To state the obvious, I know that we all live in different areas, the country, urban (me), and the city. To begin with I believe that we have to look at our immediate surroundings. Our next door nieghbors, what facilities are in our nieghborhood and what affect will those facilities have. For example; I have a hospital 1/2 mile away. Great! Right? Yes, for trips to the emergency room as I recently found out with a sudden onset of appendicitus. I was able to get to the ER in two minutes and get into the suffering and endless waiting much quicker than someone living in the country. However, in the event of biological terror attack, my area will me swamped with folks carrying whatever contagious discease our friends have decided to give us. Moving on from the hospital, I have two large apartment complexes a block away. They are full of some folks that like to use and deal illegal drugs. There are also some good folks there, but what do the others have in store for me when TSHTF? I have two schools, one outside my back door and the other a block away. What are schools used for when defication hits the rotary oscillator? You got it, Shelters! Remember the shelters during Katrina and the things that went on there? Yep, there will be some stressed out unhappy, unprepared people (sheeple) that will wonder where their government is and will be ready to take things into their own hands. What about the folks right next door on both sides of the house. What do you know about them and how will they react with you and to you when things start to circle the drain? Especially if they know or suspect that you have a store of food.
These are just a few of my considerations. You say, no problem, I live in the boonies, the mountains, or whatever. That is great and I envy you. However, when a nuke goes off in the big city and people begin to flea, where are they going? To your back yard. They will be bringing their families, hunger, their guns and their frustration.
What about the government and their responce to whatever it is that is going to go wrong? With Homeland Security and the Patriot Act just about everyone that is not in full agreement with the government borders on being a terrorist and you can bet that is going to be magnified about 10 times when something hits this country. During Katrina they did illegally start taking up guns and the next significant act of terrorism will make Katrina look like a disagreement at choir practice.
I haven't covered all the scenarios. So what does this mean? It means that if you are staying in place you need to decide now what you will tolerate, what you will give up, and what you can reasonalbly defend and how you will do so.
If you are bugging out, you need to know every possible route to your destination and don't forget railroads, gas line, sewer line, and power line right of ways. Most counties have a gis map online now that show all these right of ways and the maps are printable.
Again, these are just a few of my ideas and I would love to hear more of yours.
Thanks for reading,
Beebopcop
These are just a few of my considerations. You say, no problem, I live in the boonies, the mountains, or whatever. That is great and I envy you. However, when a nuke goes off in the big city and people begin to flea, where are they going? To your back yard. They will be bringing their families, hunger, their guns and their frustration.
What about the government and their responce to whatever it is that is going to go wrong? With Homeland Security and the Patriot Act just about everyone that is not in full agreement with the government borders on being a terrorist and you can bet that is going to be magnified about 10 times when something hits this country. During Katrina they did illegally start taking up guns and the next significant act of terrorism will make Katrina look like a disagreement at choir practice.
I haven't covered all the scenarios. So what does this mean? It means that if you are staying in place you need to decide now what you will tolerate, what you will give up, and what you can reasonalbly defend and how you will do so.
If you are bugging out, you need to know every possible route to your destination and don't forget railroads, gas line, sewer line, and power line right of ways. Most counties have a gis map online now that show all these right of ways and the maps are printable.
Again, these are just a few of my ideas and I would love to hear more of yours.
Thanks for reading,
Beebopcop
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