I'm confused.
Maybe it is because I live off the grid of mainstream society and my goals in life are more towards self support then trying to provide for a group of people.
My great grand parents were farmers, and my grand parents were part time farmers.
My parents only grew what we ate and everyone in my family hunted.
Then the Pinko white trash feminists decided hunting for food was bad and that you could go to work and make more money and buy food cheaper than missing one week of work a year and hunting deer with a rifle.
My Maternal grandparents never had an automobile, they walked everywhere they went, or they paid someone to drive them. They always paid in cash and they never owed anyone anything.
My Paternal grandparents owned automobiles, did very little walking, but still had a very strong work ethic.
My dad only walked when he went hunting and he never missed work, even when he was sick!
My mom kept house, never owned anything of her own, not even a radio.
My mom was known to work from the time when she woke in the morning until she went to bed at night, and never complained.
As kids, we had very little. The younger kids had toys and video games and luxuries, while the older children had to work from an early age, doing chores around the house and working for neighbors to make money for school clothes etc.
I don't understand people that have had everything handed to them, nor do I accept them into my small circle of friends.
Most people do not have a plan - WSHTF.
I think that many of them just figures if it gets that bad, either the government will help them out, or that they will just head north to the mountains and live off the fat of the land.
The mountains of Pennsylvania were devoid of trees by the 1920's, most all of it was timbered off to make the fat cats rich. The animals in the woods were killed for food and furs and the streams were ruined by pollution.
The depression didn't do much to the people living in my part of the world, because they never had much to begin with!
As hard as you try, I don't know of anyone that can store one years worth of food.
No matter how much you store, you will always have a problem with refrigeration and freezing.
Animals and rodents getting into it, and things happening that you can't control.
If there is a global winter, you aren't going to grow anything in a garden for many years.
By that time, the seeds may or may not still be any good!
Depending upon if there is nuclear fall out, the fish in the streams may not be any good to eat, and the plant life may be contaminated.
You will have hoards of people that will roam, looking to steal what ever it is that you have to eat!
Having just one or two people that understands communications is a short term fix, but what if something happens to those people, who are you going to rely on?
Licensing people that doesn't want to learn anything isn't going to solve your problems.
Owning a radio that you don't know how to operate isn't going to solve your communications problems.
Not having power is probably going to be a big issue.
Even dry cell batteries will only have an infinite number of charge cycles before they quit working.
The price of those batteries has escalated into the hundreds of dollars.
Even if you had a producing Natural Gas Well, eventually you will run out of motor oil for the generator.
I don't know how many of you have lived in the woods before, but street clothes that lasts years in the 'burbs, will quickly turn to shreds in the woods.
Shoes will fall apart in a matter of weeks or months.
A lot of people misses the big picture when they talk about bugging out!
How many of you keep a full tank of fresh gasoline in your bug out vehicle and keep 50 gallons of gasoline, that you rotate on a frequent basis for your bug out needs?
How much motor oil do you have?
How big is your generator?
How many hours do you plan to run the generator a week?
How do you plan to resupply your stores once you get to where you are going?
There are a lot of "If's" in most peoples plans!
The hardest part is trying to get people to stop fishing off the breast of the dam, when you can see that the dam is failing, because the fishing is so good!
If people are making money and you know the world is going to come to an end, how do you get them to quit their jobs and leave?
< Most people will wait until it is too late, and then find out that the military and the police will have the main roads blocked, and the side roads will be full of automobiles that were stranded or disabled.> You may not be able to get to where it is that you thought that you were going to go!
Or you might get there and find out that someone else has already beaten you to it!
There might be some grubby people sitting there, eating your food and reloading their rifles with your ammo and shooting you with your own bullets!!!!!!
