Where I am at in a rural area, water will never be a problem.
Not sure what they mean by beans and rice mentality but that is two of the things I have just begun to stockpile, along with sugar, salt, spam and a lot of spices.
I like guns and ammo, I have more ammo than I will ever need no matter what. I have no intention of shooting anyone who is not an immediate threat to my life. I do realize that hunting will be a very ineffective way to provide food not very long after a catastrophe.
Actually I don’t foresee any time when food and necessities are completely unobtainable. Just that they may be very expensive and I may not have much of an income.
I just canned 14 more pints of rainbow trout last Saturday. That puts me up to about 30.
I'll be addressing that in my Poverty Cooking series chapter 2 that will be posted on the Friday Prepper thread. I was working on that today. ;)
/johnny
Most of the common spices one needs can be grown in almost any climate.
I live in NY and in my garden I have sage, thyme, lemon thyme, and oregano and they are perennials.
Parsley is a biannual and reseeds itself very effectively.
Basil and rosemary are annuals in this climate but basil can be grown from seed easy enough and it’s not too hard to grow enough to be able to harvest your own and dry it for the year.
I grow my own garlic which does very well in this climate as well and that is also very easy to propagate.
And since I use all the fertilized I can get from my farmer friends, it’s all *organic* (oooohhh.... ahhhhh...)
Ground water may protect from fallout better than surface water.