[Old Sarge]

We will not have a week of normality before the Gibsmedats come boiling out of the urban kraals.

We will not have three days of Walmart "just-in-time" inventory to feed the hordes and keep them sated.

We will have only HOURS. History teaches us this:

1965 - Los Angeles - the arrest of a young black man in Watts incites a crowd, which spawns a riot, within one hour of the arrest (60 mins.)

1968 - across America - the death of Martin Luther King touches off rioting in several cities within hours of the media broadcast(Less than 3 hours);

1977 - New York - the grid goes offline at 9:30PM, the looting starts around 11PM (90 mins.);

1992 - Miami - Hurricane Andrew's winds haven't even died down before the malls are ransacked;

1992 - Los Angeles - the verdict is announced for the Rodney King Trial, and almost immediately, the city burns (Less than 60 mins.);

2005 - New Orleans - the looting started even before the storm made landfall;

2011 - London - a protest over a slain gangbanger turns violent and Greater London descends into mayhem (4 hrs.);

2012 - Long Island, NY - in the wake of Frankenstorm, enterprising looters dressed as powerline repairmen sneak past the martial law cordon and pillage, with 24 hours of the storm;

2013 - Oakland, CA - less than fifty minutes after the verdict in the Zimmerman Trial is announced, mass demonstrations "spontaneously" erupt, but in Oakland, fires and unrest break out (Less than 50 mins.);

2013 - Across America - the EBT card networks shuts down in 17 states, and in three states, looting begins (Less than 24 hours);

2014 - Ferguson, MO - A police officer shoots and kills a black youth, and after a public vigil, stores are burned and looted (18 hrs.);

Hours, people - not days, hours.

[PA Engineer]

Hours, people - not days, hours.

Seems like the best place to add this. Get your preps together for months and not days.

Yesterday on the Pandemic Flu Information forum was an article about Sierra Leone. This is ground zero for the pandemic in Western Africa. There are reports now of people beginning to go hungry because of the lockdown of the boarders. No trucks in or out, farmers unable to gather their crops and markets closing.

This is also a good site to monitor about the ongoing epidemic.

[GeronL]

We might have hours but many of us won’t know for hours either.

[dynachrome]

“not days, hours”

Might take ‘em a day to loot the big city near (too near) where I live, then they will come boiling out.

[WhirlwindAttack]

Just imagine what would happen if something happened to 0dumbo.

[Finatic]

2001 - Cincinnati Ohio. 3 days of riots and looting over the shooting of unarmed teen with arrest warrants.

See tagline.

[ealgeone]

This is an excellent post and very illustrative of just how quickly things can fall apart.

I was in the ATL when Rodney king's verdict was read. The local radio stations were telling commuters to avoid the interstate running through downtown due to riots happening.

I remember perimeter being very crowded as I left ATL to head south for home that day. All I had for self-defense were a set of golf clubs.