Ok, let me throw some water on your hysteria.
Let’s take a small town in Missouri. It’s in the bootheel and where my Grandparents lived and died. I still have 4 cousins in that town of less than 2000.
There are dozens of old tractors just sitting in barns around that area. There are many farm mechanics who can get them up and going. Three gas stations in town who can’t sell gas in the first couple of days, would mean close to a thousand gallons of gas in underground tanks, not counting all the gas stored up on family farms.
So, after a few days the town leaders tell people: We will set up hand pumps for gas stations, only tractors can be fueled up for farming, gas on farms will be communal for the same purpose and we will set up a field work schedule so we can grow all of our food.
Yep! Communism works in a short term, emergancy situation.
“But what about the locusts?”, you might ask. By the time the locusts get out to that town (60 miles from Poplar Bluff, the closest “city” nearby), the town leaders would have figured out something is seriously wrong and armed patrols would be meeting stragglers and wanderers. They can work the fields and live with the rest of the town, or they can go on their way.
The gasoline and old tractors gives them at least two planting and harvesting (by hand) seasons to get established and pretty soon that becomes the new “normal”. As the gasoline starts to run low, horses and even cows would start to pull makeshift plows made with that old anvil in someones barn (my Grandfather had one) and the metalshop teacher at the highschool.
Yes, medical emergancies will take some people, but this small town in rural Missouri would probably grow from 2000 people to 5000 people in a single year.
And this would be duplicated all around the nation.
How will they deal with the silent killers typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, yellow fever and all the other diseases that literally wiped out cities in Europe that will inevitably sweep across this country without any medical intervention?
How will a city of 2000 grow to 5000 without any immediate means to sustain them? Assuming the "event" occurs in November, after all crops have been harvested and shipped out as most farmers do, there will be no sustaining crops until the following harvest season which won't be until at least the following September...........and that's predicated on perfect climate conditions that allow them to grow their specific crops...........
Rural Missouri leads the nation in Meth Labs, once society breaks down, how will your community of 2000 deal with the influx of meth or the lack of by the addicts living there?
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