However, there are certain things city dwellers can do in preparation for a sudden disaster.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There is one key thing.
1) Get to water and a boat while heavily armed.And head for the nearest relatively unpopulated area, bring all of the silver and gold you have saved.
What use will your gold and silver be?
I have often wondered about people who believe that in a societal breakdown gold or silver will get you out of trouble rather than effectively painting a great big target on your forehead.
Let’s say after the disaster you go to the nearest functioning market to buy whatever staple foods the farmers are prepared to sell. So you pull out a gold sovereign and buy a few bags of rice. You go home and eat the rice, next week you go back to the market with another sovereign, first off you will be told the rice costs two sovereigns now. Then before you have even reached home the story will be all around the market that you have a stash of gold in your house.
That isn’t going to end well.
As a charter member of the Free Republic Boating Club, I would warn people against this strategy. You would be surprised how often boats overturn when loaded with guns and ammo.