How long could you survive without electricity?
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If I may ask why are you going to be without electricity for a month? Home generators can be bought to provide an alternative source of power during an extended outage. There are even larger ones that can run an entire home and you would not even know the electricity was out. Without food a month is about right, maybe six weeks for some. Also, why would you be without the food for a month?
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You just got stranded in the wilderness with just the clothes on your back with no possibility of reaching any civilization. Fortunately its spring.
How long could you survive? (I watch to many survival shows.
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How long could you survive? (I watch to many survival shows.
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Great topic and question, Joab. I really can only guess how long I could survive without electricity, but I believe it would be indefinitely assuming I could maintain a food and water source. I've got a good supply of wood and fire starting materials that can give me light and heat if needed. It's the food I worry most about.
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Yea me too, and I grew up in the woods of Maine. I think it would be hopeless without help. We have lost those skills. I was thinking about root cellars and ice houses the other day and how relatively recent that was and how so many survival skills have been lost to modern convenience.
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luckily for him he had a whole dang box of matches
Good thing he was found or he would have been out of fire wood, shelter material and game habitat. At least he wouldn't have to bush wack, like that would matter for long. He would be compost for the new forest.
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QFT.
I think the camera man was drunk.
Liquid food, why didn't I think of that?
Make fire quick, the sun is going down.
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After living our modern life it would take a while to adjust, but I think it could be done ok. We had a tv series here, and I'm sure it's been done in other places, where modern families have been taken out to the bush and had to live for several months without electricity etc and by the end of the experiment, some people were sorry to leave. There are Australian aboriginal people today who still live in the ancient ways. There are people in many remote countries who live very simple lives today. I think it could be done if need be. When I was a little girl we didn't have a telephone, a car or a fridge, or a tv, we had polished boards on the floors, not carpets. Mum used to make all the cakes etc without electrical kitchen appliances. We got these things as time went by and they became the norm, but at the time when we first got them they were considered luxuries. I think we're just too spoiled these days and as more new inventions come along, what we have now will seem old fashioned.
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(Those who frequented Jimmy Akin's blog in years past will get that reference -- I think he's pretty much retired that line himself, though.)
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I'd put up a heck of a decent fight to find food, water etc... and assuming I could find those, I'd be ok for as long as they held out. I completely lack any sort of hunting skills, though, and if a bear got hungry, I'd be dinner.
Here. This is, quite possibly, my favourite joke ever:
The Christian Bear
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. As he continued walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes. Turning to look, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. Looking over his shoulder he saw that the bear was closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster.
He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him. At that instant the atheist cried out: "Oh my God..."
Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.
It was then that a bright light shone down upon the man and a voice came out of the sky saying: "You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps, could you make the bear a Christian?"
"Very well," said the voice.
The light went out.
And the sounds of the forest resumed.
Then the bear lowered his paw, bowed his head and spoke: "Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive and for which I am truly thankful. Amen."
Here. This is, quite possibly, my favourite joke ever:
The Christian Bear
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. As he continued walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes. Turning to look, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. Looking over his shoulder he saw that the bear was closing in on him. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster.
He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear raising his paw to take a swipe at him. At that instant the atheist cried out: "Oh my God..."
Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.
It was then that a bright light shone down upon the man and a voice came out of the sky saying: "You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps, could you make the bear a Christian?"
"Very well," said the voice.
The light went out.
And the sounds of the forest resumed.
Then the bear lowered his paw, bowed his head and spoke: "Lord, bless this food which I am about to receive and for which I am truly thankful. Amen."
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