One Second After

[snakedog]

We're spoiled in this country. My German cousins survived WWII and its aftermath without turning on each in chaos. They lost everything including children. My father's family mailed them care packages of flour, sugar, tobacco and sundry items for five years after the war ended.

EMP's? The human race has survived worse. Keep to the sunny side.

 

[Onomea]

Survivors, by James Wesley Rawles is a good read. It's about the aftermath of a total economic meltdown. The principal character needs to get back to the American southwest, to family and his girl, from Iraq where he has been fighting in the war. He is a resourceful fellow. I think the writer may be a survivalist because the means by which the main characters go about surviving show that the writer has put a lot of thought into what to do if the SHTF.

 

[Bert Man]

What especially got my attention in One Second After was how they handled the food and essential medications situation. After a while when food and medicine got in short supply the authorities determined that all stored food, livestock, and crops were community property and if you didn't declare and turn over your preps the powers would eventually sieze them and distribute them and remaining medications according to who THEY deemed to be most entitled to them. Kind of makes you wonder if the supplies that many of us put away for potential SHTF will benefit us as much as we would like to think. Regarding the medications availability, it struck me that many of us are at an age where certain drugs (BP, diabetic, cardiac, etc.) are essential for the survival of those with cronic medical conditions so after a sufficient period without them we would be SOL. Then the food situation would be moot.

I suspect that in a societal breakdown of that magnitude it would all revert back to the law of the jungle; only the stong survive. I did like the way the community handled the "outsider" problem though.

Whoops! Hope I didn't give too much information away here.