You can easily store enough beans and rice to live off of for months (could bury them even to hide how much you have), all you need is a water source and then stuff to start a fire and cook in. Also, depending on climate you can even start growing the beans easily
Knowing your neighbors so you can work together if when it is needed, not just food but, securing your neighborhood, medical needs and all that.
If you do have a lot of supplies/food, dont skip the lines to get food and all that so you wont become a target. Prepare to make button soup with the neighborhood, "everyone pitching in a single food item into the pot" = everyone getting a little to eat.
I agree that, if it is long term, desperate people will overrun others eventually.
Going on what my brother (lives on east coast now) has told me, COVID shortages made it much easier to discuss potential supply issues with neighbors regarding prep work.
They have discussed I their situation with neighbors & floated the idea of generally helping neighbors in the worst case scenario, and that others around them should have enough to help their own fam as well as neighbors who didn't prepare enough. This helps everyone & then it doesn't get into a desperate showdown with haves vs have nots.
In our neighborhood, we have many elderly that may not be ready IF we lose power in the winter. The plan among our neighbors is to get them all into the few homes that can heat up without power (there are about a dozen) to prevent anyone from dying due to cold. As a neighborhood we have generally decided to help each other & most are prepared/getting prepared still in case we need to defend the neighborhood from outside threats. Threats have been determined to possibly be wildlife & possibly groups looking to harm the neighborhood (BLM protests got the entire neighborhood to realize that nobody is safe in a situation like that again, even rural areas).
General prep discussions can be had with many since COVID created a real minor threat & it effected everyone somehow. 2 weeks - 2 months of prep just make sense to almost everyone at this point.
You can easily store enough beans and rice to live off of for months (could bury them even to hide how much you have), all you need is a water source and then stuff to start a fire and cook in. Also, depending on climate you can even start growing the beans easily
Knowing your neighbors so you can work together if when it is needed, not just food but, securing your neighborhood, medical needs and all that. If you do have a lot of supplies/food, dont skip the lines to get food and all that so you wont become a target. Prepare to make button soup with the neighborhood, "everyone pitching in a single food item into the pot" = everyone getting a little to eat.
I agree that, if it is long term, desperate people will overrun others eventually.
Going on what my brother (lives on east coast now) has told me, COVID shortages made it much easier to discuss potential supply issues with neighbors regarding prep work.
They have discussed I their situation with neighbors & floated the idea of generally helping neighbors in the worst case scenario, and that others around them should have enough to help their own fam as well as neighbors who didn't prepare enough. This helps everyone & then it doesn't get into a desperate showdown with haves vs have nots.
In our neighborhood, we have many elderly that may not be ready IF we lose power in the winter. The plan among our neighbors is to get them all into the few homes that can heat up without power (there are about a dozen) to prevent anyone from dying due to cold. As a neighborhood we have generally decided to help each other & most are prepared/getting prepared still in case we need to defend the neighborhood from outside threats. Threats have been determined to possibly be wildlife & possibly groups looking to harm the neighborhood (BLM protests got the entire neighborhood to realize that nobody is safe in a situation like that again, even rural areas).
General prep discussions can be had with many since COVID created a real minor threat & it effected everyone somehow. 2 weeks - 2 months of prep just make sense to almost everyone at this point.