Those that recommended 'One Second After'

[TennVol]

It was 2-3 years ago that we had one winter storm that kept the trucks from getting down here. After 3 days I ventured to our local King Soopers to see what it looked like. All the dairy was gone, all the bread was gone and the regular shelves were about half full. It was something to see that it only took a couple of days.

It was a similar story after Hurrican Hugo in 89. I was stationed at Charleston AFB, SC and the roads were blocked for days with trees, downed power lines, shrimp boats, etc..

It is a lot of fun camping out in your own home for 13 days with no electricity!

[ghettodub]

Just finished this. Good story. Didn't really scare me, but did give me some things to think about...and makes me want to be more prepared if SHTF someday.

[TriggerHappy]

Just picked it up in SFO yesterday. What an awesome read. I am not the "reading books" type. I like picutures.... I am about 80 pages in and cant set it down.

[solomon751]

Question for you guys... I just finished reading TSA and I'm in the camp of getting my crap together for this or any other SHTF type scenario. What I am debating is to bug out or to honker down. What are your thoughts about what you would do in this situation?

Pros of hunkering down:
Got 2 kids (7 and 2) and a wife - not gonna do a lot of rucking with kids.
Might be able to lay low enough to not raise attention if we stayed in the basement and defended what we have.
Can stock up and live off of 9 months of food for our family with some reasonable preparation.
Even w/o heat or electricity shelter from the elements and a fireplace is golden.
No humping lol

Cons of hunkering down:
House is a nightmare to defend - one Molotov cocktail and the place (including the brood and everything you worked toward/food) is up in smoke.
If the "Posse" type scenario happens you are screwed.
If you DID decide to take off chances are it would be too late and roads choked or shut down with others in the same thought.

I am interested to see what you all think about putting yourself in a SHTF scenario and your rational.

[ghettodub]

I think it all depends on your current house: i.e. your location, neighboorhood, surrounding areas, and what exactly the scenario is (if you're even able to tell).

I can tell you I sure as hell wouldn't want to hunker down in a house in the city, because of the people around, panic, lack of supplies, looting, etc, but if you live in one of those areas, would it be more dangerous to get out? You would either want to get a jump on everyone else leaving, or if you can make it a few days until the initial batshit crazy dies down, and then get it.

Just a few of my thoughts.

[solomon751]

Without getting to specific I live south of Hampden and a bit East of Sheridan in the 80236 area. Not a bad area by comparison to my travels around the metro area. Far from LODO but still far enough from the hills to make bugging out a whole lot of work with kids.

[StagLefty]

My answer is to stay where you are if possible. You have all your supplies already there and it's better than sitting in a traffic jam. If you bug out you'd better have a place to go otherwise the people where you go probably aren't going to be standing there with open arms.
This idea about heading for the hills to me isn't rational if you don't have set up there. JMHO

[ghettodub]

This idea about heading for the hills to me isn't rational if you don't have set up there. JMHO

Agreed. My folks live up in the hills, so I have a place to go, but I would go if I didn't have a place.

[ghettodub]

Without getting to specific I live south of Hampden and a bit East of Sheridan in the 80236 area. Not a bad area by comparison to my travels around the metro area. Far from LODO but still far enough from the hills to make bugging out a whole lot of work with kids.

same area I'm in too, heh

[ChunkyMonkey]

Funny... I figure I check if they have the book @ walmart since I am going there shortly. I googled it..and the first one on google is this thread...

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...ce4b7de8d5212a