Natural Disaster Survivors

[ReclusParticipant 96]

This thread is a call out to MGTOW members who have survived natural disasters. I thought it might be a good place to share experiences and lessons, particularly those learned from having to deal with the powers that be in the aftermath of a disaster.

I’ll start with my own experiences. During a disaster around my way a few years ago, my property was “red zoned” by the local council: based on a summary assessment by a council officer, I was made homeless through the application of a few felt-tip scribbles onto a piece of red paper, which was taped to my house. Under local laws, once your property is red zoned, you cannot re-enter it or you will be subject to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. If you re-enter your home while emergency laws are still in force, the council can have you cuffed and arrested on the spot. It took me several weeks and several thousand dollars in lawyers’ and engineers’ fees, but I got that sticker, and another one that the council tried to impose, removed.

The lesson I learned is that a natural disaster, when it happens, is the least of your worries: it is the bureaucrats and busy-bodies who descend on you in its aftermath that are the real threat to your well-being. I also learned that, if you are suddenly made homeless like that, those people in your community who did not lose their homes will treat you like a 2nd-class citizen. It is something I will never forget.

[foolsgoldParticipant 5659]

I have survived but didn’t own property at the time. Yes, I was treated like s~~~. My situation was unique. I had money but was temporarily homeless. I lived in my car for two weeks before I found a place to stay. The same people who treated me like s~~~ wondered how I got a nicer place than them. Assholes. I might add that this was the time I found out the truth about the phrase “keeping up with the Jones’s. The Jones’s were the ones that were broke.

[UntamedParticipant]

I was in the mosque of El Asnam, Algeria with my father and brother when that huge 7.2 earthquake hit in 1980. I was 10 and thought the world was ending.
The Imam kept yelling “Stay in here, don’t go out!” and that’s what we did. We held fast to a pillar and prayed to the Master of the Universe to spare our miserable lives while everything swayed madly around and underneath us.
Most of us who stayed in the mosque lived but the city was utterly destroyed and nearly 5000 people died and countless injured including my brother.
They ended up rebuilding the city higher up the hill, on more solid ground.
I learned that day that destruction comes suddenly, hardly ever with warning, that any day can be our last and to cherish the morning light when it comes.

That wasn’t going to be the last earthquake I found myself in as I lived near L.A for a good while.
The 1992 7.3 Landers earthquake rattled my teeth and the tree in my backyard as well. I only had seconds to grab my year-old daughter and jump in the tumb. Thankfully the house did not fall on us.

Then there was the 1994 Northridge earthquake, just a burp really, but I saw our street cracking up like a dry riverbed and the ground swayed for a very long time after the initial shock. Mag. 2.3 can still bring a wall down atop of you as my neighbor found out. He lived.
We had Farmer’s Insurance and I couldn’t complain, for once.

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[Anonymous 54]

Ive been in a Tornado and a Flash Flood.
No damage were I lived.
The tornado was wild ass.
The flash flood, felt like life was trying to flush me down a drain.
I didnt like it at all.

Two feet of rain in 18 hours.
22 Dead.

I didnt go to the lake for years afterwards.

[Anonymous 42]

Missed by an F-4 10 miles away but had family that was severely affected with extensive property damage. Stuck in a truck during a blizzard and never made it home, after hours of crawling around stuck cars blocking the way I made it to a friends house, I drove the truck off the road and onto the sidewalk to get it out of the way, the next morning it was totally covered in an enormous snow drift, I spent the next morning shoveling it out by hand only to have it burried by a loader plowing the main road I was on, I was lucky, the side streets remained buried for days!

Irene passed over me and destroyed the roads and bridges to my home in Vermont, that was heart wrenching to see all the people that lost everything. I couldn’t get in for a month before the road was passable and delayed the completion of the house for another year, all our material was covered and left for the winter snows to cover, and cover they did! 12ft of accumulated snow!

Here’s a few photos I snapped. That event made me a full on prepper!

In fact I have to unload a couple steam radiators I’m gonna use for the creation of synthetic gas (pyrolisis) to run a generator on wood chips indefinitely! For now I only have a week supply of fuel if I ran it 24/7. My goal is to become self sufficient in case we end up like Puerto Rico!

[Anonymous 54]

Anonymous wrote:

Missed by an F-4 10 miles away but had family that was severely affected with extensive property damage.

What year?

[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Hurricane country. Don’t know how many I have been it over the years. Locally every year TV, Radio, any and all forms of public communication tells people to get a kit ready. Food, water, batteries, flash lights, battery operated radio, extra medications if you take any, basic medical supplies. If you have pets then food and water for them. The state even goes so far as to have a tax free weekend so you can stock up.
After and just in case,.. a boat and chain saw. Boat if flooding and chain saw to start removing all the trees that have been blown down.

It would be a good idea to have a kit almost everywhere.

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[ReclusParticipant 96]

Old Sage: Yes, it was a flood that caused all the trouble around my way a few years ago. The water was as high as the roofs of various houses. Some people literally watched their possessions floating down the river. It was a horrible situation.

foolsgold: I had a similar experience to you; roughing it while people looked down their noses at me as “poor white trash”, not knowing that I was keeping my business running via a laptop and cellphone, and also covering the thousands of dollars of costs involved in fighting the council. Then when I got back into my home, various people who had shunned me started being all nicey-nice and wondered why I was giving them the cold shoulder in return. Going through a natural disaster is a good acid test for finding out who your real friends are.

Untamed: I have been in several major earthquakes too (6.3 to 6.8 on the Richter Scale). What the outcome is really depends on where you are when it hits. The last one I was in, I was standing at an intersection with two vacant lots on two corners and single-storey buildings on the other two corners. Safe as safe could be! I then walked home (my apartment was OK), prepared my bug-out bag, and went to sleep with my clothes on in case a bigger one hit. Fortunately it didn’t.

MG-(etc.) (great photos!) and 743 Roadmaster: I have been in a cyclone in the South Pacific: waking up at 2 am to go to the outhouse, noticing everything was strangely calm, and going out and looking up the middle of the eye of the cyclone while answering the call of nature is one of the strangest experiences I have ever had. That one was not to too serious: it took off roofs, smashed windows and demolished various homes but no one got killed fortunately.
I keep disaster supplies on hand, but you never know where you will be when a disaster hits: during one of the earthquakes I was actually on holiday in California; ditto in the case of the South Pacific cyclone. And you never know what you will need until you actually need it. Here is something I have never seen in the various survivalist guides providing lists of things to have: if you do not have running water and your pipes are busted, an inflatable bath-sized child’s padding pool is really useful. I found it far more practical than those little solar-heated shower bags (which won’t heat up water if you are living through a storm in winter).

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