Yeah, preparation...but have you really thought about....?

Assuming that you have at least some type of loose plan for the inevitable "oh shit, it's really happening" scenario.....

Do you have plans for getting home from work? Go bag in the back of your car? What are family and loved ones to expect from you, and you from them? Plan A, or plan B....I'm curious.

I have a "get home" bag....not necessarily a "bug out" bag, but a bag that will help me get home. Bug out bag is much different in my opinion. What is your cut off time for someone that doesn't make it back to an agreed point....what if you can't, and wont see your family again? Or abandon that hope, and focus on just surviving.

Considering that even the worst situation, in the first few days I figure, most folks are not in Kill and Take mode, they're probably going to try and get home and regroup with family and friends and then set up a survival strategy. People with NO preparation in place will be running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and trying to figure out when the government is going to save them, we know that. Those folks will lose hard and fast.....raiding the stores and each other for whatever they can get.

On the other hand, there are lots of folks like us. We're ready .....at least, I hope you are to some extent. Another question is....after the idiots run their deal.....there's gonna be a lot of us types around. Do you have enough to wait out even those who were decently prepared?...or does that turn into the prepared fighting the prepared?

Stuff I think about.

I have a well thought-out and prepared plan to hunker down, once home. My "get home" plan still needs some nuance and refining.

I'd like to think that most of those who have prepared are more likely to hunker down and let the hoards diminish themselves, killing each other for a can of beans at the grocery store, or for some new sneaks at Walmart. After the "idiots run their deal", as you aptly put it, the remaining, and unfortunately the strongest groups of said idiots, will likely band together into the stereotypical bands of roving bad guys. I know enough like-minded neighbors, (and maybe even one or two of you guys), who I expect would be reliable compatriots to join together as necessary, and who I suspect are smart enough (and honorable enough) to understand that we're better off working together than against each other. I expect that same group of folks have enough training and skills to be a formidable force against a much larger group of morons. I hope that before things get bad enough for good guys to turn on other good guys, that enough bad guys have been dispatched to impart enough stability that we come together and get things going in the right direction. (I am the king of run-on sentences. Sorry, I'm not an orator nor a linguist, I hope you get my meaning).

I'll probably just call an Uber.

Interesting points you bring up. I would hope that those of us that were/are more prepared, would begin to work together. But who and when could you start to trust, especially early on. Yes, your group of neighbors like you mentioned, but are you going to trust me and a couple of mine? I've thought more than once about dispatching "good people" in the name of my own survival. Kind of step into a moral arena here, and decide if you exhibit some compassion or flat out clean house.

These thoughts struck me while sitting at the fire pit, talking about when you would have to "let someone go" because they didn't make it to a rally point within a given amount of time. I think most of us could get home in the first 24 hours, I would hope. One couldn't and shouldn't go out looking for that loved one, even if you really wanted to. Seems you really would have to just get home and wait out the first few waves of idiocy...and then wait some more. Make the house look dead and abandoned and lay low. I dunno....but it's better to think of stuff like this now instead of after the fact.

Kim Jong LaDouche might make a mess of stuff next year....or next week, who can tell.

Vehicles parked at work are subject to inspection at any time :(

So I park in the overflow lot next door :)

Being retired I'm already home [Sarcasm2][Beer]

You ever been sitting in traffic, or in a line at grocery store.......and just secretly wish the shit would just hit the fan for the good of humanity?

I have, but....shhhhh.

I expected some joviality when I posted this thought, and that's cool....I do it all the time. But when you seriously take some time and think about never seeing your spouse or children again and all of your focus goes to survival and self preservation, are you ready for that?

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But when you seriously take some time and think about never seeing your spouse or children again and all of your focus goes to survival and self preservation, are you ready for that?

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Happens to people every day. It's called divorce.

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You ever been sitting in traffic, or in a line at grocery store.......and just secretly wish the shit would just hit the fan for the good of humanity?

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Just curious...how do you think that would be good for humanity?

It's easy to fantasize about a good outcome, but realistic outcomes are probably going to be completely different than what you or I might hope would happen.

In my fantasy, leftist thought would be wiped from the face of the earth and everyone who survived would see the world like I do. Highly unlikely that would happen. In a true, game-changing, all-out survival scenario I figure I'll last about as long as the average person. Maybe a little longer just based on where I live. But not long enough to see it through.

I definitely don't see any good coming from something like that. At all.