2) Assign Job Roles

One thing you can guarantee about a nuclear disaster is that most of humanity will enter a flat-spin with pure ball-retracting-panic. If you are with your family or a group of friends you need to assign everyone a role so that you can complete multiple tasks in unison. Kind of like the A-Team, in fact, if you hum the A-Team theme tune whilst you conduct your activities you will probably raise morale substantially.

Not only will this be efficient when carrying out tasks, it means you’re less likely to start arguing. You all have your own job to do and can just get on with it. Arguments are not going to help anyone and they’ll slow down your prepping no end. And remember, you’re going to be stuck with these people for the foreseeable future, so try to get along.

Your first ports of call are food, water and shelter; so once you’ve decided who’s Murdoch and who’s Face get allocating…