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[ergophobe]

Find an old Boy Scout handbook

Better yet, get my friend Mat's book "When Technology Fails"

Mat is an MIT-trained engineer with a foray into green building and lots of other domains. Tons of patents. At a certain point he woke up at night and the idea for this book came to him and he took two years off from all other work to research it.

http://www.whentechfails.com/

[Brad]

Our town sewer system relies on a series of pumping stations to get the stuff to the treatment plant. Pumps and plant all rely on electricity.

There are first few hectic days or weeks in a disaster, where one is waiting to see when or if services will be restored, its probably good to have something for short term.  There are some good tips in the Amazon camp toilet reviews about what works and the importance of clumping kitty litter.

[JasonD]

I live on the South Downs, a National Park in the UK.

http://www.southdowns.gov.uk/

My plans are to run around screaming like a madman, hoping the local farmer hasn't moved his sheep to somewhere safe, so at least I can go and nab myself a lamb / some mutton, after reading extensive manuals (that I don't have) on how on earth to trap and kill an animal. Once slaughtered, I'll aim to use the fleece for warmth and as kindling to start a fire, created from a Brillo pad (steel wool with soap in) connected to a PPV 9v battery to warm the family and cook the lamb.

Water will be an issue once we've run out from the 2 rain water butts we have, however I feel confident I could create a reverse osmosis filter with some gaffer tape, coffee filter, some rubber from the kids bike inner tube and a length of hose to gain drinkable water from the sea.

I also feel confident I can use my raspberry pi as an intrusion detection system powered from solar alarming me to lamb and water thieves (IE those not as prepared as me) and beat them senseless with my washing line prop (no baseball bats or big stick things here)

Hmmm... My plan may need some work

[BoL]

>sewage

Haven't put much thought into it, but upstream definitely now sounds like a plan.

[Gurtie]

assuming you have a bucket and a garden I think a short term sewage malfunction would be dealt with pretty easily (plus I ive at the top of a big hill, I'm thinking I'd be ok on the backup front for a bit)