Once you understand that, you'll want to organize an early warning network. Assuming your cell phones are not working, there are commercial radios that are quite handy, depending on the distance and line of sight. When we used to go into certain neighborhoods in Baghdad, there would be early warning networks run by kids. They'd radio or text each other. Some places would use air horns or smoke. Another would even release a big flock of pidgeons from a certain rooftop. Doesn't really matter, so long as you have a way to warn the neighborhood that outsiders are poking around.
More than anything, I'd avoid the temptation to make your house and family a lone fortress. Looters will dissolve in the face of organized resistance. I can't stress that enough. A common defense between 5 families is 10x stronger than 5 lone families.
Eastern Washington, don’t think so.....you surely wouldn’t trust anything that you see on the Internet would you?
For early warning we are using a network of fishing line run through the trees for miles around with bells on the end. Don’t think radios will be secure but those we will keep for back up.
Anyone who pulls on them without knowing what they are will alert us to their presence. Not only that, we can use them to detect the presence of game movements.
Hopefully we will have 40 people there to defend, but if someone reaches up, it is going to be the shoot and scoot all the way
They are going to have to be some stone cold elite killers to reach where we will be. Even with 40 people, I don’t want to confront that.