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From your link to James Rawlings - In the event of a grid-down collapse, you might have to hunker down in a blacked-out house on a property with spring water or a shallow well for 18 to 24 months. This will necessitate living with absolutely no outside contact or resupply. Unless you have the requisite deep larder and a big wood (or coal) pile, then you are likely to become a statistic. Why 18 to 24 months? I predict that it will take two winters for your neighbors to eat up all the food in their pantries, then the local livestock and wild game, then their pets, and then perhaps even each other.

Sorry, but I don't agree with him on this. A blacked out house isn't so blacked out with smoke from a wood fire billowing up. I also suspect it would take a matter of weeks rather than his 2 years for most to eat through their pantries and most won't have a clue about wild game. Puleez, can you see some killing their precious darling pets??? No way. I've looked on liberal sites and by and large they had rather die than protect or provide for their children. Also, I wish he wouldn't keep telling people to go west. The west is filling up too quickly as it is.

Sorry, but I don't agree with him on this. A blacked out house isn't so...

I'd hate having to ride out a "die-off" in a "blacked out" house. I think maybe he was using that scenario to get folks to seriously consider moving to a location away from population centers and around like minded folks.

Seems like to me, that it wouldn't be long before you would wind up at the table of some gold tooth warlord as the main course.

For some people, it should be possible to go literally underground near large cities or population centers. The Vietcong were pretty good at hiding in tunnels under our noses. I remember stories of Japanese soldiers hiding out for years on American occupied islands after the war. For most though, it isn't an option.

IMO, the best bet would be for constitutional leaning folks to relocate to areas of the country that would offer a sustainable existence, defense and safety in numbers. Kinda like what Mr. Rawlings suggests...

I believe a certain Russian professor predicted just such a breakup of the US.