Trying my hand at being creative. I like the conflict cards but in a disaster, hopefully, we are going to have to spend much more time creatively solving problems than battling aggressive neighbors or roving gangs. In a scenario where resources are limited but problems aren't, preps likely won't cover the long term basics for everything so you will be forced to look around you to figure out a solution. So for these threads, I'll try to present a problem and sometimes I'll post up a list of resources or just say use what is immediately around you such as in your garage or nearby and easily recoverable. The idea here is to be creative with a very finite amount of "stuff" you have around you and that the replies spark some "ah ha" moments in the rest of us so if we do find ourselves in one of these situations, we might think back to these threads as inspiration. So let's give it a try!
A disaster has struck a year ago, your preps have run dry and you are transistioning into a self-sustainance mode. You are growing your own food in a small garden plot but struggling with drought. There is a small stream that generally at least has standing water several hundred feet away but you are killing yourself bringing in water and are beginning to wonder if you are using more calories than you are getting from the garden. You need to find a way to get the water to the garden to water your plants but with limited fuel stocks, hauling it in a car/truck seems wasteful. There are several abandoned houses/cars in the immediate area that have no food but do contain typical house hold items and applicances. You have the tool set of an advanced DIYer including a stick welder/generator, a good compliment of hand tools with some advanced tools for wood and steel fabrication (miter saws, chop saws, etc). You have about 10 gallons of fuel but there is a possibility that some of the other vehicles have fuel on board but it seems slime that any fuel you do find will still be good.
Requirement: Design a solution using any items that you might find which will reliability transport water to the garden on demand without using all of your remaining fuel reserves which you might need for other things soon. Describe your plan in some detail so someone might commit it to memory and attempt to repeat it.
Part of this is to have fun and part is to expand knowledge. Since this is the first time out and we will be tweaking as we go along, feel free to ask questions in this one but mostly know that any answer that solves the above requirements is the right answer and all will be recognized.
A disaster has struck a year ago, your preps have run dry and you are transistioning into a self-sustainance mode. You are growing your own food in a small garden plot but struggling with drought. There is a small stream that generally at least has standing water several hundred feet away but you are killing yourself bringing in water and are beginning to wonder if you are using more calories than you are getting from the garden. You need to find a way to get the water to the garden to water your plants but with limited fuel stocks, hauling it in a car/truck seems wasteful. There are several abandoned houses/cars in the immediate area that have no food but do contain typical house hold items and applicances. You have the tool set of an advanced DIYer including a stick welder/generator, a good compliment of hand tools with some advanced tools for wood and steel fabrication (miter saws, chop saws, etc). You have about 10 gallons of fuel but there is a possibility that some of the other vehicles have fuel on board but it seems slime that any fuel you do find will still be good.
Requirement: Design a solution using any items that you might find which will reliability transport water to the garden on demand without using all of your remaining fuel reserves which you might need for other things soon. Describe your plan in some detail so someone might commit it to memory and attempt to repeat it.
Part of this is to have fun and part is to expand knowledge. Since this is the first time out and we will be tweaking as we go along, feel free to ask questions in this one but mostly know that any answer that solves the above requirements is the right answer and all will be recognized.
