Firstly; apologies if a similar type thread has already been done to death!
The recent heavy snowfall has got me contemplating what would happen if a 'real' catatrophe were to happen in this country.
At the height of the snowfall earlier this month, I went to Sainsburys to do our weekly shop, and to my amazement i found the shelves of bread almost completely empty, where people were panic buying through fear of being snowed in and not being able to reach the supermarket for a few days. This then lead to further panic, as people were then worried about when the stocks were being replenished, like they were on the verge of starvation or something! It was really funny to witness.
It made me think; what would happen, if for some bizarre reason, the supermarkets could not fill their shelves for, say, 6 months, and the governmental system broke down so aid could not be provided (i.e world war, natural disaster etc). People would surely starve and anarchy would develop.
I thought to myself; "I would be ok, i could hunt Deer in the woods, catch Trout in my local river and live off the land", but with the whole country in the same predicament, everybody would surely have the same idea, and there would be hundreds of people armed to the teeth wandering around the woods, and surely all the Deer and all the trout would quickly be consumed. Rioting would develop, and people would be guarding their patches of woodland and river to prevent woodland 'looting', and surely thousands would die of starvation.
What would be your survival plan if something like the above happened? Would you try and move to a remote region like the highlands of scotland, to get away from the anarchy in the towns and cities?
I think I would try and position myself somewhere remote, near the coastline, with a good bit of woodland nearby.
Anyone else ever thought about this? The Supermarkets really have got people where they want them in this country!
The recent heavy snowfall has got me contemplating what would happen if a 'real' catatrophe were to happen in this country.
At the height of the snowfall earlier this month, I went to Sainsburys to do our weekly shop, and to my amazement i found the shelves of bread almost completely empty, where people were panic buying through fear of being snowed in and not being able to reach the supermarket for a few days. This then lead to further panic, as people were then worried about when the stocks were being replenished, like they were on the verge of starvation or something! It was really funny to witness.
It made me think; what would happen, if for some bizarre reason, the supermarkets could not fill their shelves for, say, 6 months, and the governmental system broke down so aid could not be provided (i.e world war, natural disaster etc). People would surely starve and anarchy would develop.
I thought to myself; "I would be ok, i could hunt Deer in the woods, catch Trout in my local river and live off the land", but with the whole country in the same predicament, everybody would surely have the same idea, and there would be hundreds of people armed to the teeth wandering around the woods, and surely all the Deer and all the trout would quickly be consumed. Rioting would develop, and people would be guarding their patches of woodland and river to prevent woodland 'looting', and surely thousands would die of starvation.
What would be your survival plan if something like the above happened? Would you try and move to a remote region like the highlands of scotland, to get away from the anarchy in the towns and cities?
I think I would try and position myself somewhere remote, near the coastline, with a good bit of woodland nearby.
Anyone else ever thought about this? The Supermarkets really have got people where they want them in this country!
