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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.

What your family members who scoff don't understand is that circumstances this time are unique - the nation's credit card has been maxed out.

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:

It takes 40lbs of wood to boil 5 gallons of water - this is the reason you don't want to count on boiling water for purification.
Don't count on a bottle of bleach, because it has a more limited shelf life than most people realize.
Using calcium hypochlorite is a two-step process. In the first step you make a batch of bleach, in the second step you use the bleach to purify water (and do other things, such as sanitization, etc).

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.