Long Term Group Survival and Rebuilding after a Stink Hit the Fan (SHTF) Scenario

Pay Attention to Three Things First to Ensure Early Group Success

Although this is more about the long term, how are you going to get to “the long term?”  Individuals will see to their shelters early on, so you need to focus on three key areas as a community to ensure success.

Attaining Food and Water

A strong defense strategy

Medical Capabilities

Food Procurement and Water Source Location is Key

Hunting parties and Gatherers will find early sources of food.  Ration food well!

Water is extremely important, and you need to set up to an abundant supply, such as rivers, lakes, streams, underground springs, etc.

Strong Defense Strategies will Help You More than You Realize

At this time in the world, there are limited supplies.  Everyone will be fighting for those supplies.  You will need a great early defense strategy to protect early key people and your supplies and storage.

Medical Capabilities will Keep You Alive

This is a harsh time.  Everyone is tired, thirsty, and malnourished.  Sickness and injuries will be large.  Medical is a must.

See to All of Your Needs in a Long Term Survival Scenario

When you get past the initial stages of your group’s survival, things will settle just a bit.  Spirits will pick up, but everyone will still be struggleing.  People will naturally start falling into place.

For the leader that is prepaired, you can use the group dynamic to ensure total survival.  You MUST pay attention to the following aspects of your community’s survival.

Food and Water

Shelters

Security

Medical

Power

Communication

Food and Water: Keep Your Energy Levels and Hydration Up

You need to keep everyone energetic and hydrated to ensure total productivity.  You do this by keeping people fed and hydrated.  You also do this by treating them as PEOPLE, not slaves.

In the short term, you will be looking for water wherever you can.  Rivers, lakes, and streams are your best sources initially.

You will need to send out hunters, gatherers, and trappers to obtain food.  You will need to ration, so you don’t kill out the population of animals in your area.

Eventually the group will need to work on getting easier access to water supplies and filtration along with using land for food production.

Skills Needed for Food and Water

Builder trades, electricians, engineers or architects, and ditch diggers for water systems.

Hunters/Trappers, Farmers, Ranchers, Military/Police for security, Veterinarians, auto mechanics for equipment, blacksmiths for mills or plows, and workers for gardening and harvesting are all trades that will be great for getting food.

Supplies Needed for Food and Water

Filtration Media and large containers for your water filtration.

Land, plows, shovels, seed, scrap or iron, security items, and fencing for food.

Keep the Elements off, and Have a Community Gathering Location

Allow people to take care of themselves for personal, short-term shelters.  As a group, begin building community buildings and areas.

In the short term, people will build or find their own shelters.  They will  create primitive shelters and use tents or tarps… whatever is available.  Some will have the ability to build nice solid structures.

As the group recovers, they will need to focus on building more permanent shelters close to water and food sources and creating a center meeting point.  It could be a structure, or a nice outdoors area around a fire.

Skills that Will Extremely Important for Community Shelter Needs

Carpenters, builders, blacksmiths, lumberjacks, will be needed early on.  Civil engineers and security personnel will be needed as consultants for the strength and defense of the commun...