The Stand: What would you do?

[Kingfisher]

It's a simple enough question. If you were involved in the events of The Stand, but survived Captain Tripps, what would you do? Assuming you didn't get any prophetic dreams, where would you be and what kind of things would you do to get through life? Bonus question: If you got the dreams, would you be heading to Boulder or Vegas (and be honest!).

I would probably live in a library. There'd probably be no corpses to clean out, and I'd have all of eternity to read...I'd be like Henry Beamish except I can still read without glasses.

If I had a dream, I'd probably end up in Boulder because you can basically do whatever it is you please there unless it's directly harming someone.

 

[kingricefan]

I know GNTLGNT would be camped out in Steve's kitchen.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

I know GNTLGNT would be camped out in Steve's kitchen.....

...with ALL da cookies...

 

[GNTLGNT]

...seriously, if I were to gravitate-it would be toward Boulder...however, given my own druthers-it would be to my parent's place...lots of game, easily defensible, a well and plenty of hand tools and batteries...oh, and canned goods-my dad's nuts about laying in canned goods....

 

[skimom2]

Same place that I'd go during the zombie apocalypse: my aunt's property in WY. Lots of farms about, lots of game, backed up to a trout stream with a reservoir nearby, HUGE pantry that's always full (they're too far out of any town to make a 'quick run' for anything), weapons and tools galore (Hey, it's hunting ready area, and the people are handy), and not many neighbors anywhere nearby. Plus my uncle is a big reader, so there are quite a few books there--lol. I'm pretty sure his house is the first place I saw the name 'Stephen King' on a book, actually (thanks, Uncle Ron )

Given my Stand druthers, I'd be in Boulder.

 

[Kingfisher]

...seriously, if I were to gravitate-it would be toward Boulder...however, given my own druthers-it would be to my parent's place...lots of game, easily defensible, a well and plenty of hand tools and batteries...oh, and canned goods-my dad's nuts about laying in canned goods....

Is that out of sentimentality or because it's familiar? The way I understood it that the world wasn't too dangerous awhile after the outbreak (excluding that roving band of slavers in the uncut version) so you could basically be anywhere and be ok. I think the biggest danger would be wild dogs, traps left by the dead (there was a whole town of traps in the book), or disease. Nobody ever seemed to have a problem getting food or water as everything in the world was left right where it was.

Good answer though, I'm coming over there when the zombie apocalypse happens.

 

[SharonC]

Same place that I'd go during the zombie apocalypse: my aunt's property in WY. Lots of farms about, lots of game, backed up to a trout stream with a reservoir nearby, HUGE pantry that's always full (they're too far out of any town to make a 'quick run' for anything), weapons and tools galore (Hey, it's hunting ready area, and the people are handy), and not many neighbors anywhere nearby. Plus my uncle is a big reader, so there are quite a few books there--lol. I'm pretty sure his house is the first place I saw the name 'Stephen King' on a book, actually (thanks, Uncle Ron )

Given my Stand druthers, I'd be in Boulder.

If I don't make it to Boulder, can I come stay with you?

 

[RandallFlagg19]

I live about a 15 - 20 minute drive from boulder Colorado, I would head to boulder. I admit I wouldn't be a leader, political activist. Id most likely find some dead rich folks mansion to squat in and pillage the liquor store and head shops on my way their.

I obviously lack survival skills or; I would pillage a grocery store and pharmacy , instead of a liquor store and headshop.

 

[ghost19]

I think I'd head back down to Southern Arkansas where I'm originally from, back somewhere in the Ouachita Mountains. Far enough south where the winters wouldn't be too harsh to ride out. There's a stream that runs right out the mountains that's clear and cold, plenty of fish to catch. I'd have to re-learn how to use a crossbow, or find a way to silence a couple of my rifles. Don't want anyone coming back into the hills looking for me There's lots of run down old moonshiner's shacks that you could shore up and probably live in.

 

[RandallFlagg19]

I nominate GNTLGNT and Spideyman as leader type

OK there are a lot of good leader types on the forum, but I am a follower type, so one of you leader type would be burdened with the responibilty of adopting me, voluntarily or involuntarily.

 

[Grandpa]

I'd find a place with a water source nearby, wood-fired stove, fairly close to the remaining canned goods in the area. I've got a friend with a ranch and ranch houses that would do. If not, I'd find another place.

I'd get a firearm, finally, and matches, lighters, newspapers (kindling), an axe, a hatchet, a Kabar, insulated clothes and bedding, dehydrated food from a local outfitting store (REI, Sierra Trading Post, Jax, whatever), medical kits, space heaters, lanterns, a siphon, snowshoes, cross-country skis, generator, plenty of rope and bungies, and set up.

I'd probably try to accumulate a dirt bike, an ATV, a snowmobile, and four-wheeler and see how long I could go on motorized transport. I wouldn't be as clever about siphoning gas from a station as they were in the book, so it would be more like the Mad Max thing, getting fuel from abandoned vehicles. I'd get some books on gardening, butchering, and purifying water, as well as the generator owner's manual, and start reading up.

I'd stock up on bottled water and other bottled, nonrefrigerated fluids. If liquor stores still had stock on the shelves, I might never run out of single-malt scotch, but no matter how much there is, it has to be rationed carefully, becaise this would be the wrong time to develop a big problem with it.


If the dreams called, I'd go to Boulder. It's just right down the road.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I nominate GNTLGNT and Spideyman as leader type

OK there are a lot of good leader types on the forum, but I am a follower type, so one of you leader type would be burdened with the responibilty of adopting me, voluntarily or involuntarily.

I'd head to CO, NV, WY, or UT. They'd be the least affected when all the nuclear powerplants melt down.

 

[Dana Jean]

I would try to whore myself out to some macho dude. Unfortunately I can't compete with the young pretty things, so I would have to kill them first.

 

[skimom2]

If I don't make it to Boulder, can I come stay with you?

For sure!

 

[Kurben]

If i had dreams, Boulder for sure. If i hadn't (and happened to be in the US i probably someday knock on the door at Skimoms place and say Please..... . If i was still in sweden i probably gravitate south. warmer winters. But no clear idea where to.

 

[SharonC]

If i had dreams, Boulder for sure. If i hadn't (and happened to be in the US i probably someday knock on the door at Skimoms place and say Please..... . If i was still in sweden i probably gravitate south. warmer winters. But no clear idea where to.

Keep it quiet. That's where I'm headed too. We don't want too many people showing up.

 

[Flat Matt]

Given that I haven't read The Stand and have absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about, I'd probably just follow GNTLGNT wherever he went... as I often do... with my camera... and binoculars.

 

[Grandpa]

I'd head to CO, NV, WY, or UT. They'd be the least affected when all the nuclear powerplants melt down.

Friend's got a big house, huge house, and other single-family structures on the property. Close to a river, but out of the thousand-year floodplain. Might even have some cattle to harvest and a garden to kill. The Front Range of Colorado has decent water and not nearly as harsh weather as the other places. We could barbeque, drink pilfered alcohol, and complain that there's no politics to debate anymore.

 

[staropeace]

I live about a 15 - 20 minute drive from boulder Colorado, I would head to boulder. I admit I wouldn't be a leader, political activist. Id most likely find some dead rich folks mansion to squat in and pillage the liquor store and head shops on my way their.

I obviously lack survival skills or; I would pillage a grocery store and pharmacy , instead of a liquor store and headshop.

I could have written this post for my answer.

 

[Kingfisher]

Given that I haven't read The Stand and have absolutely no idea what anyone is talking about, I'd probably just follow GNTLGNT wherever he went... as I often do... with my camera... and binoculars.

Never read The Stand? Is that even legal?