If all else fails

What would you do tomorrow if the grocery stores did not open? Would you have enough food to feed yourself and your children? What if they didn't open the next day or even the rest of the week? What about a month or beyond? This would be a nightmare beyond all proportions. What if other major item facilities didn't open either like gas stations? In the Army I have always been taught to prepare for the worst case scenario and have multiple options available for any situation. I have done this in my job and in providing options for my Commanders on the battlefield. I can honestly tell you that I have not done this in my home life. We generally keep enough shelf stable food for about a week, and I generally smart enough to make a homemade freezer that can help keep other food for about a day. But I can honestly tell you I have a shortage of ammunition and probably couldn't support much after that. I could hunt and trap pretty easily but it wouldn’t be long in a city such a Fayetteville before all that is living edible is gone. I have always been a pretty good scrounger and could probably find enough food to get by for a while. I mean how many people know that Dandelions are edible and actually can be a pretty good salad, or even know what poke salad looks like or now that you need to boil 3 times to remove the poisons. Basically if it has the black seeds on it don't eat it. Could you survive, probably not without help? This is when actually becoming a village or a close nit community will be a must. Civilization will be crumbling around us, you would have to know how to defend you community and yourselves. The men and the women would have to work together and all become warriors, hunters, gatherers, and a larger family group. The two biggest things that you will need to have is a faith in God that he will help guide you and your small nit community. The other would be hope. Hope that state or federal government had gotten its head out of its fourth point of contact and is helping out small communities or at least letting they know they are working toward them. The next thing that we will all have to do is relearn the long forgotten tricks of the trade that our forefathers failed to pass down. Blacksmithing will be a key element, just finding the materials will be essential. Do you know where you can find iron ore? Just finding horses these days to be able to plow a field and plant food for the next harvest will be an amazing feet. Who still has a working horse drawn plow? I think my plan once all else failed and no help was coming would be to pack up our items that we had left, the cars would really be out the window and start heading north to my parents’ house. We would probably be walking, so it would take a few days to get there, but that would be our best bet. It is a heavily rural community away from large populated centers. There we would rebuild and attempt to communicate with our other family members and friends and develop further courses of action if plan A failed. It would be tough but with our collective knowledge of modern methods and education that was not there in the past will help us survive and eventually thrive. So just a piece of advice don’t turn into a militia crazy person but have a little extra to help survive, maybe a couple extra bullets, a small storage a food that will help in any situation, maybe some seeds too. What do you think post your comments?