[Errant]

Have you seen this recent post by James Rawlings? It's thought provoking.

Letter Re: Prospects for the Eastern U.S. in a Societal Collapse

[Uncle Ike]

From your link...

“In the absence of grid power, only after the population has dropped to a reasonable carrying capacity will there be any chance of a recovery and a return to law and order.”

[MattinNJ]

I think 80% of the East Coast will kill each other within 3months. Getting ready myself

[dfwgator]

James Burke in “Connections” described what would happen if the Grid went out over 30 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H-w9Rm46o

[bgill]

From your link to James Rawlings - In the event of a grid-down collapse, you might have to hunker down in a blacked-out house on a property with spring water or a shallow well for 18 to 24 months. This will necessitate living with absolutely no outside contact or resupply. Unless you have the requisite deep larder and a big wood (or coal) pile, then you are likely to become a statistic. Why 18 to 24 months? I predict that it will take two winters for your neighbors to eat up all the food in their pantries, then the local livestock and wild game, then their pets, and then perhaps even each other.

Sorry, but I don't agree with him on this. A blacked out house isn't so blacked out with smoke from a wood fire billowing up. I also suspect it would take a matter of weeks rather than his 2 years for most to eat through their pantries and most won't have a clue about wild game. Puleez, can you see some killing their precious darling pets??? No way. I've looked on liberal sites and by and large they had rather die than protect or provide for their children. Also, I wish he wouldn't keep telling people to go west. The west is filling up too quickly as it is.