But, hey folks, the moral of the story is:DO NOT WAIT to get out.
If you're to stupid, to timid, to “in can’t be happening” to get out in time, DO NOT head for the highway - didn't you see the first episode of “Revolution”? LOL
If you haven't gotten out and settled somewhere long before TSHTF, at least have an escape route plotted and a destination in place. Hopefully, you‘ve not only squirreled away some supplies, but practiced some self-sufficient skills. (I'm teaching my granddaughters how to knit, how to make laundry soap, hand soap bars, butter - using just cream and a glass jar, etc. You need more than supplies, you need to know to replenish supplies.
And don't just pick out a place on the map to head to. You may think you can melt into the wilderness and no one will know you're there. Guess again. Every square inch of land is owned by someone. The more remote, the fewer locals, the more they all know if a strangers around and they might not cotton to strangers just showing up and expecting to be allowed to squat on their land and using their resources. -
Establish a relationship, get a piece of land, arrange to use a piece of land, (might even want to think of this 'piece' across the border.) well before you NEED it - because, in actuality, you NEED IT NOW.
Exactly, you have identified one message. I want my kindred and like-minded Free Republic friends to be able to make it through whatever comes.
The second message is to be aware that this exact scenario has a chance of actually happening in real life, and to be prepared for it.
A good point. Also, remember that the exits from the interstates will likely be blocked, not by the Feds, but by locals who don't want you coming off and buying up the available supplies of gas and food. Be sure to get a couple of jerry cans and keep them filled with gas. Rotate your gas supply. Every few times you need gas, use what's in your jerry cans, then refill them at the gas station. That way you'll always have fresh gas on hand.
And see my tag line. There's a lot of information in my book that you might find useful when the time comes.
VERY well said ‘7. “DO NOT WAIT” and “you NEED IT NOW” is 100% dead on the money. I’m retired and way ‘out and up’ but I do have some older and retired, (who could leave/live/move anywhere they might want to go), longtime friends still in the ‘big city’ whom do not see what is coming and I worry for them. What they do not understand is that when the first start of a real SHTF scenario manifests it is that one of the Fed’s/FEMA/National Guard/local militarized LEO’s, (pick one!), very first and SOP’s is to get the main roadways, entrance points to mountain pass routes, airports, train stations etc. out of the big cities blockaded. Sure some folk will ‘leak’ out and through after the block points go up, and they will be established and fully supported FAST, but for the most part the 98% left trapped will self ‘thin their heard’, just as planned by the Feds, within weeks as food and water run out and complete hell comes. Once that number is reduced by that attrition, to what the Fed’s gestapo who HAVE stocked up on food/water/clothing for the long haul, deem a ‘manageable’ total, ie: not enough of ‘em to put up a decent fight, they will move in and mop up.