[super7man]

I agree with you. The author is projecting total colapse of society on a national level and that is unlikely.

I am prepared for the scenario that you have proposed, local natural disaster. Katrina is a good example, LA riots, another. These are temporary situations that are probably more dangerous than total colapse.

[super7man]

collapse=colapse

[Joe 6-pack]

What has thus far prevented the total SHTF scenario is that external aid has been able to be martialed in relatively short order, whether it was Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami, the Haitian earthquake, etc., but until such aid was rendered, chaos ruled.

In the event of a global banking collapse, there will be no help coming from outside; it will be every man for himself. My other concern would be an EMP attack on the US...a few years ago, I would have considered such a thing extremely unlikely, but we now have an administration doing everything in its power to increase our vulnerability...