No water scenario

[Mortblanc]

I am not sure how long I could hold out.

First, I would have to use up the 2500 gallons in the cistern. Using 3 gallons a day for drinking, washing and cooking that should last oh, I don't know, maybe 800 days?

Then I would have to start hauling water from the Lake.

How long does it take to drink up a lake 2 miles long and 1/2 mile wide?

We have never in history suffered a drought that gave us no rain for a full year. It simply does not happen in my area. It is an equally unlikely scenario in GB.

As for the power shut off being the warning???

Usually power shut off is the catalyst that starts SHTF in the urban setting. In most rural areas power shut off is merely an inconvenience one prepares for as normal course of country life.

I would think that the first sign of SHTF in the rural setting would be seeing a flow of refugees with back packs, on bicycles, motorbikes and in overloaded small cars trying desperately to find the BOL they always dreamed of.