When it comes to hypothetical situations of when all hell breaks loose and the grid goes down or a major disaster hits, many survivalists have an idea of what will happen. Whether this mentality has come from pop culture or literature, everyone has their own theories.
Take a second and think about all of the books that have been written about a prepper post-collapse or a popular post-apocalyptic TV show. Also, that doesn't always include the fears everyone feels but doesn't always vocalize when they consider a SHTF situation.
However, when survivalists take the time to mull over these far-fetched theories, they may realize that some of them are total BS.
To learn the difference between reality and myth, survivalists should always question the following assumptions that we're about to discuss.
After the break find out the answers to what many people believe to be true about a coming SHTF situation. It's time we learned how to separate common “truth” from complete prepper BS.
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This whole list is absolute garbage! Your #1 is 100% opposing of your #4 & #5. If they stay in the city (#1) who do you propose will be the band’s in the country (#4,#5)? People are rioting and looting NOW, you don’t think that it’ll be 1000 times worse when their welfare checks are cut off?!?? Some of your articles are good. This one is completely wrong!
I think you make a lot of good points here. During the great depression, people tended to gravitate towards cities.
Many preppers seem to live in a complete fantasy world regarding what will actually happen following any major disaster. History tells us what we need to now. Unless there is a complete multi-national breakdown of society, where no relief is coming from any nation, such as TEOTWAWKI, violence with be rather limited compared to most people expectations.
http://emergencysituation.ca/security/disaster-violence/
I think you make a lot of good points here. During the great depression, people tended to gravitate towards cities.
Many preppers seem to live in a complete fantasy world regarding what will actually happen following any major disaster. History tells us what we need to know. Unless there is a complete multi-national breakdown of society, where no relief is coming from any nation, such as TEOTWAWKI, violence will be rather limited compared to most people’s expectations. Further to this, if order is ever restored (which it will be unless we go extinct), people who committed crimes during the disaster, will likely be brought to justice… eventually.
http://emergencysituation.ca/security/disaster-violence/
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Lol limited violence my$#%&!@*
Find me modern examples of mass violence following a disaster in any industrialized nation on earth.
I am sorry I disagree with rural migration to urban areas. I personally have known many folks who lived through the great depression. And none of them “migrated” to city sites. Why? They had food, water and so forth. The only need for money was taxes for most which they were able to cover peddling their goods to folks in the cities who could not get food (or. Produce, meat) from the stores. They sold those goods cheap. And did quite well I might add. A ww2 vet who has since passed away once told me , ” what depression, we had everything we needed”. So while keeping all bases covered is a good thing and being prepared is what prepping is about. Being able to take advantage of each and every situation is more important than worrying what end of world catastrophe might kill us. Prepping…..being prepared not to survive but thrive in a world that can not.
Yep, my grandfather and great grandfather would drive the model t to town once a week to sell vegetables, furs, and meat they harvested. Fill up on gasoline to get through the next week. In fact they’d often be so short on gas going into town he learned how to conserve fuel by driving up hill stepping on the clutch and kill the engine until his momentum wasn’t enough to get up the next hill. He took that technique into WWII and was often the only bomber to return with fuel left in the tank.
When those EBT cards quit working you’re going to have loads of looting, rioting and other criminal activity. Many of those people sell the food they buy in order to get drugs. During the Depression they didn’t have that problem. If city water and sewage and electricity goes out. People today are going to freak out and the disease problems that accompany lack of sanitation will become rampant.
Your right and the only place to get food and clean water WILL be farms and ranches! So the premise of a rural migration to big cities is VERY wrong!
I live on a self sufficient farm. I’m not going anywhere. Why prep when you can live it?
I disagree with more than one
Prepping because?? Same reasons I don’t buy ammo one box at a time ,or toilet paper by the square,When the$#%&!@*hits,I want to be able to clean it up!
The fact is,nobody can predict exactly what will happen,but it’s always better to be prepared for the worst.
Some things are simply a matter of interpetation. If I lived in Ferguson, or near the nonsense in other cities, my choice would be to deal with it, or grab a backpack and go camping.
All the nuclear power plants would melt down after about a year so it doesn’t matter