The best education in my life was being out of work for a year, when the economy crashed in 1987, moving 1000 miles, living in my car, and making a major career change. I survived that, if the marriage did not, managed a second career to retire debt free with a modest pension and a few rural acres "outside the moderate damage radius". Hurricanes, ice storms, power outages up to two Weeks, are par for the course. Anything short of government sanctioned genocide is normal. Life isn't fair, so get over it. Keep buggering on!
It is just keeping things moving while events are happening around us. This time of year I start eyeing up our wood stocks for winter; planting greens for winter food. Don't we all have one ear cocked on the news to make sure no hint of trouble is missed? I spotted cheap candles the other day - I'm going back this weekend to stock up. I just want to make sure that I don't miss any warning signs on impending problems.
(22 May 2014, 17:48)Jonas Wrote: [ -> ]Our six kids, their spouses, and all the grandkids showing up on our front door 3 hours after the SHTF... I'm stocking up on extra ammunition! 
That's a bit of an ambiguous comment Jonas.
You planning to use it to keep them away, equip them, or make them leave?
For me and mine it is all about the smaller issues so called. I have not been able to really embrace the end or the whirling blades attitude although I do accept that if you can think about it then there just might be a possibility that an extreme thing might happen. Just being aware of the fact that in reality one is on ones' own no matter what when it comes down to the wire is a sobering thought.
So, power cuts, food supply interrupts, cash flow probs, transport issues, health, security, communications. All of the above relative to my family unit.
That makes sense iaaems. I regularly question the idea of a full collapse, but if I'm able to deal with a massive situation, the smaller ones will be almost non-event.
most of the smaller events are what I call "real life" and most of us have already dealt with them several times over during our lifetimes, which is why I am planning for the large events as the smaller ones are almost irrelevant as I lived through them before and will again.
so in the last 1000yrs nothing big has happned in the uk or the uas.
ww1
ww2
us civle war
english civle war
the black death
1930s crash in usa and uk.
prince chaz telling a granny putins is like adolf hitler... ww3
apart from the last one, its a case of "not in our lifetimes" , even WW2 was 70 years ago and was too early even for me!!