Thanks for the ideas. I especially like the safe room and storage room ideas. I’m not bugging out...too old to start over, been here too long, family here. I suppose some kind of neighborhood watch could lessen the need for some of the more extreme at home defensive measures?
No. You have to assume worst case if you are serious.
More people together of like mind will help, but injuries and death will reduce numbers. Neighborhood watches now can help to train you guys to work together. Learn to use radios to communicate. Analyze strong and weak points of the neighborhood. Have fallback plans in case people in bad areas need to get to anothers’ house. Generally don’t leave the strongest place.
If you’re not going to have a plan to leave, you have to plan for the extreme. It’s all you are going to have. ANd you will need a few others to help you because on-two people will not last against an armed group very long.
The idea you are talking about is going to work well for rural people who know each other and will by then be living in fortified homes and have already had relatives and others get there with goods and weapons and will be a little force of their own. Not nearly as well in the cities or suburbs. It’s more of an urban warfare issue. Too many ways to get to you in the city or suburbs. Not much distance and time before an attack.