If you haven't prepared your home and family yet, during the next two weeks begin prepping for 3 to 4 weeks of Civil Unrest.
This does NOT mean total SHTF scenario.
Keep in mind that stores only maintain about a 2 to 3 day supply of inventory for the local community. If trucking is disrupted nationally, even if only 50% disrupted, it can put a serious kink in deliveries and store inventories. Consider also the local panic rush on the stores due to unrest... and you will see how fast commodities disappear from store shelves. Same goes for gasoline at service stations.
During civil unrest, the first thing authorities do is lock down travel. The easiest way to do that is control of interstates and restrict gasoline / fuel sales. Even if authorities don't intentionally block trucking, there are always unintended consequences.
I'm just advising that, over the next 2 weeks or so, go over your plans.
Make sure you have several 5-gallon gas cans topped off.
Get enough supplies so that you can be self-sufficient and aren't reliant on stores for up to 3 weeks. Don't worry about water and electricity. I don't think those will be affected. Mainly, stock up on what you need in case food or other supplies get cut off for a brief while.
If we have a presidential transition, followed immediately by another "presidential" transition, then an attempt by Pelosi at assuming power, then military steps in... it can all hit the fan. Imagine the unrest in some major cities. Now imagine the steps needed to contain it and calm it back down. Now imagine you have to run to the store to get supplies during that time. Yup. Don't be that guy.
Is anyone that lives in a big city concerned with water supply?
I live in a big NE (north east) city in an apartment complex 20+ stories in the air. I have plenty of food to sustain what you/others have warned about, but my main concern has always been water/gas.
I have enough pasta to feed me and my family for months, but without water and heat it's useless. Are there any other folks living in big cities that are equally concerned that a happening could result in loss of drinkable water/any water at all? Local food stores having empty shelves for 2/3 weeks wouldn't be too hard to deal with. But loss of running water for more than a day would be catastrophic, and water isn't the easiest thing to store.
Anyone have similar thoughts? Even if the water is tainted, with a gas stove I can always boil to make it drinkable/useable for cooking. But is there even a reasonable possibility an entire city's water supply shuts off and the tap stops running? Or am I just being a bit too paranoid?
They sell these bags for emergency water storage that you can put in your bathtub. If you lose power you hopefully have water pressure for a period of time, and you can use that time to put the bag in the bathtub and fill it up.
https://www.amazon.com/NUBE-Generator-Ecological-Sustainable-Dehumidifier/dp/B01N7LUKFG
Are you seriously asking me if you are too paranoid? Because I have my own issues. Plus, they really are out to get us. Kill us, actually.
Yes relying on another entity for water is a risk. If you have a patio/balcony perhaps you can get a cistern that can collect rain water? Besides that and stocking up, there's really no way around it if you rely on city water. There are solar cookers that can boil water without using power.