[factoryrat]

If things here were really to go to hell in a handbasket, college courses would be the least of anyone’s worries. If some version of a shooting war broke out in the US, life as you know it would pretty much grind to a screeching halt. Fuel? Power? Electricity and utilites? Communications? Transportation? Those would be the first targets of a destroy the command, control, and infrastructure campaign by an oppresive army.

[silverleaf]

and if sdhtf you got 9 years worth of rice to dine on
and I've got my kids tuition savings (or “start her own life” savings) not in paper notes, but in a commodity that will rise and fall and generally keep up with inflation....I hope

but if shtf, I figure I can bury or pack the value of an entire dry good cache and a small farm in West Virginia in a coffee can or backpack and dole out the junk silver along the way there

good luck hiding your survival cache of dry goods and barter items like boots and whiskey from an oppressive army, rambo, since you won't be hauling them much of anywhere. They're already using drones, ya know