If this week’s power outage here in the state is any indication, I hope I have moved by the time the SHTF.
Rich liberals sure do whine a lot.
My power was out 24 hours and my mother’s 5 days. Upper-middle class blue staters in our neighborhoods and they coped well and cheerfully. Worst was a couple I only read about, who had a generator: “Doesn’t the power company know they are costing us money? We have to eat out every night.” Heck, my mother ate peanut butter sandwiches and heated canned soup on a Sterno can before she came to stay with us.
If it’s long enough that the high crime areas get hungry, it will be a different story. I read one town of 25,000 only had 5 registered handguns; it’s not the kind of place that has a lot of unregistered guns either. I’d rather live surrounded by armed rednecks when it all goes up (and intend to move there soon.)
Community is the key, not holing up in some well-stocked shelter. When money fails, the barter economy begins. The important thing is to have an important skill to barter and to have a wide network of contacts who have other skills and can benefit from yours.
Have a plan to start working when everything around you stops working.
Heh, I heard that! Hubby thinks they won't be that much of a problem, because the folks who whined so much about the outages will be the first to starve to death, or freeze to death, waiting for someone to take care of them.
OTOH, they have a lot of stuff and are rarely armed.