If it gets bad enough people will kill you for what’s in your garden.
If you have lights on at night ..they will know you have solar panels.
And they will assume you have more than they do.
Right !! you don't advertize ! - you use furring strips around the outside of your "black out drapes" (easily reinstalled and removed at minimal expense).
You become "The Grey man", and wear blending-in clothing just like your neighbors. If they wear dungarees, you also wear them too; save the Calvin Clines for elsewhere.
Transport of quantities of long-term food stores occurs in your garage, or, late at night if you don't have a garage.
If it gets bad enough people will kill you for what’s in your garden.”
Yep. They’ll shoot you the minute you walk out your door. And it’s not just strangers. Your neighbor buddy won’t be so buddy anymore when his family is literally starving to death in front of him and he thinks you still have food. I believe a lot of people have a somewhat romantic version of how this could play out. It won’t be pretty.