LC~ you can get those containers around here for about 2K, delivered. I have a buddy who bought a few.
If SHTF, upon reflection, at work, I would most definitly go to my boyfriend's parent's house, which is only 4 miles away. They are disabled, so I know my eagle scout would get there at some point. They have enough munitions, survival gear, and food to outlast everyone. (Mom went a little nuts at Y2K.)
I find it interesting that most of us expect to depend on technology in a world where sooner or later there will be none.
Guns will be fine until the Ammo is used up, then what.?
I went checking about the businesses that sell survival gear and found that one place sells of all things a perfect item that I had forgotten all about.
Slingshots, all kinds, wrist rockets to small pocket ones. There are all kind of bags from the plastic to leather to shoot everything from ball barrings to 2 once cleaned up rocks. At the speed of a thrown base ball that 2 ounces will kill in a heart beat or disable anyone hit in the organs. These things like the cross bow and the manual bow and arrow are silent compaired with a gun and have no or little noise or a flash in the dark.
I was eyeing a tool that I use for crafts that will be invaluable, small and light, a box set of different X-ACTO knives and chisels. Worse comes to worse a walking stick can be made using the kit, I have seen these being hand made at country fairs and some are fantastic, makes a good weapon also.
Walking 20 miles in an emergency is tricky, I believe I would just follow the railroad tracks and try to stay as far from others as possible.
I would empty my purse of everything of any weight, cosmetics, hair brushes, just carry ID, Break the glass in the vending machines at work and fill the purse with high calorie candy bars but no salted items as that will cause thirst.
Shoes will be a problem unless one gets in the habit of having sneakers to change into from high heels or men's dress shoes .
Depending on time of the year and the area, one must change plans, one will have to alter plans 4 times a year. In summer a long way home may be safer and in a blizzard and extreme cold, the shortest way home may be best.
Thinking will be fuzzy, the unexpected shock of having the impossible actually happen will turn the majority into stone stupid sheep. Human nature that if a family, group of friends find everything has been turned upside down, their first impulse will be to try to protect the others. People will expect to be saved by others in authority and not panic until they realise the authority's are on the run themselves.
A bomb in a crowed mall will cause much more harm then one placed on a street corner. People on the street will run and spread out keep moving. One in a mall will trap people inclose them prevent them from escape with no idea if there is another bomb under their feet.
Bijou ----Carry that first aid kit for YOURSELF. The stranger you wish to help may slit your throat to get their hands on that kit for themselves. It is not just the mentally ill to fear, it is those that are perfectally sane that will be the most dangerous.
Survival is uppermost in the mind, people will abandon their family, friends and sink into animal behavior without any time to think about what they are doing.
This debate has been going on since the 1950's when people stored water and peanut butter in their cellar as a make do fall out shelter.
So you somehow make it home and find everyone in your family from parents to children didn't make it. Outside of the nature to survive, what at your age do you have to live for that is worth killing others off.? 20-30 years old, everything, 40-50 the skills and knowledge and can do is very valuable. 60-75 is the time to work for others not themselves.
This has been fun so far to contemplate living a life in what was SIFI-in books and movies.
Oh how so many of us lie to ourselves about who or what we are and how we would want to behave in a hard time. Sad, like the old saying, "I would never do that" Oh yes given the circumstances we will without a second thought.
I now have lost the poster that started this whole shebang, it has morphed into other topics, no problem with that Survival is at the top of the list for human needs.
Problem is, humanity only grew and expanded by the collaboration of others. Loan wolves don't last long. eventually these lone folks have to turn to a society to survive or die alone.
America could never have grown had it not been for like minded people gathering and caring for each other. Individuality with in the group, some man may have a knack for growing vegetables while 4 of the neighbors wives can make quilts, sew, knit or crochet.
The government gets all shook up over like minded people that gather together. But it is to our benefit to gather, pray or hoist a beer with those that think like you.
Our technology changes day to day but human nature stays the same, Question Authority.