[blam]

"I may be wrong but I think those that have no plan and at the last minute decide to head for rural areas will likely not have the skills to get out of the chaos in the city and get to a real rural area."

Yes. My friends and neighbors have talked about this some and have decided that a lot of 'killing' in the city will occur before anyone uninvited and dangerous shows up.
We've also decided that those that do eventually begin to show up are the survivors of that first round of 'killing' and are likely to be some pretty bad company.

We'll be sitting up road blocks while they're busy in the city with the first round.

I suuurree hope it doesn't come to this...

[Tammy8]

There is a family story that my great great grandmother kept raiding Union soldiers away from her farm because she shot one and had his head on a post at the end of the road to her place. May not be true but might be effective.