Doomsday preppers

[Rock185]

Mel Tappan wrote extensively on this subect 30+ years ago. He would agree with jack oconner and others on this. If you're serious about this stuff, not the Zombie part, you're already where you need to be before it gets ugly. I believe if he were still alive, he would have used his term, the "backpacker mentality," to describe bugging out. He explains, in detail, why this is unlikely to succeed. I don't think anything like TEOTWAWKI is likely within my lifetime. In any case, I'm staying in the community where I've lived for several years, where people know me, I know them, and we have already developed relationships. Being the bugging out outsider/stranger does not seem likely to be rewarding to me...ymmv

 

[Jay_Crown]

I love the fact that EVERYBODY believes that they will "kill anybody who attacks them"

Ok buddy, when you fend off a gang of 17 with weapons with you and your wifes' .22 I'll be laughing

 

[redlevel]

If there is ever a mass panic involving people fleeing huge population areas in the US it will be caused by one of two things:

1. Disastrous crop failures resulting in extremely short food supplies and extremely high prices. Imagine the ATL five days into situation where no food was being trucked in. Then, 10 days.

2. A devastating epidemic of some sort. A very deadly flu bug could do it. Can you imagine what would happen in NYC, LA, or any other population center if there were reports of thousands of people per day dying from some illness?

Of course, a devastating natural disaster on a regional basis could do the same thing. Imagine Katrina, Andrew, Hugo, Sandy, and Camille all in one hurricane season. Or a series of earthquakes in the west and/or midwest. Even an abnormal solar storm season could cause big problems.

I still believe disease or famine will be the trigger.
Me and Thomas Malthus.

 

[Comrad]

Anyone in the northeast can tell you when a big snow storm is predicted the stores are instantly out of milk, bread and water. It wouldn't take much to really interrupt the food supply in the US. I like to keep plenty of canned goods and some water on hand, we use it anyway and if the S does HTF I'm good for a week or 10 days until things settle down. A little 2K generator and two 5 gallon cans of gas held us over during Sandy, no power for 10 days. I guess I'm bugging in. Keep a loaded rifle near the back door.

 

[gdnagle]

Anyone in the northeast can tell you when a big snow storm is predicted the stores are instantly out of milk, bread and water. Keep a loaded rifle near the back door.

Thought that was milk, bread, TP.

 

[Mule Packer]

I love the fact that EVERYBODY believes that they will "kill anybody who attacks them"

Ok buddy, when you fend off a gang of 17 with weapons with you and your wifes' .22 I'll be laughing

I didn't get the impression people were saying that.

I figure if we ever get to the scenario where the proverbial "ship hits the sand," and some guy and his family are seriously hungry...and if he's willing to put forth the time, effort, and the gas to drive clear out to my place, by golly, I'll load him up with corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, onions, whatever he needs. I've done it before.

But...on the other hand, if I catch some bozo raiding my garden and hen house in the middle of the night...well...then we just might have to have a little "prayer meeting," so to speak, and help the "sinner turn from his evil ways," if you catch my drift.