When do YOU start looting.

[Paul]

Having a read back at all the comments, I realized I hadn't answered all the original questions so:

When do I start looting?
If it's not a CBRN event, almost immediately.
I'd probably let the nutters and rioters smash up everything first.
Not because I'm lazy, but I'd let them pass through and quietly forage through what's left.
I've got no qualms about looting to boost my supplies.
Prescription drugs would be my number one target with fuel a close second.

How do you see the situation evolving on the streets?
Mass panic and disorderly evacuation because people will run for no more reason than no one tells them to stay put.

Inner Cities, will riot and loot at the first sign of civic disruption with fast moving crowds like last time, initially looting then destroying anything and everything. Why? Because they can.

The countryside dwellers won't react too quickly to anything.
Them who live rurally are usually better "supplied" than townies because of the distance they have to travel.

What do you think will happen in regards to law and order?
Same as last time, no plod anywhere, they'll wait until it's all over.
If it turns out to be a full on ROL collapse, perhaps, just perhaps, the forces will be deployed (if not tied up dealing with something else) but way after the initial looting and destruction had finished because they will only be deployed on the orders of COBRA and they take weeks to act on anything

Do you honestly think you'll need to bug out?
I'm rural but once it arrives at my door, it'll be too late.
I'm loath to put myself outside my home security especially if it's a big die off.
I definitely won't want to bug out if it's a CBRN event.

A ROL collapse though I'll probably stay until we got burnt out.
There's better security behind bricks and mortar than in front of it.
After all where are you going to go to and how?
Outside you're so vulnerable.

If you're staying put, how long will you be hiding for?
As long as I can. If it's a big die off it could take 2-3 months.
If it's a total ROL collapse, order will be restored by someone as the UK is money driven, it'll probably be by foreign troops so 2-3 weeks.
Just as soon as the NWO can arrange it I suppose.

How will you keep an eye on the situation outside?
Apart from a peephole? Radio I'm guessing.
TV will probably go down and sticking your nose out could be "counter productive" to your health.
So radio and telephone if it kept on running.

What length of time do you leave it until you leave your home and come outside?
CBRN basic drill says 28-35 days.
That allows most bugs to incubate and kill off the infected and their carers but if it was a mass die off, once everyone had stopped moving.
Radiation / Nuclear? An absolute minimum of 14 days.
If it's a ROL collapse, once order had been restored.

Really good thread this is.