Alaska During the Apocalypse...Is Alaska The Best Place to Live if Society Collapses??

Have you though about what Alaska would be like in the apocalypse? Would Alaska be a good place to live? Where would Alaskans get food, shelter, warmth, etc. if society suddenly collapses? Well let's talk about it and throw some theories out there!
Jamin Goecker
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[@alaska_realtor]

How do you see things shaking out?

[@dollydog5]

I've thought about this topic a lot, as let's face it, things just feel unstable and tenuous. There are many things that could take the grid down. In many ways, the number 1 threat is other people. AK is removed from so many of the major population centers and is already ahead of the game because of that. No matter where people are, there will be die off and competition for resources.

[@DenialandError]

Hey Jamin! Loved the video and it’s worrying that this is the topic on seemingly everyone’s mind these days (which is why I made my YT channel somewhat about it). I’ve got good news and bad news about Solar flares (Coronal Mass Ejections). Put simply, they cause damage to electronics through the principles of Induction. Similar to a car alternator, spinning magnets through a series of copper coils produces energy to charge your battery. A CME moves the magnetic field of earth at a high speed cause conductive materials like copper wire to harvest electricity through the movement of the field. This means that the power grid and any thing plugged into it would be fried with an incredibly large electric pulse along with all sensitive electronics depending on the wiring configuration. The arc jumps will cause a lot of house and Forrest fires. Batteries would still work but a lot of vehicles and communication devices wouldn’t but almost certainly some would. Especially older vehicles, spark plugs would also likely be fine and new in the box ones would definitely be fine. If your phone wasn’t plugged into the wall it might also m still work but not the WiFi or cell towers. What will and won’t work will largely depend on the condition in the exposed wiring and the magnitude of the CME. You can always protect electronics in a faraday cage too. EMP wave lengths are different so different things would be affected (there’s different E Ratings). As a fellow Alaskan and talking with FEMA planners/ military personnel up here doing training for just this scenario this year the government is largely going to shift to continuity of government roll which means they’re going to control small areas like military bases simply because they don’t have enough resources to do anything. Everyone else is on there own for a minimum of 9mo in the absolute most optimistic projections of this scenario in order to rebuild substations for the return of a power grid assuming southern regions are less compromised due to magnetic pole distance. This happened on a very small scale to Quebec in the early 2000s and not the magnitude of CME im talking about. Realistically we’re on our own for a few years in the event of a Carington class CME. Anchorage will be hell on earth in two weeks in this scenario. FEMA’s own study says in this scenario 90% of the us population will die in the first year. No electricity means No food, no water in the city, no medical, no police, no heat, no gas, no resupply. Not many people have any survival skills at all these days. FEMA/the government can’t handle a hurricane in normal times they logically are incapable of handling something anywhere near this level of disaster. It’s a horrific reality that happens regularly every 1-2 hundred years and the last significant one was in 1859. It’s not a matter of if but a matter of when. As scary as it is it’s still not something to let rule your life but you should have a plan and prepare for it. Even if it doesn’t happen in your life time you’ll still be prepared for a ton of other probabilities like War, economic crisis, pandemics, earthquakes, volcanoes, nukes and much more. I hate to say it but we live in a fragile society with complex systems and supply chains. History is filled with catastrophic events and normalcy bias make us think it can’t happen or get real bad real quick but it certainly can and will at some point. No growth is perpetually smooth and linear without volatility just like the stock market I think it prudent and wise to be diversified/hedged for such volatility. Alaska has its trade offs but isn’t a bad place for the “apocalypse” due to abundance of natural resources and low population density in most areas. All that being said I’m not an expert, just an electricity/science nerd thats been researching this stuff as a hobby for many years now so I figured I’d pass along things to think about or look into.

[@bigmanTEXAS]

This is why I am looking at Alaska

[@alaska_realtor]

Heck yeah! We’ll do some doomsday planning when you get here 😃

[@iShowUnusualBehavior]

This is one of the reasons for me too, hopefully that doesn’t happen. I like the idea of a slower pace of life and all the outdoor/hunting/fishing opportunities. Also maybe less family members asking for money or to stay with me.

[@SimplySharla]

I was in EMS 13+ years! It's always good to have an EMS pack loaded with supplies. 😊 and knowing how and when to use them! 😉 This was a cool video. Lol

[@borispetkau1246]

I'm carnivore, don't need all the garbage what makes us sick. Meat, fish, eggs .

[@AlaskaSoundRecordist]

I see you have acoustic foam on your studio wall. So you have the full video production set up? I grew up in Palmer, used to make real estate tour videos before KZbin. I heartlily recommend Turkey Red, Bigfoot Art Gallery & Rent-A-Geek, all on main drag! Great videos, take your camera out into Palmer!

[@honolulugator]

Do you see an influx or an exodus of Alaska in a doomsday scenario? Winter makes me think an exodus, but more room to spread out than the rockies or lower coastal areas (Mexico).

[@alaska_realtor]

That’s a great question….I’d say we would likely see a migration of people leaving, but not the first year. It would be an enormous undertaking to leave AK by foot, so it probably wouldn’t be until the second year. Also, maybe no one would leave at all. Even if it were really challenging, there’s very little or no communication with the lower-48. Would people be willing to make that trip without knowing what it’s like? I couldn’t say but there’s something to be said for people opting for the devil they know vs. the one they don’t.

[@honolulugator]

@@alaska_realtorthoughtful and true. Every flick shows people heading for the hills if life is not restored in a certain period of time. Being on an island where your best chance is heading to see like Kevin Costner’s WaterWorld, I’d rather not think too long about it 😅

[@zonaholsters802]

That was definitely a fun video.

[@user-qk2bz8gr9w]

Interesting topic, Jamin. I'll throw out the suggestion that people consider taking multiple first aid courses (i.e. regular, wilderness, child, pet, etc.) and stock up on essential first aid supplies. It's useful knowledge no matter what. I just did a quick internet search, and apparently major solar flares can be predicted about 3 days out giving companies and governments time to take steps to protect grids and satellites. I hope that is true, so maybe the solar flare scenario won't be apocalyptic.

[@Chris_at_Home]

There is a good course offered here called Learn to Return. They also do winter survival courses. Where I worked they sent us to it.

[@alaska_realtor]

I'll likely look into one of those and I hope that's the case. I wonder how they would protect against a solar flare if it's really powerful?

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@alaska_realtor I don’t think a solar flare would affect a cabin electrical system. They usually affect things like power grids, pipelines and even undersea fiber optic cables. EMPs are another matter. We have an off road place that has solar. It is easy to heat with all 6” airtight walls. Even the floor is well insulated. We have a small wood stove and the property is against a few square miles of uninhabited land with more than enough dead fall close by. Our big consumable out there is propane for cooking and refrigeration. In the summer we run a freezer on solar. On a sunny day we can run our small washing machine including pump on solar power with the inverter.

[@badger6817]

You’re describing the churn…during peace time, the tribe is huge (civilization). During chaos the tribe becomes your immediate family and, if you’re lucky, friends and neighbors

[@alaska_realtor]

Yup. I wonder how long we would be in that state. EVENTUALLY we'd move beyond that and establish governance again, but whether it takes us days weeks, months, years...who knows?

[@badger6817]

@@alaska_realtor …my personal opinion is it will last 3 months max…if it happens at all. I don’t believe we’ll ever see wholesale use of nukes (too much valuable real estate involved) because the puppeteers are terrified of losing control

[@Chris_at_Home]

The rest of the country won’t care about the less than a million people in Alaska when they have their own provision problems. Many people don’t have enough food to last a few days never mind a year. Many people will head to their off-road cabins.

[@alaska_realtor]

That is very true. I'll likely stock up on at least a few things after making this video to be on the safe side....

[@Chris_at_Home]

@@alaska_realtor Get some buckets of dried food. You can always supplement that with fish and game. Even small game with a dried soup mix makes the preserved food last longer. The big game will be gone in no time. We have lots of black bear at our remote place. A berry fed black bear is tasty. Also get some preserved seeds and tools to grow. We have a greenhouse at our home and we are already getting zucchini squash.

[@karmathephoenix2474]

You brought up some really good points. Definitely something to think about.

[@alaska_realtor]

Thank you!

[@elizabethfernandez6065]

Solar panels baby LOL

[@Huspree2011]

"I don't think that all government is just going to completely break down, and just necessarily even if it was a really bad scenario like that, we would just immediately go straight feral like clan tribe style." 2005's New Orleans would like a word with you, specifically about the super-dome during Hurricane Katrina.

[@alaska_realtor]

Hopefully we don't have an occasion to find out.

[@mamabear1260]

I am glad your eyes a.r.e w.i.d.e. o.p.e.n. Many Blessings ❤❤ Jason

[@patrickcoyne1292]

probably not. the entirety of the state just takes advantage of one another.

[@alaska_realtor]

You know, I guess it would really depend on the individuals in each community. On the bright side, we are so spread out communities would have a lot of resources close by. Depends on the specific community, I guess though.

[@FreeStatePatriotTt]

Russia is taking Alaska. China is taking Hawaii.

[@DenialandError]

That’s almost every Alaskans red dawn wet dream! But also highly unlikely due to the logistical constraints alone of an invading and occupying force. Neither have a blue water navy, Air Force or economies to support the necessary military equipment buildup. Not to mention the demographic constraints to their populations. We’d love for them to open up that no bag limit hunting season for us up here though.