Sarge, I gave up on needing or wanting to know those answers, as they have no meaning in my preps. I assume the collapse is coming tomorrow, so what do I need to get right now to shore up any section of my preps? So, I will get “x’ or more of “x” and in a few days, I'll think of something else I need to shore up, so I get “x” or more of “x”.
As far as how it will look, I don't care as I'll be locked away in my house, having disappeared from view. That is when “my world” takes over and I'm not in the other foreign world outside. My house and garden is my John Galt world, depending on myself as President For Life of my world, and not needing anything from the foreign world outside.
I will have communication so I can get foreign world news - foreign meaning anything outside my own world.
I have a sense of peace since I don't care when or how it happens because I can't control that. I prepared and that was all I could do.
Yeah but “when” has been predicted since 1998. My wife;s family had to survive winter with the food in the basement from the garden. Welcome to real prepping.