What is a SHTF situation?

[Highlander]

(11 December 2012, 10:36)Scythe13 Wrote:

(11 December 2012, 09:00)Highlander Wrote: SHTF has to be something that is out of the normal, that has to be effecting,.. not your life, but the way you have to live your life from that point on, no matter what the emergency is,.. if at the end of the day everything returns to normal, then the s**t didnt hit the fan

I really agree with that. The only thing I would add, would be a timescale to the amount of time you have to live in the changed way.

I just had a bath, so gave your question some more thought Scythe

I am not sure if there ever would be a `time period`,..if anything happened I am sure we would all shout that `the sh*t has hit the fan`, but thats more a statemnet about the country as a whole, as preppers we would be much more prepared and so wouldnt be quiet so suprised or shocked

....and of course the longer it went on the more `normal` life would become,..if the grid went down we may well be very suprised at just how quickly we would become used to it, we would adapt

That may well be the difference between `preppers` and `none preppers`, it might not be so much what we do now, as what we become after an event, to us these two are linked together, to others they are not