Doomsday preppers discussion

Your in the woods, you have nothing but a cell phone that has no signal, a peice of string and a knife. How do you survive and get rescued?

i would straight away find food and build a shelter before dark comes.I can use the knife for food and the string for(i don't know)

String rocks leaves makes traps also wood for fire

good thinking Chloe

Where do you get the food?

Chloé天才 Ƨнα∂σωнʋитɛяǤιяℓ ♉ wrote: "I'll do a Hunger Games style and climb the tree, camp up there where your more safe.
I'll tie the string to the cell phone and then tie it high above the tree. (If this even works, like those pape..."

Yea! ;)

Quickly look for food maybe hunt using my knife, then I would climb a tree and stay their using the rope to climb so it's not as tiring :p
And as for the phone.. Hmm maybe I would find a signal if i move around the area?
Yeah I would basically just die with these brilliant ideas :pp

If a bear runs at you, what do you do to get away?

I don't think that would work

I would run in a diagonal line away from the bear, because bears can't change direction that well

Side step :)

If you were intruded by a person in the woods who was out to kill you, what would you do?

It really depends on how close they are when they attack

Hey, yall! I just joined the group. This looks like fun!

"Your in the woods, you have nothing but a cell phone that has no signal, a peice of string and a knife. How do you survive and get rescued?"

I am basing my answer on this time of year, type of forest nearby, and my own crappy, service almost nowhere phone.

Birch and bamboo are both in my area, so I would use my knife to cut a piece of bamboo into a long beaker. I would then tap a birch for sap to collect in the cup. (I'd return to retrieve later.)
If the weather looked good, I would take some of the birch bark, collected wood, etc. for fire prep. Assuming the string is from my survival bracelet, I would make a bow to make the fire with. Time permitting, I would then focus on shelter. Food could wait until tomorrow.
My phone would likely be off, either to conserve battery until I am out of the woods, or because the crappy battery already died.

If you see holes in my plan, feel free to point them out, but I think I covered the bases. :)

You definitely did!
Ok, the world has just ended, but you've survived. The world is a barren wasteland. You had, in no way prepared for this. What do you do first?

Find weapons.

Paigetwo *Caitlyn* wrote: "Find weapons."

Where do you look first?

In the closet police station or liquor store.

Okay, you go to one of those places, but there are no weapons left, then what?

Concentrate on the knife. Your priority is building a shelter and hewing wood for a fire. This is why a hand-axe is way better in the woods than a knife is. What you have is a very tedious chore ahead of you; cutting down small trees and trimming limbs with a knife is a pain-in-the-ass. Shelters are easy to construct, once you have the wood; but getting the wood takes time. So, start immediately.

From the phone, maybe you can get a lens somehow and use sunlight to start a fire. Otherwise its the old indian technique. Sure, the string might help with that. But you still need wood, and fast, and plenty of it; before the sun goes down.

The next day, you can construct spears or other makeshift weapons for self-defense, hunting, or fishing; possibly the string can be used as a fishing line if you can devise a hook. Break open the phone and lift out some of the circuitry to twist into shape for that.