Where Will Most Go "first" Looking For Food And Water And??? Post Massive Shtf

Strangely I never really thought about this till just now. And not something about which I have any past experience. I would assume, most would go to the nearest Fire Station or Police Station. They might start with their neighbor, my wild guess is that at some point......after exploring all easy options, the people in cities like Anchorage, Alaska might go to the massive military base, especially if they had served their country........but maybe a bases will be locked down.

For the purpose of this question.....assume about three to five days post SHTF, and the stores are empty of food and water, there is some degree of looting, and zero help has appeared to manage the SHTF disaster. Just a lot of people wondering where to go.

Where do you think people will go looking for help in the early stages.......???

 

People are just totally programed that help will be coming, it always has.

 

Warehouses that are restaurant supply and grocery supply warehouses. They will also probably m=be a lot of people that are going to hit the homes of people that they see as "More" well to do. I was raised where there were grain elevators and driers.

 

I suspect looting would be one of the earlier sources of food, and then desperation would cause inactivity in many and aimless wandering in others.

 

If someone is a member of a church, this would be a place they would certainly go. I think initially, some might head towards the city looking for FEMA, Red Cross, etc for help. Being retired military, I’m sure the bases would be locked down tight.

For me, I’d grab my rifle and go find me a moose.

 

Basic human behaviour will mean the easiest and most obvious locations will be hit first by most.
A few will know where a loaded truck is or a small warehouse is or a well stocked restaurant is
and the fast food places will get cleaned out, how much has a mcdonalds or kfc got in store, probably more than a guy can carry if you are first in.
Quick and easy to put a bin liner in your wheelie bin and divert downpipes to fill them with water with maybe some junk around them to hide them somewhat. pots can get replanted with radish and parsley, not many calories but some vitamins and minerals. and cherry tomatoes even sheeple could think of that.

 

Yeh but it rains every second day so only the real idiots will die of thirst

 

Sheeple are not that stupid well not all of them

 

I would agree with AlaskaJohn. I think the first stop for the desperate will be a church. After that it would be City, County, State Government offices. local municipalities, police and fire stations. Schools might be another possibility. There is a commonality and a comfort level being with people you probably know. There are facilities there to cook for large numbers of people, and if they needed shelter there is plenty of room to crash.

After exhausting those possibilities then the looting will start. Every retail outlet will be fair game with big food stores, Sam's, Wal Mart being the big targets.

 

I think you will see two totally different types of people, the looters will start near instantly. But those are one type, there are those who would not only never consider looting, but would look elsewhere for possible assistance, as in church, private clubs (Elks, Lions, Moose, Oddfellows, VFW, etc..).

When it gets sporting.....and time to circle the wagons........the VFW hall, might be a spot that even the stupidest gaggle of looters, would think twice before launching an attack.

 

I agree there is a criminal element that will start looting and breaking the law at the drop of a hat. All they need is an excuse. Law abiding people will follow other avenues until they are desperate.

 

my observation , the areas that will loot at the drop of a hat can be identified by racial demographics . Any prepper should consider this before hunkering down and waiting for SHTF

 

Another difference in the UK is that people are unlikely to expect help from a church unless they have previous links to the Latter Day Saints.
Across the summer there were serious droughts in the UK over the last couple of years. Rainfall is not guaranteed and even if it happens there may be issues with contamination in a Nuclear, Biological, Radiological or Chemical event.
Many of the U.K. Population that go into a serious long term break down of society/starvation event without any preparation will fail to survive the first 6 weeks.
Most UK households have only 3-7 days stored food, the just in time economy means that supermarkets may only have three days stock during normal times, probably only a few hours stock if panic buying and hoarding happens. Most people's go to source of knowledge is the Internet, they even use it for digital radio...when the power goes, so will most of the communication and access to information.
As for rioting, I have no faith in the populations of any of our cities. I firmly believe that in the event of food shortages we would see a repeat of the 2011 riots, looting and arson..

 

All Western megalopolises will burn.

Urban looting only lasts so long. They weary.

Organized gangs of looters / career felons will go mobile and attempt to live off of the self-sufficient folk of their country's Heartland. Such gangs will see 80 - 90% attrition. In the process of wiping-out these predators, many good and honest folk will lose their lives. Such is why we must arm and practice constantly in the use of our weapons.

The most horrific looters will be the military. The USA has ENORMOUS quantities of stored food in government facilities, old salt mines. This is because of attempts to control food prices. The government used/uses some of this for welfare and disaster relief. I don't know how long these supplies would take care of the cities, but were I a city-dweller, I sure wouldn't count on this stuff to continually to show up. The military will be charged with the task of redistribution from productive people to the cattle people.

It's gonna be a mess. It's gonna be violent.

 

Agreed, many of the city gangs seem to be obsessed with maintaining control of their postcode (turf) they appear to have limited horizons.

 

Me TOO.........I aspire to control my area.......regretfully some very large bears also are hell'bent on controlling the area.

 

I have a live and let live policy with most critters as long as they don't mess with my garden, my critters and DON'T dispute my place at the top of the food chain.

 

Realistically........that is pretty much exactly how I figure things will unfold. Only thing I would add.......I really don't think people will be able to move, as I would expect locals to have every road blocked. I would be very surprised if people could drive or even walk more then one or two blocks from home.

 

People will look to the military / Homeland Security. The government has prep.s. But, for how long?! Military personnel have families too, duh! Military and Police are going to look after their own, duh! Who's keeping the relief food down Venezuela-way today? Yes!, their freaking army is "guarding" it. Military kids going to go without food, medicine, creature comforts?! I don't think so!!!

Whoever owns the guns, makes the rules. Human Nature 101. History bears this out one thousand times over. "Might makes right."

There will be few shipments of fuel. Without fuel you are driving nowhere. Have gas cans if you plan on bugging out. Better be psychic on when to fill them ... OR have fuel preservative.

Urbanites will hit-up suburbanites first, then what's left of them will go out deeper, i.e. hundreds of miles.

I've plotted-out sideroads to take should I head back to my home state. Grandma is going to make me take her to a grandkid living in my home state. Grandma has all manner of skills. I've put heavy casters on ammo crates to take heavy supplies en masse. I'll have young men driving vehicles with my home state's license plates to meet us midway. I've kept some out-of-date plates, also. I'll be re-supplying generations younger than me. Reunion time. If I don't make it, so what. Mission accomplished. Keeping the younger generations afloat, that's my goal.

The bad boys will steal the fuel they need. They'll be using picks to knock holes in fuel tanks. They'll be some monsters predating out of the cities, however they are too stupid and unorganized to pull off something militaresque. Most will get their clock cleaned ... permanently so. They'll do damage before they go ambient, so be prepared to throw lead, lots of it, rapidly so, and for several minutes ... you and your friends. One doesn't fight tuberculosis a little bit. One doesn't fight cancer a little bit. One goes death machine against death machines.

I don't give a hoot where you go, there's gonna be demons. You have to kill them. My great-grandfathers' generation had to shoot bad people. So too with one of my grandfathers. My dad's generation, a whole lot of killing went down. I've had to go with a gun on more than one "adventure". So it goes. Human nature 101.

 

Obviously we here in the States do not get sufficient / unbiased news from the U.K.. I've known several folk over the decades who'd moved here from the U.K. -- still doesn't clue me in on how things are going. South Africa is struggling and will go down the tubes with violence horrific in nature and scope. The United Kingdom's cities are in a state of -- no offence -- pathos. It seems to us Yanks that the "men" of British cities also turned in their 'nads when they gave up their guns.

These foreign gangs in your cities act with utter impunity. They rape your little girls, they run drugs and guns for sh##s'n'grins, and if they get angry, they cut and stab anyone in their way. Seems the British Bobbies soil their nappies when asked to go up against the Moon and Star clans.

Hopefully out in your boonies, the real men of England will arm up (legally or illegally) and form resistance groups. A looting mob is, let's face it, a target-rich environment. And the cops are usually in retreat mode, so maybe they won't nail the civilized folk dealing with the savage mobs.

 

TMT there is a side of me that says leave them where they lay, and maybe the next guy won't try anything. Kind of the Vlad Dracul approach.

I am also hoping against hope that people are like water. They will flow through the point of least resistance. If they know there is trouble in an area they will avoid that area and go another way. Even the criminal element isn't looking for a fight. They are looking for an easy mark.

 

I could loan you a few hungry Grizzly Bears. What they don't eat they bury for later.

 

The survival group that joins me , have on their property what we call the bottomless hole . It's a creepy mossy hole that for as I know , no one has ever found the bottom .Maybe they will let me use it for my body disposal problem . Actually there is a likely chance there are a few bodies down there . People disappear around here never to be found fairly regularly. I was told about an hour ago the locals are leaving their porch lights on tonight , in regard to a missing woman .

 

That is spooky. Not so sure I would want to live in that area.

 

We have bears and gators to handle carcass disposal.
The buzzards quickly clean up anything they leave.

 

Most will sit around waiting for someone to bring them aid.
Those who venture out will start at the first places they come to, like "trick or treaters"

 

FEMA

 

thats not where i will go, but its where most will

 

But that is how they will get people in there at 1st
head to your local walmart/fema for food water and shelter

 

How can anyone consider themselves a prepper , if their plan is to open a can of food , sit back and wait for FEMA to save them . I can only conclude some folks idea of a disaster is a lot different than mine .

 

i wont be going to FEMA, i was saying thats where most will go.