What is a SHTF situation?

[Highlander]

Normal is the way in which you are living at the time,... let me go back to Northern Ireland when I first went there in 1969,.... I was a member of the very first battalion to enter Belfast, murder and maiming was so common then it was happening almost every night,.... having to deal with that every night was then the `normal`,.... gun battles on almost a daily scale became the normal,.... we didnt think the sh*t had hit the fan,... because it was normaly like that.

So Seal although you say normal means different things to different people,...its not realy, its just what you are used to,...whatever that might be

Scythe,.... thats an interesting question, and I had to think about it,...

A tour of NI was four months, and none of us thought it too bad,... but there again its what we were trained for,.... so I am thinking that maybe the sh*t never hits the fan for people who are prepared and trained for something,.... maybe its only a case of the sh*t hitting the fan if something happens when we dont really expect it to happen
To be honest I am not sure of my answer,... I must think more about it