Hey Guys,
Part of the 'Stampede" I guess! I found the link on the Colt Forum and thought I would "jump in with both feet". Seems like a thought provoking forum with a lot of good folks and information.
I haven't read the archives, so if this has already been brought up I suppose Moderators could put it in the right forum.
As in the title, when SHTF, have you ever really thought how it will start?
Not to be morbid, but I was reading an article this week in one of my journals that an MD had written concerning death. I can't quote exactly, but was to the effect of "I have seen death come as quickly as a loose doorknob coming off in your hand, and as slow as rust forming on a piece of iron.
Doorknob in hand,>perhaps nuclear attack with results much like that of the storm (Sandy) last week.
Rust senario, >maybe wake up to a situation like those in the wake of the storm last week up the Atlantic coast, albiet without the distruction.
Electricity out, then water, cell phones not connecting etc. Not too much out of the ordinary to announce it's come until the second (or third) day perhaps. With no major event, and no communications we could (perhaps in a rural setting) be a day or two into the situation and not even know it, where in a city it might be more obvious.
I live in a small town in Alabama, and fortunate to have some property, some of it wooded, which is good I suppose if really needed to bug out to a campsite to get away from the crazies that are bound to develop in the populus. I've wanted for a long time to step back 100 or more years to a simpler lifestyle, but I'm not fooling myself. I don't think were ever totally prepared for the unknown.
It's not uncommon here to have the lights go out, morning or afternoon and at times continue through the night, due to trees falling on the powerlines etc. Last week the cellphone did 'not connect', an inconvience but a distant neighbor had a "push to talk' phone, and the cell did work later that night.
I think by the third day I would put my plan into action, probably because the local population would by then be giving out of food and water supplies. Sort of obvious something is wrong by then I suppose.
So what are some of your thoughts?
Part of the 'Stampede" I guess! I found the link on the Colt Forum and thought I would "jump in with both feet". Seems like a thought provoking forum with a lot of good folks and information.
I haven't read the archives, so if this has already been brought up I suppose Moderators could put it in the right forum.
As in the title, when SHTF, have you ever really thought how it will start?
Not to be morbid, but I was reading an article this week in one of my journals that an MD had written concerning death. I can't quote exactly, but was to the effect of "I have seen death come as quickly as a loose doorknob coming off in your hand, and as slow as rust forming on a piece of iron.
Doorknob in hand,>perhaps nuclear attack with results much like that of the storm (Sandy) last week.
Rust senario, >maybe wake up to a situation like those in the wake of the storm last week up the Atlantic coast, albiet without the distruction.
Electricity out, then water, cell phones not connecting etc. Not too much out of the ordinary to announce it's come until the second (or third) day perhaps. With no major event, and no communications we could (perhaps in a rural setting) be a day or two into the situation and not even know it, where in a city it might be more obvious.
I live in a small town in Alabama, and fortunate to have some property, some of it wooded, which is good I suppose if really needed to bug out to a campsite to get away from the crazies that are bound to develop in the populus. I've wanted for a long time to step back 100 or more years to a simpler lifestyle, but I'm not fooling myself. I don't think were ever totally prepared for the unknown.
It's not uncommon here to have the lights go out, morning or afternoon and at times continue through the night, due to trees falling on the powerlines etc. Last week the cellphone did 'not connect', an inconvience but a distant neighbor had a "push to talk' phone, and the cell did work later that night.
I think by the third day I would put my plan into action, probably because the local population would by then be giving out of food and water supplies. Sort of obvious something is wrong by then I suppose.
So what are some of your thoughts?