Welcome to the Promised Land (a nice reality check for some folks)

[Jeff350]

I bet we've all heard at one time or another "Well when TSHTF I am coming to your house!"

I plan for short term interruptions in society for my wife and I, and no one else. There is no way I would be able to feed/water/shelter all my friends and family that refuse to have even basic necessities at hand.

That said, I doubt I could turn anyone I know away. For this reason I often find myself trying to explain the fragile nature of our society. For example, the strikes in Europe going on right now. If the truckers or refinery workers decided to strike today, how long would it be before the shelves at King Soopers are empty? Maybe a day or two if there is no panic.

I have often thought of creating some buckets with basic food and spices as well as a knife, water treatment, and cooking supplies to give to family members.

[funkfool]

I just read this guys novel: "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse"
I highly recommend it...

[ShooterJM]

Pretty sure my parents got me a copy of that last Christmas, not a bad read.

[GoldFinger]

I no longer try and convert anyone. I just do the best I can and help those that want to learn. The others like in the first sentence I tell them that it will be "sorry, but I can't help you"

My hats off to jerrymrc! He has held a couple weekend meetings to help learn and teach some of the talents that would be VERY helpful in a SHTF scenario (side note - I wanted to attend both of the lessons he held but failed to plan correctly to make it). And he has, IMO, a realistic perspective of how people are going to HAVE to treat others in a SHTF scenario. He's making time to share an ounce of prevention because there probably will be no cure, much less a pound of it.


The Patriot - Not a great literary work, but it's a nice way of detailing how you would IDEALLY want to be prepared and put it into a story form to show how some of the preparedness would be applied practically.

that's my 2 cents.