A little Physical Gold and Silver if you can swing it. A Gun and some Ammo if you don’t have one already. You maybe able to do without depending on how rural and close knit your community is. Probably a couple 40 packs of Bottled Water. Not necessarily ideal but if you don’t have any other means. Certainly would buy time before resorting to Dirty Water.
Get some Rice and assorted Canned Goods. A decent bulk bag of rice can last a while if properly stored. And it can be used to stretch any canned goods. Canned Goods unless it specifically says to cook it can also be eaten out of the can cold. Won’t necessarily taste the best. But I digress.
I’d suggest flour but ground flour can be a bit of a touchy thing to store long term. And The wheat berries used to make flour will keep. But they aren’t particularly useful without a grain mill.
Also Booze. The cheaper the better. Can be used as disinfectant in a pinch and to barter.
If your outside a heavily urban area. I’d suggest some manual tools. Axe, Shovel, Pick, Hoe etc. Chain Saw and Gas powered tools are great. Until the gas runs out.
Personally I don’t foresee any long term permanent interruption. Probably a couple weeks at most before some degree of normalcy resumes at least as far as the deliveries of gas and goods to stores is concerned.
I live in an apartment on the edge of downtown, my parents live only 10 minutes from me in suburbia, and our close relatives live in down south 30 minutes from downtown in one of the newest housing developments. If I have to scuttle from the chaos downtown for a couple weeks, I have 2 immediate locations I can run to
A little Physical Gold and Silver if you can swing it. A Gun and some Ammo if you don’t have one already. You maybe able to do without depending on how rural and close knit your community is. Probably a couple 40 packs of Bottled Water. Not necessarily ideal but if you don’t have any other means. Certainly would buy time before resorting to Dirty Water.
Get some Rice and assorted Canned Goods. A decent bulk bag of rice can last a while if properly stored. And it can be used to stretch any canned goods. Canned Goods unless it specifically says to cook it can also be eaten out of the can cold. Won’t necessarily taste the best. But I digress.
I’d suggest flour but ground flour can be a bit of a touchy thing to store long term. And The wheat berries used to make flour will keep. But they aren’t particularly useful without a grain mill.
Also Booze. The cheaper the better. Can be used as disinfectant in a pinch and to barter.
If your outside a heavily urban area. I’d suggest some manual tools. Axe, Shovel, Pick, Hoe etc. Chain Saw and Gas powered tools are great. Until the gas runs out.
Personally I don’t foresee any long term permanent interruption. Probably a couple weeks at most before some degree of normalcy resumes at least as far as the deliveries of gas and goods to stores is concerned.
I live in an apartment on the edge of downtown, my parents live only 10 minutes from me in suburbia, and our close relatives live in down south 30 minutes from downtown in one of the newest housing developments. If I have to scuttle from the chaos downtown for a couple weeks, I have 2 immediate locations I can run to