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Originally Posted by H2O2
The desperation and lawlessness are what I think folks should be preparing themselves for at this point. This is what happens time and again when folks become distressed and desperate; social norms break down and chaos reigns.
I need to locate a manual pump for my well and stockpile staples. Back in '97 we lost power for 8 days during the icestorm, which was a debilitating enough lesson to learn, and I shudder to think what that would be like if the scale were exponentially more devastating. Our culture has become accustomed to the free-flow of people, goods and information, so if that flow is restricted or halted, I think we'd break down rather quickly into a state of civil strife.
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In the absence of law enforcement not much can be done. Maybe kevlar? The potentially good news around here is that most of the time it’s so cold and wet that many will huddle in any available shelter rather than being hot an angry.
We have a fair amount of camping/food and shelter supplies for a modest disaster. We have several water buckets, siphons, generators et cetera. But most of our plans revolve around a house being intact enough to recover stuff. I've thought about buying a couple of smallish motor bikes as they are good when roads are not, but for the time we have our bicycles