Three: Shelter
You will need a shelter of one form or another to live in after the doomsday event. Without shelter you will have to construct one of your own, which isn’t hard but is certainly time consuming. Time that would be far better spent doing other things. However, one thing is for sure living out in the open is not recommended.
You may have planned to live in your own home post doomsday. However, if your house is anywhere remotely urban this is not a good idea. Cities, towns, villages are not good places to be in the event of a breakdown of social order. Mob rule will take over and your carefully laid plans will soon be ruined as the mob comes in search of food.
Ideally you need some form of secret hideaway as far away from people as you can find (more on location later.) Your shelter needs to be big enough to have everything that you need stored away inside. Your food store needs to be in your shelter for example (obvious but it needs to be clear.) It is pointless having your food store inside your main home if you aren’t going to be staying there post doomsday. You simply won’t have time to pack up the car before you leave. Your shelter needs to be easily heated; ideally with an option of at least two heat sources. Finally it needs to be as secure as possible. This may mean shutters being nailed over windows. This is a decision that you need to take depending on the circumstances.
It really isn’t a good idea to decide to live in a tent post doomsday. You simply aren’t secure enough and there is no way you will be able to store everything that you might need. There is no harm in having a tent or tents as part of an emergency kit. A tent will obviously give you protection from the elements and is far preferable than sleeping outside, but it is not a viable long term solution.
A motorhome type vehicle is actually a very good idea. You can have the required stores already in the vehicle ready for use and then simply drive to your chosen location at the given time. You just won’t need the big television that most motorhomes come with these days.
Obviously the ideal shelter to sit out any doomsday event is a bunker. It may be the case you want to look into the possibility of building your own bunker. (Again, there is nowhere near enough space in this book to do this.) Be warned building your own bunker is going to be EXPENSIVE. However, what price do you put on survival? There are reports on the internet (okay not most reliable of information sources at times) that China finishes a new bunker every single week. All of this is in preparation for a doomsday event. Some reports even say that within five years they will have created enough bunker space to house their entire population.
Whatever route you choose, you need to consider and more importantly action your solution now. Who knows when it will be needed? The sooner you are prepared, the better!