[Zevonismymuse]

Fortunately, me and my immediate family have a few places we can go if it comes to that.

Those of us who believe in self reliance will have an opportunity to demonstrate why we have chosen this as our personal philosophy. I think most conservatives will do fine.

[durasell]

There’s self-reliance and then there’s self-reliance. I suspect the kind of self-reliance you mention can be equated with subsistence living using antique skill sets.

[JamesP81]

Those of us who believe in self reliance will have an opportunity to demonstrate why we have chosen this as our personal philosophy. I think most conservatives will do fine.

I agree. Nevertheless, I think I'm going to start buying MREs to keep in case of emergency. Of course, that's probably a good idea for me anyway seeing how I live uncomfortably close to a fault-line.