maintain your sanity. Will become a bridge between the old and the new world. No wonder they say: washed, that he was born again. And a shaved face and a neat hairstyle will invigorate you and give you a good mood for the whole day. After a while, everything will settle down, and the basic parameters of the body will return to normal. Remember, when thunder breaks out, the most important thing is to pull yourself together. If the situation does not require immediate and urgent measures to survive and rescue, and when you are extremely confused and overwhelmed, then just start remembering the phone numbers and email addresses of all your friends (as one of the options).
Will you say nonsense? That's right, but when you realize that this is nonsense, it means that the reactions are slowly returning and you are already able to think. The overwhelming majority of downed pilots died in natural conditions due to mistakes that they made in the first hour after the emergency landing.
Be sure to watch your step. Whole legs are a guarantee of successful survival. Keep an eye on the area. A lot of useful information can be learned from the traces.
Living a year after the disaster is not an easy task. Given our climate, sitting in a tent on sacks of food will not work. Mother nature never spoiled the Slavs. Probably will not spoil further. A solid, long-term camp will be needed. It is easier and more reliable to start a house in the village (a dacha in the Canary Islands will not work). Recently, thanks to "reforms", a large number of abandoned farms have appeared. Three to five courtyards. Housing and land in them is worth a penny.
Sedentary
In the settlement, if you decide to live separately from society, you will have to restore a tough patriarchal community. "Whoever harms a neighbor is an enemy of society!" And this will require breaking the habitual consciousness, with its laws and established rules.
An evacuation point must be agreed in advance. As a matter of fact, the shelter must be built in advance. It is necessary to determine the evacuation routes, bypassing large railway stations and official collection points of refugee camps. Draw some landmarks, maybe the tracks along the railways, it will be a little easier this way.
Housing in our climate is definitely log cabins. Two people with a chainsaw, with minimal skill, lay down a bathhouse in a day or two. In a larger group, a simple house with two rooms and a canopy can be easily made in a week. Here it is only necessary to establish the organization and distribution of labor. That would not interfere, but helped each other. A community of five families is able to build a five-yard farm with buildings in a month. If only everyone will help each other, and not sweat alone. Material for construction - any wood, except birch. A birch blockhouse will rot in two to three years. If possible, a pair of lower rims should be made of larch. Larch is a very heavy material and therefore it is difficult to build from it, but a house built from it will stand for centuries if the foundation does not crumble. Usually dried pine is used for construction. Since there will be nowhere to take dried pine, you will have to put up with both heavy logs and resin protruding from the walls. By the way, you can collect it. Reboiled resin is rosin, the best soldering additive.
You will have to heat your home and cook food through the oven. It is not difficult to build a fireplace (efficiency 12 ... 15%), but a competent stove (efficiency 20 ... 35%) is a delicate job. Stove kits sold in hardware stores are very useful. It includes a cast iron stove, ash pan and two doors. Remember that in front of the oven doors and in front of the fireplace there must be a plate made of non-combustible material, steel, for example, at least fifty centimeters wide. Otherwise, the fire will become a matter not of chance, but of time. This is a standard requirement of the fire inspectorate, endured by hundreds and thousands of fires. The Russian stove is good, but does not keep warm for long. The so-called. "Dutch", in which there is a massive, cast-iron plate. Cast iron is a very heat-absorbing material, it heats up for a long time, but keeps heat for a very long time. And at the same time it burns out very slowly
Additionally, to prevent quick burnout of the cast-iron jacket, you can coat it with clay from the inside. You can also equip one of the corners of the stove with a water tank, you get "steam heating" and a hot water source at the same time. Only the level and flow rate of water will have to be constantly monitored. The tank will need to be covered with a lid so that steam does not enter the living quarters. In this case, it is also imperative to remove the steam generated under the lid with a hose or pipe outside. The house is not a bathhouse, it is not recommended to add parks and live in constant dampness.
The roof can be covered with roofing material, slate (now this material is not actually used), roofing iron (corrugated board), just boards, straw. The straw burns, burns well. All Russian fairy tales show stoves with a cast iron without a bottom, dressed on a chimney. This is a flame arrester. So that the sparks flying out of the pipe do not set fire to the roof. Experience gained over the years. Follow it, and then you will not have to suffer in a fire caused by your stupidity or ignorance.
Community life will revolve around small number people and events. 
Camping equipment
KNIFE. The presence of a knife in the wild makes life incredibly easier. Of course, you can make a stone one, or some other one from scrap materials, but if you are not a blacksmith or a locksmith, then the quality and ease of use of such a tool will be below the level of criticism. Large knife - cleaver.
AXE. You can tourist, small hatchet. SAW. Plain, with one handle. A garden saw, a short thing in the household is useless, and is suitable only for the garden. You can buy a tourist. It is a flexible web (cable) with teeth. It can be carried in your pocket. Triangular file, for sharpening tools. GRINDING BAR, for sharpening knives and axes.
BACKPACK. There are a lot of backpacks now. There have even appeared equipped with solar batteries that recharge the batteries of mobile phones (sic!), Players, radio stations, navigators and similar toys of tourists spoiled by life. They will soon be equipped with built-in coffee makers and refrigerators. For the right price, of course. We need a simple, reliable and inexpensive one. The most comfortable ones are mountaineering. The most common are cycling. The center of gravity of these is shifted slightly downward, and thanks to the wide belt, the bulk lies not on the shoulders, but on the belt. With this arrangement, the back gets much less tired. Self-resetting must be present on the belt. This is a clasp that holds well, and is very easy to unfasten, literally with a slight movement of your finger. Situations when the opportunity to get rid of the shoulder load as quickly as possible saves lives are not so rare. Don't get carried away with oversized "bananas" (tall, cylindrical backpacks). Most of the time they will be half empty, and, dangling over their shoulders, interfere with walking. Personally, I prefer the square one with a semi-rigid bottom. An easel backpack with a rigid frame should be chosen only for yourself. They are quite customizable, modern, I mean, but it's a rather dreary and long process. There must be a lot of pockets on the backpack itself. The valve, the top cover, should also have a pocket. It is desirable that on the outside there were several safety belts on which you can attach an ax, foam, a tent with pegs and stands, a shovel, a bottle of water, a radio station, well, the list is almost endless. After you assemble the backpack, be sure to check that the load does not catch on the sacrum, the point below the lower back and above the buttocks. Bloody calluses are rubbed there quickly and almost imperceptibly. Such calluses heal for a very long time and painfully. There are still old, shapeless backpacks of the Soviet, and not only production. They have two advantages - they take up little space during storage, and they are extremely cheap. More benefits no. In extreme cases, a bag with a shoulder strap or an army "sidor" will also go. This is a bag with a long strap sewn to the bottom, the middle of which ties the neck of the bag. They showed a lot of them in the movies about the war. A fully equipped backpack, without food and water, weighs about 5 ... 7 kilograms. And yet, be sure to carry a knife, a flask, a first aid kit, a compass and a map in the pockets of your jacket or pants. The knife and flask are better on the belt. It may happen that the backpack will have to be thrown when crossing, for example, and with such a minimum set, the chance to survive is always more than zero. Never drop your weapon. Also a significant plus in the big game for life.
POLYURETHANE FOAM MAT, in common parlance "foam", is served in any tourist equipment store. Necessarily. Will save your kidneys from colds when sleeping on bare ground. With a strong desire, the foam can be replaced with a bunch of spruce branches, just chop the branches, but this is long, not aesthetically pleasing and cold. Such a thing as ... here, it is called "hub", sometimes "podzh @ pnik", as it is called in the store, I do not know. A piece of polyurethane foam the size of ... well, the fifth fulcrum, with a rubber ring tied. Wears over pants, allows you to sit on stones and other cold objects without the risk of getting colds of the genitourinary system. Sometimes it helps to light a fire.
BEDROOM. You can just use a thick woolen or synthetic (the material is called "holofiber" or something like that) blanket. However, blankets take up a lot of space. Sleeping bag, sleeping bag. Not wadded. Wadded and cold, and heavy, and gets wet quickly, and dries for a long time. Here modern synthetic materials will come to the rescue. Such a sleeping bag will weigh 300 ... 500 grams and will take up the volume of a half-liter bottle. When choosing a sleeping bag, it is necessary to adhere to the saying - "the heat of the bones does not ache", the warmer, the better. But they are not cheap. ... When buying two sleeping bags for two, it is better to choose an "envelope" rather than a "wallet". And with the same lightning. Then it will be possible to assemble one large from two small ones, simply by fastening the fasteners together. A little advice - when you settle in the parking lot, hang the sleeping bag out to dry, it will be much better and more pleasant to sleep.
TENT. In a single tent, you can quietly settle for the night together (for a couple of nights, you can also four of them ^ _ ^). And there will still be room for a backpack. In the absence of a tent, you can put a package of trash, plastic bags of 250 liters. They are strong enough to withstand one to five nights in dryness. And it's not too bad to throw them away later. Lightweight, they won't take up much space. Polyethylene cape cloak. And just a big piece of polyethylene. It will be possible to wrap a backpack in it during the march, and arrange a canopy in the parking lot. According to the scenario, heavy rains will fall. Or sew a cape, a jacket, always with a hood, and a pair of large patch pockets from a waterproof fabric. This will be worn for a very long time and will give a little comfort to being in the field.
Towel. Several handkerchiefs. Several pairs of socks, both thick and thin. Footcloths can be made from any rather soft piece of fabric measuring 40 * 60 cm. Those who served in the army will understand. It is better to wear rough shoes with footcloths over the socks. Then the socks tear much less. And it’s warmer.
Fishing set - lures, sinkers, fishing line, float, fishing hooks, net. The network can be bought in Chinese, plastic. It takes up very little space and weighs very little.
A pack of small bags. Advice from your travel experience - when it is very damp, so that your feet do not get wet, you can put on bags over your socks, and your feet will remain dry before parking. Never dry your shoes ABOVE a fire. It will burn out instantly. A small supply of freeze-dried products. They are very light (you don't have to carry water with you) and cook very quickly. Canned meat is also a very good thing, but it is heavy, and it is inconvenient to carry it. Just don't get too carried away. The stupidest situation is to drag unpeeled potatoes with you. Well, if you have a choice, of course. On empty stomach average person one can walk one hundred twenty - one hundred fifty kilometers, and it is not so easy to carry heavy supplies on oneself, especially in conditions of general devastation.
The pot, the mugs, are by no means aluminum! Stainless steel only! A roll of rope thirty meters, not necessary, but it can come in handy. Flask. You can army, aluminum, but it is better also made of stainless steel, or at worst, made of plastic. But always with a case for carrying on a belt. Flexible, plastic canister, two to three liters. With some skill, you can solder it yourself. Required Ingredients- polyethylene, with a thickness of about 2 mm and more, a neck from a PET bottle (PET - polyethylene fluoride, the basis for making plastic bottles for beer, soda, etc. etc.), a soldering iron with a power of 40 W, a strip of flexible and thin fluoroplastic (FUM tape). It does not take up much space, and the 0.75 flask is too small. Water filter. A couple - three packs of dry fuel. Enough for the first time, and then you can make a fire with one match. By the way, it is very convenient for them to kindle raw firewood. Several gas lighters. Matches run out very quickly and damp easily. Wrap the lighters in a condom and tie tightly. A condom is not only a contraceptive thing, but a very multifaceted thing. Examples of use - a tourniquet, a water canister (if you put it in a bag), edged weapons (poured a handful of sand, bumped on the crown, lethal outcome), a sealed container. If you roll a few pieces into a tourniquet, you can make an elastic band for a slingshot. Apart from the use for its intended purpose. Never use gasoline lighters !!! Gasoline will inevitably leak out, then absolutely everything will smell like it. Up to the contents of cans.
Straight razor and correct belt. In principle, you can shave with an ax =). Small mirror, better metal, unbreakable. Scissors, needles, thimbles, threads, buttons, buttons, hooks, rags. If possible - small binoculars or a telescope.
Shortwave radio receiver. Modern receivers confidently receive the soundtrack channel of the First Channel of Russian Television. By the way, the official one, through which government messages will be transmitted. Radio Mayak is also the official "voice". Only modern receivers do not catch it. By listening to these sources, you can learn a lot about the situation. A lightweight, wearable radio station will not hurt to communicate with your group and with the people with whom you are going to get out. With a wife, husband, children. I will talk about power supplies in the chapter "Power supplies". In a situation where you find yourself alone (in two - three or four), and there will be a whole aggressive world against you, the connection will become a powerful psychological factor that will help you survive. A simple CB radio station can now be bought in stores selling equipment for security systems, tourist and hunting. And in the nursery too ... You can make it yourself, but it's not for everybody. For those who want. Do a web search, for the words "Hummingbird radio station" highly recommend. A simple radio station on two microcircuits.
WEAPON. It is important. In the conditions of chaos and complete anarchy of the first days, it will help to avoid critical situations and provide invaluable moral support. Those who served in the army will understand, who did not - take their word for it. Important: weapons and children, two things are incompatible. Observe precautions when handling any weapon. Hiding a rifle or machine gun in a cache is unlikely to work. Rather, a manual short-barreled, pistol or revolver will do. The revolver is better. It is much more reliable. Well, the cartridges, of course. An ordinary slingshot will do, though. With a stock of steel balls from the bearing or just nuts for 12. Only if the ball flies almost silently, the nut buzzes in flight. Talk about weapons in the chapter "Weapons".
FIRST AID KIT. Approximate content: bandages (in sterile packaging, a lot), plaster, cotton wool, iodine, petroleum jelly, multivitamins, camphomen, furacilin, diphenhydramine, aspirin, analgin, askofen, citramon, gramicidin paste, validol, nitroglycerin, corvalol, nitrofinum paste, Vishnevsky ointment, furaplast, BF-6 glue, no-shpa, novocaine, paracetomol, biseptol, trichopolum, phenolphthalein, potassium permanganate, baking soda, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, syringes, pipettes, thermometer, tweezers, syringes. Always keep your first aid kit in an airtight box or bag.
A toothbrush, better not one, with a margin, soap, tooth powder.
Be sure to cut out the staff. Firstly, it helps a lot with long walking, and secondly, what - no, but a weapon. Fight off dogs, for example. Of which there are still quite a few, but there will be many more, and in the absence of food (garbage dumps), they will become very dangerous.
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The popularity of zombies has long gone beyond the horror genre. The Living Dead have become the favorites of kids, fighting with plants in children's games. They are some of the typical enemies in science fiction shooters and TV shows. Become an element of youth design in clothing. Are the chilling horrors in the past, and today no one cares if a zombie apocalypse is possible? Let's try to figure out how relevant this topic and what is the likelihood of the appearance of "living dead" on the streets of modern cities.
Are there zombies in real life?
Creatures with rotten flesh, snarling and pulling hands and teeth to their brains, are overgrown with many stories, legends and superstitions. They appear in mystical thrillers and melodramas, youth comedies much more often than their "colleagues" vampires, adding a bit of humor or symbolizing the oppressed strata of society. In the world of cinema, the living dead are a constant crowd scene that falls into two main categories:
- Classic zombies are corpses that have risen from the graves, often not distinguished by their intelligence and ingenuity.
- The living dead are the result of a pandemic that has turned most of humanity into aggressive carnivorous creatures.
What about reality? It is reliably known that zombies in the original sense are not a fiction of Hollywood directors. The word comes from one of the African languages and means "Soul of the Dead". To the question "Who are zombies and do they exist?" the voodoo priest will answer in the affirmative, adding that he himself would not mind getting a couple of copies for working in the garden.
- The rite of turning a person into an obedient slave does exist in this religion, but does not imply his real death. In Haiti, such practices are illegal.
- For the ritual of a potential zombie, the sorcerer needed a puffer fish containing a strong neuroparalytic poison - tetrodotoxin. After tasting the potion of a voodoo priest, a person fell into a coma.
- Relatives mourned and buried, and then the "dead" came to life - the poison was removed from the body. However, the "zombie" was too confused and scared to return home. The sorcerer constantly intoxicated him with drugs and forced him to work.
The fictional "living dead" are distinguished by their incredible vitality and strength. They are able to find victims by sound or smell. Neuroscientists have even published a book on the zombie brain to humorously understand the functioning of these strange creatures. In the book by Andrey Cruz "The Age of the Dead", the infected have a frightening effect, demoralizing not only ordinary survivalists, but also professional military men. Consider whether a zombie apocalypse is possible in real life.
- Even an army of obedient slaves of a voodoo priest, who do not pay attention to pain and bullets, is not capable of causing a global catastrophe of civilization. A horde of this kind can easily be stopped by the usual police or special forces. Soporific gas is enough to make them no longer dangerous.
- In the event of an epidemic, the virus will be quickly localized and investigated. So far, there is not a single strain that turns a person into a superzombie. Sick people are weakened due to pathological disorders in the body and are not often able to bite even a doctor. The plague epidemic caused significant damage to the Medieval civilization, but the problem lay in the population decline.
- The functioning of a living person requires harmonious work many systems. After death, an irreversible process of decomposition occurs. Rebel zombies will not be able to roar, but even walk. Although their behavior can be explained by violations of certain parts of the brain, but stories with voodoo or an epidemic are still more believable.
Should you prepare for a zombie apocalypse?
Behind the crowds of aggressive "living dead" is the fear of war, devastation, and the collapse of civilization. All this has happened before, is happening now and will happen in the future without any participation of the living or infected creatures. In the natural world, zombies also take place.