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yousa
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and from Google, almanacs, etc. Under the stress of shtf, you'll need at least 3 lbs per day of food. Only about half of an animal's live weight is edible. There's 100 million cats and dogs in the US. The game, birds, fish, livestock, grain, and known edible wild plants will be gone within a month or so of shtf. the dogs and cats will be gone in another month.
If the shtf in dry season, Town, cities, pine forests, grain fields and plains will burn. Guess what will happen then? The same thing that has happened throughout history. Starvation, looting, epidemics, and cannabalism. Being seen walking around, trying to hunt or trap, etc, will get you shot, almost certainly. Noisy gunshots, motors, etc, will draw the desperate to you. You will be competition and a threat, so why wouldn't a guy just shoot you on sight, without warning, from a braced firing position and cover, hmm?
For nearly a year after shtf, you can't show signs of gardening, or you'll get shot and your crops stolen. So you need to cache a nearly a year's supply of food, for each person that you wish to try to save. 1000 lbs is a lot of food-bulk. It will fill a van or a 3/4 ton pickup truck with camper. One person, not 4-5. with 4 people in an SUV, you can't haul enough food to feed those 4 people for much more than a month, 2 months at most.
If the shtf in dry season, Town, cities, pine forests, grain fields and plains will burn. Guess what will happen then? The same thing that has happened throughout history. Starvation, looting, epidemics, and cannabalism. Being seen walking around, trying to hunt or trap, etc, will get you shot, almost certainly. Noisy gunshots, motors, etc, will draw the desperate to you. You will be competition and a threat, so why wouldn't a guy just shoot you on sight, without warning, from a braced firing position and cover, hmm?
For nearly a year after shtf, you can't show signs of gardening, or you'll get shot and your crops stolen. So you need to cache a nearly a year's supply of food, for each person that you wish to try to save. 1000 lbs is a lot of food-bulk. It will fill a van or a 3/4 ton pickup truck with camper. One person, not 4-5. with 4 people in an SUV, you can't haul enough food to feed those 4 people for much more than a month, 2 months at most.