What is a SHTF situation?

[bigpaul]

(12 December 2012, 10:13)Scythe13 Wrote: 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'.

what i'm saying is, you have to have a base line for what is "normal" first, so we HAVE to say the life we have now is NORMAL or at least its normal for the 21st century, now anything that alters that normalcy FOR GOOD..there aint no coming back to it, its not temporary-not even for 15 years...its permanent, then that is your SHTF event, yes you could say that new life then becomes normal life but its NOT the same normal life that went before, its different.