2. I just did something that I strongly recommend all of you consider doing. I just put new tires on my vehicle. I could have gotten another 15k out of the set I had, but I thought it best to just get it done now. I also upgraded to a very high-quality snow/offroading sort of a hybrid tire - very aggressive tread without being a full-on Blizzak-type snow tire, so I'm good to go for my climate, year-round, for another 70k miles at minimum. Tires are one of those things that are very easy to overlook and forget about - but if you find yourself in need of them, they suddenly become very important. If we have a collapse, you don't want to be stuck driving around on slicks just waiting for a blowout because no one has any tires and there is no way to get any.
My plans calls for some of you to abandon your cars...I’ll use the batteries from the cars for electrical storage from solar cells.