Originally Posted by
Eurodriver
I'm not turning this into a debate, I'm merely discussing different survival strategies.
Now, I've said it before and I'll admit right now that I have yet to ever see snow. The coldest temps I've ever felt were 17* in Iraq.
However, it seems to me like it would be much easier to survive a post-government SHTF situation in Alaska than Florida for several reasons:
1) Heat in the summer, and lack of potable fresh water. The only thing that will kill you faster than this is a Grizzley, but we have alligators and snakes. Like slab said, you've got glacier fed rivers all over the place. Not to mention ice and snow that can be melted.
2) Population density. 18,000,000 people gonna need a place to go, things to eat, water to drink. There aren't that many cows, squirrels, deer, etc to go around.
In a true SHTF situation, I don't really care about bugs. I care about resources, and Alaska has a lot less people competing for them than FL does.