How long could you survive if you were trapped in your house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I randomly saw a trailer for some Netflix movie called "The Last House" about a family that was legit trapped in their house for over 1,000 days. Got me to thinking about how long we could survive in our house if we couldn't leave but still had electricity and water. We currently have 3 full fridges with attached freezers, plus a chest freezer and a tall freezer. Plus a full pantry and additional excess food in the basement pantry. We are a family of 5. I would think we could make it at least a year? Maybe more if we actually rationed our food.

You have too much food. It will expire before it can be eaten.

I could survive a month with what I have on hand.

Thanks for the movie recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our house in Alexandria, maybe a year if we push it.

At our cabin in Greene County, Va, pretty much indefinitely. We have 11 acres, well, septic, fenced garden space 20 x 20, a basement with probably 500-700 cans of food stuffs, tons of meds (both of us are docs) lots of guns and 400-500 rounds of ammo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our house in Alexandria, maybe a year if we push it.

At our cabin in Greene County, Va, pretty much indefinitely. We have 11 acres, well, septic, fenced garden space 20 x 20, a basement with probably 500-700 cans of food stuffs, tons of meds (both of us are docs) lots of guns and 400-500 rounds of ammo.

Struck a nerve, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our house in Alexandria, maybe a year if we push it.

At our cabin in Greene County, Va, pretty much indefinitely. We have 11 acres, well, septic, fenced garden space 20 x 20, a basement with probably 500-700 cans of food stuffs, tons of meds (both of us are docs) lots of guns and 400-500 rounds of ammo.

Struck a nerve, huh?

Nah, just hate braggarts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t leave my house for weeks but as long as I can get food and other deliveries I can last forever.

You totally missed the point.

I didn't as I am pretty much trapped in my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t leave my house for weeks but as long as I can get food and other deliveries I can last forever.

You totally missed the point.

I didn't as I am pretty much trapped in my house.

If you can get deliveries, have power and water, you aren't stuck, dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our house in Alexandria, maybe a year if we push it.

At our cabin in Greene County, Va, pretty much indefinitely. We have 11 acres, well, septic, fenced garden space 20 x 20, a basement with probably 500-700 cans of food stuffs, tons of meds (both of us are docs) lots of guns and 400-500 rounds of ammo.

Struck a nerve, huh?

Nah, just hate braggarts.

Bragging? About a cabin on a well and septic in Greene County?

Bro, your life must be sad af if that is bragging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t leave my house for weeks but as long as I can get food and other deliveries I can last forever.

You totally missed the point.

LOL. She did but it was funny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t leave my house for weeks but as long as I can get food and other deliveries I can last forever.

You totally missed the point.

I didn't as I am pretty much trapped in my house.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"We currently have 3 full fridges with attached freezers, plus a chest freezer and a tall freezer. Plus a full pantry and additional excess food in the basement pantry."

Wt..? Why?

+1 the bigger question is why do you have so much food? You can't eat all of it before its expires. Why do you live like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our house in Alexandria, maybe a year if we push it.

At our cabin in Greene County, Va, pretty much indefinitely. We have 11 acres, well, septic, fenced garden space 20 x 20, a basement with probably 500-700 cans of food stuffs, tons of meds (both of us are docs) lots of guns and 400-500 rounds of ammo.

I don't believe anyone lives like this. A years worth of food in an Alexandria house? Ok lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"We currently have 3 full fridges with attached freezers, plus a chest freezer and a tall freezer. Plus a full pantry and additional excess food in the basement pantry."

Wt..? Why?

+1 the bigger question is why do you have so much food? You can't eat all of it before its expires. Why do you live like that?

We have 3 growing kids - summer has started. They eat NON STOP.

Frozen food won't expire. We eat through our fresh food/fruit in about a week or week and a half.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we allowed in the yard? Maybe a year. We grow fruits and veg and have chickens

Tough to do in the winter.

They over winter. But yeah our horrible neighbors would just kill them and eat them

[Anonymous]

SFH in MOCO. Assuming that power, water, sewer, and natural gas keeps flowing AND that we are allowed in the yard (bc garden) we would probably make it a year (hi, Alexandria poster) but the last six months might not be pretty.
We have a fair amount of meat in a basement freezer, and the kids and i like beans and we have a bunch of those. We also have a fair amount of nonperishables and we’d probably need to ration them but we would “survive.”

My spouse has a medication that we can only get in monthly amounts, it’s not lifesaving but without it, they are pretty quickly going to be useless in a SHTF type situation. Jokingly though, if we can’t leave the property, that won’t really be an issue bc i will kill them within a month.

Water would be the most limiting factor, I think. Without a reliable source of potable water, we might make it a week unless there was some sort of way to distill rainwater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"We currently have 3 full fridges with attached freezers, plus a chest freezer and a tall freezer. Plus a full pantry and additional excess food in the basement pantry."

Wt..? Why?

+1 the bigger question is why do you have so much food? You can't eat all of it before its expires. Why do you live like that?

We have 3 growing kids - summer has started. They eat NON STOP.

Frozen food won't expire. We eat through our fresh food/fruit in about a week or week and a half.

IME, frozen food does expire. Especially with several freezers full.