Cities exist only because of readily available supplies of food and
water. Both of those depend on cheap and available fuel for trucks, and
low cost electricity. The government will do whatever is necessary to
maintain basic services in cities because that is where most voters
live. In other words, the well being of people living in rural areas
will be sacrificed (initially) to mollify city dwellers. I could see
government-sanctioned foraging posses that would "borrow" readily
available food and fuel from people who live outside urban areas.

Not a pretty scenario.

SteveB wrote:

"Terry Collins" wrote


7. Consider what you would bring with you if you had to leave your home
in 10 min. and never return.

This is more than just thinking about what is important, it is actually
a survival skill. If you are in the city and your plan is to escape to
the countryside, you have ten minutes to chuck your bicycle and stuff
into your vehicle and hit the road so you are in front of the exodus
wave. Unless you are in front of that wave, you are soon going to end up
in a traffic jam, or stranded without fuel as everyone suddenly tanks up
to leave or move on.


Ah, a light in the darkness. A man with some reason. Thank you, Terry for
being an oasis in a desert of PC rants.

I have thought of what might happen if this scenario unfolds. It goes
something like this.

GO TO THE COUNTRYSIDE? HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING CRACK?

The wave of humanity moves inland over the roads.

People overwhelm local supplies of gasoline by their sheer numbers, and
people are fighting and killing of each other to get gas. Gas is stolen
from local vehicles. Any local vehicle that is full of gas is stolen, and a
dead empty car left in its place. Deliveries can't be made because of
traffic jams and shut down pipelines and distribution centers.

Some people who have big gas tanks or extra gas are headed inland and will
make it. I have heard the mountains and countryside as a destination. But
the people who already live there will be defending their land and stocks
from the horde of city locusts. Warfare will take place for food, water,
and shelter.

People will only be able to bring so much "stuff" in their Volvo. Probably
DVDs, CDs, jewelry, Cuisinarts, good cigars, a marijuana stash, designer
perfumes, Gucci shoes, and such, and not so strong on things like survival
gear. They will be ill equipped to camp out, and subsistance hunt.

The fanatics who have already moved out to the countryside and mountains
will have target practice on these new untrained newbies. Those who have
set up home food storage programs will bunker in, but will be beseiged, just
as ancient cities were. They will be trapped like rats. They will survive
as long as their foods last, and they are not over run. They will have the
weather and elements on their side.

Long story short, everyone will be running all over the place with no place
to go. City folks with experience only in mall shopping or car hopping will
not do too well out on the farms or in the mountains, and most will freeze
solid as a popsicle the first winter. Game will all but disappear with the
influx of new people making the ratio of people to game about 100 to one.
Food will be in short supply or nonexistant because of lack of trucks.

So, if it makes one feel better by sitting aside a disaster pack "in case
you have to leave and can never come back," be sure to take a handgun. And
save that last shot.

Steve