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nobbie48

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Imagine if you were in a corporate meeting three or so years ago and someone suggested planning ahead for an unknown earth shattering event of some sort. How would the discussion go beside a lot of ridicule?

Personally, dump assets, sell your house and stocks. Dump your toy boats and cottages, cash will be king. Clean up with cash in a few years.

Corporately would you scale back or go full speed ahead

What is the game plan for the next big event of unknown proportion and type? Comet or asteroid strike? War? Terrorist attack? Alien invaders?

I honestly feel the scientists did a fabulous job on C-19. The results would have been even better if the politicians weren't trying for personal gain. I hope the ones that brought us through will be with us for the next crisis.
 
nobbie48 said:
Corporately would you scale back or go full speed ahead
What is the game plan for the next big event of unknown proportion and type? Comet or asteroid strike? War? Terrorist attack? Alien invaders?
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There is a whole segment of corporate management called Business Continuity Planning. Most large companies have a department dedicated to prevention and countermeasures, disaster response/recovery and a plan for resumption of normal business.

Obviously, you can't plan for every specific disaster, be it war, asteroid strike or pandemic, but there are common assets and processes that can be be identified and protected, and BCP is an integral part of any corporation or entity.
 
Lightcycle said:
There is a whole segment of corporate management called Business Continuity Planning. Most large companies have a department dedicated to prevention and countermeasures, disaster response/recovery and a plan for resumption of normal business.

Obviously, you can't plan for every specific disaster, be it war, asteroid strike or pandemic, but there are common assets and processes that can be be identified and protected, and BCP is an integral part of any corporation or entity.
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I'd keep every asset I own. As with covid, supply becomes stressed and stuff becomes more expensive.
 
Selling off the house and cottage would have been a very bad decision with the current event. Both have increased in value almost exponentially. Had you sold those assets you would never be able to get back into the real estate market.

Cash may be King, but supply issues are the trump card!
 
Would kinda depend on what the event was.

If it's a planet-destroyer meteoroid type thing.....sell the house and everything in it, buy a big land-yacht coach and a huge trailer...and drive around and enjoy and enjoy life and see things. Before anyone else knows, stock the ever loving **** out of the trailer so far as shelf stable food, water, guns, and fuel so one can remain completely independent and safe. Once the panic starts setting in, drive the whole thing into the middle of nowhere near a river or water source of some point (somewhere where nobody's going to find you, and on the slim chance they do...guns) and sit back in a comfy recliner and watch the light get brighter and brighter.
 
One of the places I worked, conveniently had their backup computer centre in the neighboring tower to their main centre.
This was before 911.
 
Assets > cash. Knowledge > assets.

Personally the thing that has me most concerned in the medium term is political upheaval. The next crisis isn't likely to be an asteroid strike or supervolcano or something else that nature has in store for us. It'll be mankind doing something to ourselves.
 
I guess hoarding toilet paper isn't such a bad idea. Because if the world does go up in flames it will be in short supply and that simple comfort will be well worth it!
 
It's probably no different than controlling rodents. Take away thier food, water and shelter, and they are done.
Can you keep yourself in check with also three? Not as easy as it sounds.
 
sburns said:
I guess hoarding toilet paper isn't such a bad idea. Because if the world does go up in flames it will be in short supply and that simple comfort will be well worth it!
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Nature provides all sorts of options.

But this is where Brian's "Knowledge is worth more than assets" thing comes into play. A huge percentage of the developed worlds population wouldn't last a month in the face of a serious disaster where society breaks down, there's no electricity or running water, and the food supply suddenly stops.

Others will just gather up relevant supplies and head off into the woods to escape the collapse and all the insanity that will come with it. Nature provides. It might not be the comfy existence we've become accustomed to, but those with the right skill sets will be just fine. And if they're savvy and have the right things on hand when they head off, life can actually be reasonably comfortable even, all things considered.

But given how many people I've seen who literally can't function if their internet goes down, much less when the hydro goes off (spend some time on a community FB forum and see how helpless people demonstrate themselves to be when that happens, it's scary), well, a lot of people aren't gonna make it.

I saw someone a month ago on a local FB community group freaking out during a few hour power outage here because they were worried their fridge contents were going to go bad. It was 2 degrees outside. Someone suggested they just put their stuff.....outside. This is how deep thinking some people are anymore.
 
BTW the title is "The Next Doomsday" did we miss the first one?
 
Other fails.
The Diefenbunker.
Avro Arrow.
The DEW line.
 
The next “Doomsday” will be the United Army of Arizona coming to steal Lake Ontario for their golf courses.
 
They will empty lake Michigan and Superior first , and since it would flow south out of Chicago the mafia would keep them busy for a decade.

Me , I would go to St Barths and bang bored single (or not) , hot rich girls till the end came. Or at least drink all thier Hieneken and pass out in the hot tub . Yeah , probably the latter .
 
jc100 said:
The next “Doomsday” will be the United Army of Arizona coming to steal Lake Ontario for their golf courses.
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You've been reading up on the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead and the Colorado River, a creek at best if it ever gets to Mexico.

If the water level drops another hundred feet in Lake Mead, Hoover stops generating electricity. Drought, no power, and no water being pumped to California cities and farms.

All those electric cars and no electricity to power them. If they don't run they don't generate emissions.

Somewhere I read the the Army Corp of Engineers had calculated an exercise on filling in the Grand Canyon, likely as a lark. I have no doubt that the US will (Again) ignore the Great Lakes Treaty and already have plans in place to ship water south.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Nature provides all sorts of options.
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It sure does, but who really know's how to live of the land? Sure I have done some camping can probably get by, maybe even you can as well. But just look at your previous post it still depends on a lot of comfort items. RV, stocking food, water etc. Heck if it all blows up, and you are within an urban area like the GTA you will be competing for those items in the middle of chaos. If anything the Indigenous population would fair better then the rest of us because some of them still practice this skill. Maybe this is how they re-claim the land with the doomsday of modern society.
 
sburns said:
Sure I have done some camping can probably get by, maybe even you can as well. But just look at your previous post it still depends on a lot of comfort items. RV, stocking food, water etc
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The initial response with the RV etc was based on getting a tip-off of what was coming ahead of everyone else, which is what I thought I’d read Nobbie had presented it as, but wasn’t upon re-reading things.

I agree it would change things if you didn’t have the advance notice. But my initial impulse would be still to bug out with the little camper and some tents and find a quiet place in the far north with the fam while the initial collapse and resulting insanity worked it’s way through society.

Collect what we can while on our way beyond what survival equipment I don’t already own and would pack.

I’m pretty savvy so far as off-the-land survival beyond that.
 
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