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In case you didn't have enuf 2 worry about...
sleek:
Actually as i put more thought into it, im wrong about the roads being safe at first. Thats where the panic will start. Every one on the road will be stranded. Panic will happen tjere immediately. Back to hiding in the woods.
With the trip being so dangerous, and me so far away, why am i risking the trip home? Unless my family is not with me, im staying put.
Josh B:
On your first point....I figured you would come to that realization with a little more thought. However it won't just be on the roads. Ever see what happens to store inventories when a hurricane is coming? That should tell you a lot about just how unprepared most people are even for temporary inconveniences. Now think nationwide, no power grid, no trucks bringing the necessities and probably no controlling legal authority. That thin blue line is way to thin in the best of times.
That brings us to your second point. Aside from you being far from kith and kin and them needing you home ASAP being a key point to the proposed scenario, even if you were with your family but far from home staying put means becoming a refugee relying on the benevolence and generosity of strangers who don't know you or trust you and have little to nothing to give if they did. Think about the word "refugee" do you really want to have that term apply to you and your family? Just more food for thought. Josh
sleek:
Pays to have a bug out bag and plan. My wife and i have a set meeting place should we ever get seperated due to an event.
Josh B:
--- Quote from: sleek on July 14, 2016, 03:11:01 pm ---Pays to have a bug out bag and plan. My wife and i have a set meeting place should we ever get seperated due to an event.
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The fact that your wife will even consider the possibility of a disaster with long term ramifications puts you well ahead of me in preparedness. My wife won't even entertain the hint of a hypothetical SHTF scenario. As far as she's concerned Wal-Mart will always be 5 miles away and will always have anything she needs. It's frustrating to say the least. Josh
sleek:
I hope she is right. But i dont think so. It doesnt take mich for this house of cards to fall. It has before. WWI and II great depression, Revolutionary and Civil war. Those were on a national and world scale. Then look at smaller areas like Ferguson Mo, with man made chaos based on geo political events. Or natural disasters like Katrina.
Fact. There WILL be times in all areas where thestores are not an option. For how long depends only on severity of the problem and reaction to it. Politics can escalate a benign one into a large one if a point is to be made of it.
In the gear list, we would be sucking if we didnt have at least two pair of shoes. I went through two pair in the last 3 month just working. You need your feet healthy and dry. A second pair can save you.
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