Symptom 2: Group behavior changes, survival brings people closer and makes others less human
Symptom 3: Dead streets
Symptom 4: New leaders emerge
Symptom 5: Nobody to trust anymore
There is a section in my Preparedness Manual where Selco discusses his SHTF Experiences in Bosina. Chilling and full of firsthand experiences and information. I urge all preppers to read Selco's writings.
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6. Seeing the light from your nearest burning city reflected on the clouds.
I have some people that aren’t in my family that I trust with my life, and they trust me with theirs.
We’re already there according to that criteria.
I stand ready. I’m to the point...lets get it on so we can rebuild a better society. I guess my wife is right, I am inpatient.
It seems to me that all of those symptoms are already manifesting themselves. Good thing my food preps are squared away. Weapons, still working on that one...
8. It suddenly dawns on you why all your neighbors are getting up earlier now...they’re trying to beat each other to the nights road kill.
I somewhat disagree with the article, at least as far as here in the US.
It describes a kind of “slow unwinding” or breakdown, almost from a psychological or social perspective, a doom and gloom mentality.
Here in America, I don’t see it. Maybe two weeks of it or so, but not a prolonged period.
If the ATM’s stop working, we’re in deep.
If the cell phones stop, possibly the same.
If you see lines at the gas station, wait it out in line and buy as much as you can.
If a “bank holiday” is declared...
If elections are suspended...
If certain prescription drugs become very rare (antibiotics, etc)...
Any talk of curfews.
Sudden announcements about things out of the ordinary, like school closures, power outages announced in advance, that kind of thing...
A decline in the trucker index, the movements of goods across the main corridors
Oil changing +/- 20 percent or so in one session
There are probably a few I missed.
Some or possibly most of these would precede chaos in US.
Without these types of events, most will just stay fat, dumb, and happy.
I watch financial news, especially anything that affects banks, but I stay aware of general conditions that could affect this area. Next January there are multiple financial deadlines to meet by govn. and banks, so that’s a time for extra watch.
I started to write how small I can make myself to be unnoticed, but decided not to write that. I’ll just say I will be fine and am not concerned about bad guys.
Right now, I'd say... in 35 years of marriage, I've never seen grocery stores like they are now: out of stuff, stuff spread out to look like more, prices insane, and people's baskets nowhere near full. Worksmanship on nearly everything is terrible. I don't care where I go, somebody is talking about how "crazy" things are... one way or another.
I'd say that's at least symptom #1.
Announced or unannounced rolling blackouts or sporadic electricity.
People ought to be thinking of water and how they’ll deal with excrement.