When the SHTF, I’ll be sunk. I’m 72, sort of disabled and a city boy through and through. I have about 12 prescription meds I have to take daily. I have a couple of handguns and maybe 500 rounds. My wife hates guns and I’m hoping she’ll change her mind when the bad guys are on the wire. We live in a gated retirement community. Some of my fellow gym rats could be counted on. There are a lot of vets but it’s been like 50+ years. Let’s hope FLNG can keep us safe.
How many of those meds are critical to you, that you could buy in advance and store in the refrigerator?
Since vitamins have such a long shelf life I like to keep about 2 years ahead, and I rotate them through a little box in the refrigerator that I keep some stuff in, for long term storage.
You have some things going for you there, a gated community, old but steady people around you, a gated community with clearly defined boundaries to outsiders, firm lines that make a a few old men with guns have more authority and more obvious ownership rights.
Something that all the older people have that they sometimes don’t realize is a huge asset, is that while they lose out on youth and strength and energy, they also don’t have to feed the fuel consuming body of a 22 year old male, while they were starving in Korean POW camps, it was noticed that our young men didn’t do very well and died the most, their metabolism had a much harder time being deprived of food.
There is a lot of intelligence and resourcefulness and experience among older people living in a gated community, and something of a proven record revealed in their long lives, in some ways your “group” could be one of the better, of the “stay in place” prepping situations.
Once the moochers and gangstas mob up and head out of the urban core in large Wolf Packs it's going to be tough for any of us they can find.