What is a SHTF situation?

[Scythe13]

(12 December 2012, 09:57)bigpaul Wrote:

(12 December 2012, 09:55)Scythe13 Wrote: Using that logic then Highlander, even the film The Road, wouldn't be depicting a SHTF situation. It would have simply depicted everyday life, where people eat each other, because crops aren't growing, or anything like that. It would just be everyday life.

I get what you're saying, but feel there's much more to calling something a SHTF situation, that we realise. It's a term thrown around so often that it's become a meaningless scenario.

If the government pushed in Martial Law, and 7pm Curfews, and stuff like that, it would be normal life after the first month. Living as a Jew in Nazi Germany, a few years before WW2, that was normal life, but to the Jews it was a SHTF situation. If you can imagine yourself saying "TSHTF we need to get out of here!" Then you leave and get to a new safer destination.....then you're right, it was a SHTF situation. If it permanently changes the way you live, that's an EOTWAWKI situation. But a SHTF, can be localised, temporary, OR permanent...in which case it is also an EOTWAWKI scenario.

Does that make sense?

no i dont agree, "The Road" was NOT normal life compared the what went before, nor was it temporary, so therefore it was WTSHTF.

How do you know it wasn't temporary?

If it lasted only 15 years, that would be temporary.

I'm not saying The Road wasn't a SHTF situation. I'm just saying that the situation was ongoing and thus became 'everyday life'.