Do you trust the state to save you

[bigpaul]

I know probably 2 or 3 people I could count on "when the chips are down", I have known them for over 30 years-unfortunately they live in a city over 40 miles away and I don't know if they could or would make it out in time to escape the scavengers and the looters and the general mayhem that would ensue(their bikers not preppers!)

[Jonas]

Of course I trust the US government and FEMA to save me in a disaster! Look at the wonderful job that they did after Hurricane Katrina... err... Rita... err... Sandy... err...

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[NorthernRaider]

(6 December 2013, 18:58)Jonas Wrote: Of course I trust the US government and FEMA to save me in a disaster! Look at the wonderful job that they did after Hurricane Katrina... err... Rita... err... Sandy... err...

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I saw the news report only about 3 weeks ago from Windy Point NY and the people being interviewed a year after the event said neither FEMA nor their insurance companies had provided any funds of help.

[Talon]

No.You would have to be a fool to hope the government would step in and come to the aid of the common masses.

[MaryN]

And the answer to that question is... nope! You have to be kidding - most of the people you would expect to be in charge of "saving" the citizens of this country are clueless idiots. And I apologise most sincerely to any of the paramedics, firefighters etc. who have to put up with the latest round of political crap that emerges on a daily basis from the Government.

[BDG]

(6 December 2013, 10:40)NorthernRaider Wrote: Try living up here, if you come out of London on the A1M or M1 it is four lanes wide in places, by the time it reaches Northumberland its down to a single lane enroute to Edinburgh

Leeming to Scotch Corner is what saves us from the hordes!

It is a laugh once you get past Morpeth and it goes to one lane. Almost immediately, you get up by the Fenrother turn off and there is the garage that specialises in ex military stuff - landies big trucks. There is a reason you might want that stuff up there.

[Timelord]

I could walk along a single track road just as easily as a four lane motorway...

[bigpaul]

(8 December 2013, 17:33)Timelord Wrote: I could walk along a single track road just as easily as a four lane motorway...

depends on how much traffic is on it, I dare say!!