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Some of these numbers are worse than I thought, but this one says it all and makes for a major disaster and huge loss of life :

#15- 53 percent of all Americans do not have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes.

That is 53 out of 100 people do not have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes.

That is where lawlessness will come from first – those 53 people out of 100 with no water or food – they can’t go past one or two days if they even have that as they have less than a 3 day supply.

I didn’t think the number would be as high as that – I was counting on people having from three to five days but if these numbers in this article are true, riots will start in no more than 2 days. I don’t know anything we can do about that except encourage people to store water and food and other necessities so they will live.

We will not have three days of Walmart stockpiles to feed the hordes and keep them sated.

We will not have a week of normality before the Gibsmedats come boiling out of the urban kraals.

We will have only HOURS.

1965 - Los Angeles - the arrest of a young black man in Watts incites a crowd, which spawns a riot, within one hour of the arrest;
1968 - across America - the death of Martin Luther King touches off rioting in several cities within hours of the media broadcast;
1977 - New York - the grid goes offline at 9:30PM, the looting starts around 11PM;
1992 - Miami - Hurricane Andrew's winds haven't even died down before the malls are ransacked;
1992 - Los Angeles - the verdict is announced for the Rodney King Trial, and almost immediately, the city burns;
2005 - New Orleans - the looting started even before the storm made landfall;
2011 - London - a protest over a slain gangbanger turns violent and within four hours, Greater London descends into mayhem;
2012 - Long Island, NY - in the wake of Frankenstorm, enterprising looters dressed as powerline repairmen sneak past the martial law cordon and pillage, with 24 hours of the storm;

Hours, folks - not days, hours.

Some of these numbers are worse than I thought, but this one says it all and makes for a major disaster and huge loss of life:

#15- 53 percent of all Americans do not have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes.

That is 53 out of 100 people do not have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes.

Marcella - you have pointed out the one fact that is mind boggling to me, and a good indicator of the potential danger those mindless people represent - not only to themselves, but to those of us who do have the forethought to have some food and water on hand.

Statistics like that trigger the same two reactions for me every time I see them:

First - I see pictures of Katrina flash through again.
The large numbers people who were too stupid to even hang onto or scrounge an empty milk jug or soda bottle to fill with tap water before the storm hit was absolutely astounding.

Empty plastic bottles and potable tap water are available for free everywhere but there were huge mobs without a water bottle among them.
And it's not as if Katrina dropped on them by surprise like a tornado.
They had days of warnings and a lot of time to make some basic no-cost preparations.

Secondly - I think of how many people just like that live within a days walk of where I live.

In all seriousness - that motivates me to stay on top of my preps - Fill up some more water jugs, buy a few more cans of beans on sale and check the existing water and food stores.