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Great thread!

I think most cities could turn into a catastrophe if the water and electricity were cut off for a few days. The key would be to get out fast, or better yet, don't live there in the first place.

Here's one idea: a small trailer you keep in your garage or elsewhere, with a dozen or so five gallon jerry cans full of gasoline on it. The idea is to have your own "ultra range extender" ready to go.

On your way out of the city, all of the nearby gas stations will be totally overwhelmed. At best, you will wait for hours or days in a line for gas. At worst, you will be robbed as soon as you pull off of the freeway to search for gas. You may be killed, or be left on foot in a dangerous area controlled by thugs.

With a small trailer loaded with about 60 gallons of gas would allow you to hit the freeway and get way beyond the zone of lawlessness before you have to stop. All of the area withing one tank of gas range (200-400 miles) will be overwhelmed by desperate refugees. The preloaded trailer gets you way beyond this area, and into unaffected areas where prices are normal and motel room and so on are available at non-crisis prices.

Think of how cheap such a trailer would be to buy and stock now. Consider it life insurance.

Of course, it will have to be camouflaged as refugee junk nobody wants, to avoid it being targeted. But the point is, the freeways, if you get out early (because you are prepared and ready to roll) will be viable. The areas off of the freeways around gas stations and stores will be refugee crisis zones which you must avoid.