(05-20-2016 03:44 PM)Sherman Wrote: This happened to me years ago when a category 5 hurricane was approaching Houston. As soon as it was announced on television there were a million cars already on the road, so we decided to stay. We went to Walmart for supplies and all the shelves were cleaned out. You need to have supplies stored in advance, because once the shit hits the fan it's too late.
Im mexican, my dad and I took a road trip through Houston (his brother in law lives there) on our way to Louisiana on work related business a few of months right after Katrina.
Man, the amount of destruction we say was unbelievable. Houses and bridges and roads washed away. Acres of stacked cars waiting for compaction. Folks we saw on country roads looking at us like they where about to shoot. A band of mexicans wanted to hitchhike but their hands where fiddling so I drove off. What would I had done had I been a gun toting, law upholding american? These where 8 dirty dudes in the middle of fucking nowhere standing in the middle of the road.
It was saddening to me finding out that years afterwards that there where still people living in the Astrodome. To think that we where seeing the most powerful nation in the world being dragged through the mud makes one onder what would happen, how things would have went down in a poorer country, one less educated, least equipped to overthrow their own leaders if needed.
The possibility of shit going down world wide is not too farfetched. Perhaps very unlikely, but not impossible. If entities like the Soviet Union went down, then the American Hegemony can go down too. And if that happens there will be no one left to break their fall. The whole world would collapse. The very least we can do to protect ourselves if it comes to that is to be prepared. To have a small supply of food stored away. To keep a gun if legal/possible, or some weapon if thats whats available (I keep an axe hung behind my door.) To maintain a network of friends and allies we can trust not to fuck us over in a survival scenario. To own, and use, a well maintened set of tools, To learn (even if its just watching a few youtube tutorials) skills that would be nice to have in such state of affairs: fishing, hunting, food canning, woodworking, vehicle repair, beer making, whatever will make you a good friend to have when we go back to Bartertown.
Desk jobs are nice now but in such scenario where we get one hour of electricity a day as in Venezuela, the guy who knows how to dress a wound or raise pigeons will be more sought after than the guy who knows how to unlock your Iphone. There are things we learn that we may never use in our lifetimes, and there are things we learn hoping never to use them.