If one depends on electricity alone for heat and trucks alone for what you will be eating in two months from now .. are you prepared?

Can you cook with wood and natural gas if a storm etc. knocks you off the grid. How many hundred pounds of beans, potatoes, corn meal, flour and the salt, cooking oil, chilies, cumin, yeast and baking powder do you have on hand?

When E.R., Doctors and Life Flight have not existed for a spell .. will your Echinacea and Yarrow (stops swine flue, colds, congestion), Mullein (weed - worlds finest decongestant - green tea 20 min soak), Capsicum (blocks heart attacks and stroke) .. stores .. be a blessing to you and your neighbors?

Do you know how to build a clay brick .. wood fired .. baking oven for you and the hood? Get it to 500 degrees and cook several loads of eight loaves at a time and then cook stews after it cools of a bit.

With food grade 55 gal. drums at $18 .. how many do you have full of water? One drop of chlorine will disinfect five gallons of water.

Will you have a shelf full of pop, chips and dip that will run out in two days?

A major war in the Near East oil fields could mean ICBMs, riots in the streets, no infrastructure outside what you have prepared for.

My friend was seven years old, just moved to Germany when WWII broke out. It isn't talked about to this day .. but the unprepared were in the streets shooting each other for a week or so and then things quieted down. Perhaps 5% of all Germans died in this panic .. thousands.