We went to a Oath Keepers meeting last night, and the founder Stuart Rhodes spoke. He said it’s not IF a collapse is coming, but WHEN. Ferfal is right when he says the first step is to mentally accept that it can, and will, happen. I have family members who scoff and say, “People have been saying this kind of thing for years.” Which is true, AND they were right! It’s just taken a while for all of the horrifically bad government fiscal policies to catch up with us, and soon we’ll be cornered with nowhere else to go.
Preparedness/Survival ping!
I've been running a preparedness group in Central Florida for the past 18 months, so I study and prepare on a daily basis. Let me recommend a low cost and very critical purchase to everyone, calcium hypochlorite. A small bag of this can purify your family's water for YEARS.
Many municipalities use calcium hypochlorite to purify city water supplies. Commercially it is most often sold as 'pool shock', however you must select a product carefully to make sure it truly is calcium hypochlorite, and that it doesn't have harmful additives (e.g. algaecides, etc).
One of our group members located a good, low-cost source. The price was so good that I ordered ten bags just yesterday. Here's the source:
http://www.poolgeek.com/GLB-Super-Charge-P2273.aspx
Other things to know:
Calcium hypochlorite is one of the essentials for the serious prepper. If you obtain it be sure to look up instructions for using it to purify water on the Internet and have them printed somewhere for future reference.