This is me after shooting an arrow at a fake zombie. After a couple shots I hit it between the eyes. CREDIT: National Geographic Channels Every night the world ends, and every morning it begins anew. Or so the ancient Maya believed. On Monday night, Oct. 29, when the sun went down, the world inside my apartment in Manhattan's East Village still consisted of the comforts of electricity and momentary concerns: How bad would Hurricane Sandy be? Had I bought enough food? And why did Breaking Bad on Netflix keep pausing to buffer? Then, without warning, the lights went out. Blackness. I made my way about that night with flashlights and candles and awoke to a new day without power or cellphone reception. I walked to work in the Flatiron District to find out that it too was without power. I called my mom, my first contact with the outside world, who told me the extent of the blackout, and how bad the coastal areas had been hit. Indeed, the world, at least in the tri-state area, would never be quite the same. Doomsday flight cancelled Then came the voicemail (which I accessed north of 20th street, where I still got service) telling me my US Airways flight had been cancelled. This struck me as ironic: The flight was to take me to West Virginia to meet and interview people featured on Doomsday Preppers, and learn how to survive an apocalyptic scenario. Luckily, I was able to find another journalist with whom to carpool down to West Virginia, passing miles of blacked-out buildings, downed trees and hours-long lines for gas, on our way out of the city. After eight hours, we arrived in White Sulphur Springs at an event hosted by the National Geographic Channel in anticipation of the second season of Doomsday Preppers, a show that debuts today ( Nov. 13) at 9 p.m. ET and profiles extreme survivalists who believe the world as we know it may soon end. As part of the day-and-a-half.
Hiroshima, 1945. Photograph: A Peace Memorial Museum Handout/ EPA What if modern civilisation were to collapse tomorrow? What could you do to provide for yourself – what could any of us do – if food no longer magically appeared in the supermarket, or clothes on shop hangers, or the power-grid and gas and water supplies vanished? If you were to wake up after a global catastrophe that toppled civilisation, with the vast majority of humanity gone, what would you be able to do to help the post-apocalyptic community recover? What knowledge would you need not only to avert another dark age, but accelerate the rebooting of a technological civilisation from scratch?1. Survive the immediate aftermath Food will remain preserved for decades in tin cans on the shelves of deserted supermarkets, so your primary concern will not be sustenance. The one piece of information that will help you more than any other in the immediate aftermath is germ theory – the idea that contagious diseases are spread by invisibly small organisms invading your body. As with any disaster, disease will be a particular concern – given the unrecovered corpses and contaminated water supplies. Drinking water can be sterilised by boiling, of course, but this takes a lot of time and fuel. Water can be disinfected with iodine tablets foraged from any camping store, or even household bleach or swimming pool chlorine, greatly diluted. Filter murky water through a drum filled with layers of charcoal and sand before you disinfect it. Just washing your hands can prevent a huge number of gastrointestinal and pulmonary diseases, and in the longer term, as you settle down again, you must ensure that your water supply is not contaminated upstream by your own, or anyone else's, excrement. It seems simple enough, but even this wasn't appreciated as late as the mid-19th century.2. Leave the cities Aside from the stench of.
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