This is especially relevant now with the SNAP benefits about to be suspended due to the shutdown in DC. There are already people making threats of what they will do if they don't get their food stamps. And here it is, already getting cold.

I keep both vehicles topped off with gas, and have trauma kits and rucks in both. I heat the house with a woodstove that I can also cook on. Our local PD is down to 2 officers and the chief, and in our county, after 0200, there is one LEO in the entire county working, and he is sitting in an office 20 miles away.

Now is not the time to be complacent. A couple of extra cases of bottled water, solar-powered security lights, and a generator can make your life a lot less complicated when the have-nots decide they are hungry.