When the infrastructure of the world goes flushing down the drain, what are you going to do?
I am mainly worried about the power grid, but anything could be the catalyst for The End Of The World As We Know It, otherwise known as When Shit Hits The Fan.
If a SHTF situation arises I have enough to last a month, maybe more with a little creative stretching, at my house without relying on my neighbors or local government. I could be better off, but I could be worse. I have water, food, light and heat. I also have a few means of transportation and getting out of dodge with those items I would need to survive. This is very important because you might need to scamper due to fire or overly aggressive persons from other areas descending like locusts upon you and your neighbors who are holding out okay, or maybe just better than others.
I also have the means to protect me and mine and our resources. I have enough to do those things for a limited, but very effective, period of time. I will leave that point alone for a later post.
For a longer and more problematic situation, where law and order stop at the point of a gun or your ability to provide such enforcement, you will have to scavenge or glean. There will be riots, more than likely not touched off by you. There will be fires that destroy part of a house or supermarket, hopefully not caused by you. These things will happen when our society stops thinking that our communities, rules and regulations can adequately take care of what we consider precious. They will be touched off by a frustrated man wanting to but unable to afford the inflated price of food, a mother who has the items in her cart snactched from her cart by another, equally mother. The list of reasons why riots are touched off is endless and full of reasons from understandable to downright ridiculous, but the riots will happen.
For most of us that will be when we have no food, water or money to purchase the previous two items. Rules tend to go out the window when your family is at stake. I know what I consider to be my essentials: shelter, food, water, heat, water reclamation, mobility and the ability to defend my ownership of such things.
What are your priorities? Make them now before you have them made for you.
