How many of those meds are critical to you, that you could buy in advance and store in the refrigerator?
Since vitamins have such a long shelf life I like to keep about 2 years ahead, and I rotate them through a little box in the refrigerator that I keep some stuff in, for long term storage.
You have some things going for you there, a gated community, old but steady people around you, a gated community with clearly defined boundaries to outsiders, firm lines that make a a few old men with guns have more authority and more obvious ownership rights.
Something that all the older people have that they sometimes don’t realize is a huge asset, is that while they lose out on youth and strength and energy, they also don’t have to feed the fuel consuming body of a 22 year old male, while they were starving in Korean POW camps, it was noticed that our young men didn’t do very well and died the most, their metabolism had a much harder time being deprived of food.
There is a lot of intelligence and resourcefulness and experience among older people living in a gated community, and something of a proven record revealed in their long lives, in some ways your “group” could be one of the better, of the “stay in place” prepping situations.
I think the time has come for someone (me) to talk to some of my fellow gym rats to talk up organizing some type of militia.
Our community backs up to FL turnpike. I can see bumper-to-bumper traffic just outside my wall and with people getting stuck there for days, scaling our wall and looking for food.
Let's hope the "S" doesn't "HTF" for some time.