“You have food on hand forever, can grow everything you need, can manually pump your own drinking water, and can hold off millions of starving and hostile city dwellers, forever?”
I can certainly grow more than I need, I can ride my bike anywhere I would drive to, including up the river into the mountains where the water is clean. And there are no millions of city dwellers within 800 miles. The biggest issue truthfully would be medication for my wife and looking after my kids and grand kids. And there all within biking distance. The family would probably hole up at my daughter’s house. She has acreage and a large in ground pool that could provide drinking water till utilities were restored if they went out.
T1D’s are dead within 2m. Ditto anyone needing chemotherapy or antibiotics for anything. Burn victims either. And there will be a lot of those as people try to boil water, cook food over fires and just keep warm.
You stand a better chance than most. But your standard of living will revert to the early 1800’s. And if any of your equipment breaks you won’t be getting a replacement any time soon.
An inch of rain on my barn roof drops about 800 gallons into a stock tank.
Let’s do the math...
If a bottle of DANSAI costs...