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The authorities will have their hands full and they won’t have the man power to do a massive house to house search and even if they did it would be in all likelihood fruitless as only 98 houses out of 100 would be likely to have any real food storage.

Kartographer, I beg to differ. We only need to look back as far as Hurricaine Katrina and the house-to-house searches that were done. The "authorities" conducted those searches looking for bodies/people in need/guns, but it could easily have been for supplies also.

We mustn't become fixated on a nationwide catastrophe. It will most likely be a regional one where National Guard or other assets can be mobilized in a few days time. Nelson- You might also want to prep for the eventuality you mentioned. You don't necessarily need a car to bug-out. Think bicycle, or backpack. ;)

Well...here is the issue: We are a family of 5. 3 kids...one of which is small. Our bug out location is about 30 miles away. Any other scenario we are OK....we have a heads up and can move our stuff. An EMP? If we do bug out...we lose the advantage of having stored up all our supplies.

For the record...I am speaking here of an EMP. And it won't be a regional issue if its an EMP...it will be nation-wide. Imagine 3 cargo ships: One off the east coast, one in the Gulf and one off the Pacific coast. That would take out the country. Any enemy would be idiotic to launch just one.

And I doubt the National Guard will be coming. They have no plans for this at the State level...there would be communications...it would be chaos. Those guardsmen have families too...and they are going to protect them first.