"The Great Die Off"

[Skvez]

LS: It depends a bit on what they define as “rural”.

People living in a town of less than 10 000 people may be considered to be rural but most of those people have no land and many will have preps that only cover some areas (they may have heat and power to survive power lost due to a winter storm but no long term food or water preps).

Most US land is mono-cultured, not homesteaded. One crops becomes available for only one or two weeks of the year. The area is vast and requires machines to harvest where it’s shipped somewhere else to be processed into food. Vast areas of food would be lost after an event due to lack of the infrastructure to process it. And while massive quantities of corn-on-the-cob may provide calories it’s not a balanced diet you can live on.

The unemployment rate is also very high in rural areas .Lots on unemployed people living in low quality housing with no job, no land and no preps worth speaking of.

I think 20% of rural yanks prepping could be optimistic. Of-course it depends in whether you mean prep sufficient to survive three days or three months. In a big event you may need food to survive 18 months (through the first lawless year and then until harvest the second year after the big die-off). I think very few people have preps that can last that long.