Posted on 09/19/2013 9:14:50 PM PDT by Kartographer
My wife took the kids out-of-town for a week.
Now I need to restock some of my SHTF food supplies!
Anyone who goes to Mexico should have their head examined. Toilet with killers.
Agreed ‘gator. When the SHTF the big city folk are gonna be 100% screwed. From what I have read regarding the Fed’s SOP when the SHTF, their blocking of roads out will be of their highest priority. Within hours vehicle movement out will be impossible and thus keep most people bottled up and trapped there. It is part of their ‘plan’. They want the herd thinned and penning them up into out of control hell on earth large city will accomplish that very quickly. The folks that do have a survival place to go had better be prepped and ready to roll FAST if they expect to make it out.
I live in the midst of a People’s Republic.....
Boulder?
bttt
And yet your beliefs are the same as MSM. You ate up all the post-Katrina MSM hype and believe it even to this day.
I didn’t “eat up” any MSM hype. What are you talking about? You have no idea what I believe “to this day”. Buzz off.
So why can't they figure out how to get all of the Gringos out of the area within a week?
and you can’t be armed there. no thanks.
” I haven’t heard anything regarding what the State Dept is doing to get U.S. citizens home.”
As a US citizen who has lived outside the US for a long time I can tell you they will do nothing. They won’t arrange a flight. They won’t let you shelter in an embassy they won’t provide you with any aide at all.
Actually, it looks calm in Acapulco considering the power is out and the roads are blocked, preventing regular food from coming in.
I split my time between Florida and Colombia. Should the SHTF S Fl. would be the WORST place to be. Ive tried to convince my wife of the need to be prepared while in S Florida but her mindset is “this is America” and all is OK. But then she also knows and says so often “this isnt the same country as it was 30 yrs ago”.
I stock up as best I can but do you ever have enough?
South Florida would be fine if you were on a boat. Fishing. Lots of distance from objects and life forms.
With a solar fresh water distillation rig.
True
On the other hand, there wasn’t any looting or panic that I’m aware of in Colorado. So I think the takeaway is that certain areas have the proclivity to act within character. Not to say it wouldn’t happen here, but I think this behavior is more likely to initiate quickly in areas already prone to that behavior. Even in Mexico here police said people were looting just to steal not to survive in any sense. But I know, given enough time, and most any situation will degrade. The issue is how rapidly will the decent occur.
“The only reasons we tolerate them is 1) supposed cheap labor which, of course, is really paid for by the tax payers through welfare (suck it corporations and if we need cheap illegal labor then why does the gov’t keep raising the minimum wage?)” It’s never mentioned but I’ve been told by Contractor friends that it ties into union labors wages.
People tend to be restrained *until* that moment when they no longer believe that they are going to be able to eat or live.
It isn’t so much that food is cut off (or not), but that they think that food will never come.
...as soon as people panic, the old order is forgotten.
I’m just outside of a city now, and while I’d need water in pretty short order I’ve got food I could eat for a couple of weeks.
Concur.
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