Bottom line - you better have A LOT of stuff stored up (I have 4 years worth of everything non-perishable that I can think of) and be ready to defend it...
I would imagine as much a supply of needed medicines (in the case of say someone who has to inject insulin for diabetes, insulin and needles, for instance) as possible in case they are not available?
And for food as much dry and canned food as possible?
“And for food as much dry and canned food as possible?”
To a point. The problem with food is that it is hard to store...gets real boring if you want to cycle through it (i.e., eat it), takes up a lot room, can get bugs...etc.
I keep a couple of hundred pounds of rice, but not much over a month of other supplies...if we run out of food in this country, I might just take myself out. But I don’t see that happening...it’s MUCH MORE LIKELY that we will get price controls (as people scream to DO SOMETHING), and then the shortages which are assured. It’s really a matter of comfort level...do you want to wait in a 2-hour line to buy soap, when you could have purchased 5-years worth for next to nothing (which is really what it costs now), just before the crash?? If there are food lines, so be it...I could stand to lose a few pounds anyway.
Finally, it doesn’t hurt to come up with a plan for water collection and purification, as that often goes bye-bye in bad days, and you have to wait for trucks to show up. Here in hurricane country I’ve done that anyway.