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Bev:


> And then, when SHTF, they will want to take what we have worked long and
> hard for instead of doing for themselves.

I've though much about this, and you are right, it has been a touchy subject 
on this list at times.  We live pretty far out from even our modest sized 
cities and we are on a mountainside that is accessible only by means of a 
narrow 
hollow (our road frontage) which opens up in only three places a couple of 
miles apart.  That is, you can't sneak up on us.

But much more than that, my opinion about the ability of the average American 
to survive even a minor inconvenience (like no electricity) is far, far 
poorer than even what Bev has described.  For anybody to walk out here  they 
would 
need several days' rations.  Anybody sorry enough to want to come out here to 
steal what we have would be so sorry they'd sit on their behind and eat the 
rations before they started.  It would take a plan and some gumption to 
successfully plunder this hollow.   What would likely show up would be 
sickly, half 
starved would be plunderers who could be easily turned aside.

And what if they did make it here with enough fight left in them?  They'd 
find barrels of corn, goats on the hoof, hives of bees, potatoes and turnips 
cached in the ground, etc.  What are they going to do with it?  

It's a grim thing, but when the SHTF I rather expect people will huddle into 
the cities and expect to be fed something.  And perhaps they will, some gruel 
to eat in their sort of half-existence.