It just gets worse and worse, every news story I read just reinforces the hopeless situation. Surely if you'd want the best chance to live into old age, you'd have to plan for societies collapse at this point, unless you are already old. How do you even prepare for this kind of thing? I...
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To be fair if you live anywhere under the threat of natural disasters that can knock out the power it's a good idea to keep at least a 2 week supply of long shelf-life food per person. I live in FL, and during the hurricane season of 2004 my power was out a cumulative month.
I personally keep a month's worth of 25 year shelf-lies food, 125 gallons of rotating gasoline, 5000 gallons worth of water purification tablets, a rednecked 300 gallon rain cistern, and 1000 round lots of surplus 9mm, 5.56×45, and 7.62x51 hardball sitting in the shed. Notice how the guns were at the bottom of the list, though I often dip into the ammo stock for trips down to the fun range.
It's always a good thing to be properly prepared for actual threats, and realistic WROL situations. The cops aren't coming the day after a Cat 4-5 cuts off entire neighborhoods to downed trees and live powerlines.
Also, get a good chainsaw for said downed trees. I still remember hopping in my pickup truck to clear roads in my neighborhood after 2004's hurricane Charlie. 5 hours later people kept hopping into the back of my truck with their chainsaws after helping them that we'd roll up on a tree and 10 complete strangers with chainsaws all piled out.