What is a SHTF situation?

[Highlander]

Its not easy is it?,..I am not sure I know the answer, maybe its just simply the words we use, `sh*t hits the fan` its dramatic.

Throughout history the human race has gone through some very big events,.. each time we have adapted,..ok in the first instance `the sh*t hit the fan` but each time we managed through it, life became hard and dangerous, but the longer it went on the more normal it became

I mean look at Japan,.. the fall out from that plant was equal to a small nuke bomb, it wiped out half the country, killed thousands,... yet people are back to `normal`, and have been for a month or more,..it might not be the `normal` of before, but its become the normal way of life to them, and for them its long term... but they have adapted,....