Out in the sticks in places like this there are LOADS of tweakers and scammy scum, plus all of those usually found in urban/town areas are going to be filtering out there to get their loot while chaos reigns supreme.
Out here in CA near one of my jobs I recently went to a [now shuttered] aggregate base (crushed and graded recycled base rock for roads and building pads) plant where ~7 tweaker scum had been stripping the plant of copper wire. They were caught multiple times and released, caught once even in the midst of buring the insulation off the wire in a campfire.
The scum was living along the Russian river. The plant is now permanently shuttered (~20-30 well-paying jobs gone) because it would have taken 5+ million dollars to rewire/rebuild it. The authorities took the scum and placed them in low income/subsidized apartments...
A poignant account.
Thanks.
*SPIT!*