Now YOU’RE the one worrying too much, Breeze! Are you expecting a nuclear holocaust or an eruption from a supervolcano? Because short of that, I just don’t see how I wouldn’t be able to return home from any trip I take.
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You’ve said in previous posts that the “trucks are going to stop running.” So when armageddon hits, the trucks are going to stop running but air travel will be unaffected? Why would that be?
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I could see some brief disruption that would require me to stay put for a few days, or a sudden hike in air fare, but that’s about it.
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You know you can only live a few days without water right? Are you sure you’ll be able to get back to your water supply and your ham radio in time to survive?
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And since I have enough money in various places, neither of those two scenarios concern me much.
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Are you talking about fiat money? I thought all fiat money was going to collapse and be worth nothing.
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Why don’t you spin a few of your Armageddon scenarios for me that you leave me stranded outside out of the U.S. permanently?
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You only need to be stranded for a short while without your water supplies to end up dead. Surely you don’t expect the trucks to stop running and water to run out only in the states?
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Are you serious? I really wonder whether you have been paying more attention to Obama than to the the economy over the past 18 months.
We didn’t crash to Dow 6,800 over night, did we? We didn’t go from 50,000 monthly job losses to 600,000 job losses overnight, did we? We didn’t go from a “strong economy” to an economy in “crisis” overnight, did we? Breeze, none of this is going to happen instantaneously over a weekend. This isn’t a TV show; it’s real life. It sounds as if you are expecting the Marvel comics version of systemic collapse. LOL.
As I detailed in my other post, there will be sign posts and indicia of a systemic collapse. The collapse is, in fact, already beginning — if you hadn’t noticed — and it is intensifying. As it builds, life for most of us moves forward in a more or less, quasi-comfortable state. we notice small changes, but nothing truly major. But that will change — not in a week, Breeze — but over weeks and months. Winter will “feel” different and not as “harsh” as spring will. And summer will be hell.
Now, you ask how I expect to accomplish the miracle of not being stranded outside when the collapse intensifies to the point that travel is dislocated?
Well, I only travel outside of the U.S. once every few years, Breeze. Just went to Paris, so I think I’m good for a while. And I vacation twice a year a year. And I assure you that if and when the indicia of collapse begin to intensify to the point that I think travel is even remotely jeopardized, I’m staying my a** at home. I’m not even leaving the state. You might be courageous enough to chance a trip to Mazatlan if the Dow is hanging at 55 on the USD index and we’re hitting 1 million job losses a month, but I wouldn’t go anywhere near the airport.
So when a severe disruption occurs, I will likely be in state. I’ve got enough food and water for a week in my car (Jetta and handles it quite nicely), plus loads of emergency equipment and a weapon or two.
So yeah. I think I can handle it.
BTW, when you wrote this post did you think I was relocating out of the country or what? Because I just don’t get why you think the average person spends so much of their time abroad that their chances of being stranded in the event of a collapse are even worth considering…
