Yep. Our police, fire, stores, electrical, etc. are capable of handling the typical day to day problems, and even some very large events (like a block-large fire or mass shooting).
When entire towns get wiped out (this fire, hurricanes, earthquakes) one needs to be prepared to last on their own for weeks.
Of course when all of your supplies are burned up....
Yep. That's a whole 'nother ball game there. Fire takes out your reloading supplies and ammunition, too. Destroys your firearms, even.
Prayers for those people.
When “superstorm” Sandy hit a few years back. I lived in NJ. I had everything you could need for TEOTWAWKI.
Naturally, my block never lost power. That was a miracle.
However, all of our friends and family were without electricity so our home became a small refugee camp. All day, people were coming in and out to grab hot showers, Mrs DoodleBob was cooking hot meals, and just sitting to warm up. Eventually everyone would head back to their powerless homes though everyone had a generator for necessities (you know, powering iPhones, computers, etc…).
Things were ok. Nobody died.
After about three days, I noticed the lines at the gas stations were getting longer and longer. It turns out most people had generators, but only two days worth of gas. Obviously, without gas there was no generated electricity, the fridge and food would go down, sump pumps wouldn’t work, and other Small but Nasty Things would arise.
There were reports of fights breaking out as people started barging into queues, stories about angry crowds of people who waited hours only for the station to run out of gas, and the start of a general breakdown in civilization.
Then, I heard people were strategizing about driving 100 miles away (where the situation wasn’t dire) to load up on gas. But there were no gas cans available on the shelves. People were buying gas cans online at ridiculous prices. THE topic of conversation was, gasoline: did you get any, which stations still had some, do you have any extra cans, can we drive to this or that station together, etc.
You could run scenarios, about what would be the next step down…would people start targeting and robbing homes if they heard a working generator (generator noise=gas), would strangers come knocking in MY door for a hot shower, and so on.
By about day 4 or 5, power was restored and the good citizens of Soprano Nation went back to being whiny RINOs.
Had we gone another few days without power being restored, we’d have gone full Blade Runner.
“When entire towns get wiped out (this fire, hurricanes, earthquakes) one needs to be prepared to last on their own for weeks.”
I live in hurricane country. I’m totally prepared to survive a few weeks without outside food or water, but if my house, truck, and everything around me is wiped out by a tornado I’m screwed. Even if I had stuff stored somewhere else, I wouldn’t be able to get there due to no transportation and I guarantee that fallen trees would block the roads. How do you prepare for that?
“When entire towns get wiped out (this fire, hurricanes, earthquakes) one needs to be prepared to last on their own for weeks.
Of course when all of your supplies are burned up....”
Yes, there’s the rub. I thought I was prepared when anarchists burned my community. Lol. I lost $50,000 of “preparedness”.
I didn’t have time to get my GO BAG! I was hungry and terrified more often than not before I got a safe place to sleep and “normal” never returned.
You can’t prepare for this kind of devistation. And they know it!!!!
It is not enough to have your own preparations.
It is critical that they be kept secret and you live a low profile lifestyle.