I’m closing in on the big 7-0. My wife and I are entirely dependent on a cocktail of meds that we have to take daily to keep on keeping on. I’m lightly armed, handguns only, with a few hundred rounds of .38 and 9mm ammo. My wife hates guns. We can store several hundred pounds of canned goods, filtered water and tp in the garage. Any hope of hopping in my wife’s newer Mazda and heading up I-95 toward West Palm Beach would be like trying to drive in a parking lot. Ditto The Turnpike and US441. If I were to go further west, I’d need a swamp buggy. My town has had a spate of carjackings and home invasions which I’m sure would deteriorate should there be a breakdown in law and order during a natural or man-made disaster. I guess the best way to cope in such a situation would be collective security. I don’t know many of my neighbors, but there are a few cars in our gated community with military decals so it might not be a bad idea to meet with fellow vets and get organized. One young fellow up the street is a Marine veteran of the battle of Fallujah. I just had a defibrillator placed in my chest so I’m no longer capable of crawling around, playing commando. I just hope nothing like this happens.
Amen. Hard times suck.
I am blessed that I'm back in the neighborhood that I grew up in, and know pretty much everybody. And every tree and fence and garden in the surrounding area.
/johnny
Ax, you do the best you can. We are all dependent on each other to some degree. A SHTF scenario won’t change that. In fact, it makes that dependence all the more clear I think.
There was thread here a week or so ago about bugging out, i.e. escaping into the wilderness during an emergency. The premise was that this is foolish in most cases, because very, very few people have the skills necessary to survive in the wild. Hunkering down in one’s own neighborhood with like minded neighbors is probably a better plan in most cases.