Are you afraid that the hordes will come to where you are for the water and game? Do you and your neighbors have some kind of alliance, to cut off the road, to band together, to have a plan in place?
Thank-you.
If something really bad happens most people with be in the first die off in about 6 weeks. After that there won’t be much left. Keep in mind the average household has less than 2 weeks of food in the pantry. Most people that have no food have no weapons either. They are the 45% of Obamanation and they will be the first die off.
I’m wondering about restoring the rule of law, eventually, after things get ugly.
I imagine it would happen in a neighborhood sense rather quickly, certainly within two months. There would be relatively few crimes: murder, rape, robbery/burglary/theft. There would be relatively few punishments: death, death, death for outsiders or perhaps stocks/flogging for minor offenses by members of the community.
There would initially be no taxes, but that would change as a larger area banded together. I doubt there would be any government welfare for over a hundred years - that would be left to charity (a distinct improvement because it allows for virtue in giving and shame in receiving except due to abject need).
Roads would be maintained through tolls.
One-room schools would likely come back after only a few years. One person could specialize in teaching reading, writing, math, science, history, and civics, watching the youngest kids while the rest of the community produced other goods and services (and paid the teacher). That might not always last to age 18, just until kids were old enough for a trade in many cases.
Trade would grow from barter to precious metals very quickly - someone can grow enough wheat to feed a hundred families easily but cannot fend for himself nearly as well. Trade is where we get something better than mere survival.
Well, there are lots of creeks and springs (esp when it rains) so there is plenty of H2O. There is a spring above me that provides water to about eight families.
The game might be a problem ie eventually game will be gone from the killing.
Re an alliance. No. But I wonder if the neighbors who are all related do have an alliance. We have not talked about it. But i think it is smart to do what u say: cut off the road. I will remember that if I am alive when things start falling apart. The neighbors lived off the land just fifty yrs ago. They are true Americans and we love each other because of similar values. We help each other now, and have formed a strong bond. That’s good because I am alone.