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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Walmart or similar has food, tools, guns, ammo, chemicals, and the building can be secured via steel shutters.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

First week gonna be a lot of smoking meats, and canning/preserving lots of fruits and vegetables.

Dairy coolers and frozen gotta be emptied as soon as power goes unless you can rig enough solar/gas generated power for them.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah but the materials you have to work with are a little limited. At least around me, Walmart doesn't carry much in the way of stuff like lumber, pipe, or other building materials, and there's gonna be some gaps in the tools available, I don't think most Walmarts carry welders around me, and even if they do you certainly wouldn't be able to get the gases you need for MIG/TIG welding there, and you might want that if you, for example, need to repair those steel shutters.

And most Walmarts around me actually don't carry guns.

And you can't grow too much food on a parking lot, you can try to work with containers and potting soil of course, but odds are a school is gonna have more land you can easily convert to a food plot or maybe even the plumbing parts to get some kind of hydroponics system going.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Ok so we need a Walmart that's between a college campus and hardware store with a lumberyard.