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Fair. You're lucky. I'm literally on the other side trying to figure out what the hell I'm gonna do.
I don't know a lot about your situation so cannot really make recommendations, but there's a pretty good chance you could still prepare for most incidents, be it armed conflict or otherwise. If nothing else, this should give you some peace of mind.
If you haven't already done so, stock up on the essentials - water (and one of those water filters or purifying tablets), food with a long shelf life (Huel or similar will keep you fed & healthy pretty much indefinitely) and some snacks. Buy a portable radio, a good flashlight and a powerbank with a crank or solar cells - don't bother with a generator. Assemble your personal first-aid kit with different kinds of painkillers and antibiotics. Get some soap bars, a toothbrush, some duct tape, a paper map of the area, a reliable multi-tool (Leatherman or Victorinox), some windproof matches, some pens and paper and a couple of travel-size tabletop games. Don't forget paper copies of all important documents.
Put all this plus clothes for three days in a backpack (don't forget a rain poncho) and you've got yourself a great tool that you can use to hide at home or if you need to leave in a hurry, e.g. because of a fire.
Keep some cash at home and/or on you at all times. Small bills are better in case there's no change available.
If you really need to leave the country or area during a large-scale incident, have you considered a lightweight motorbike that has good fuel economy, can be manoeuvered/carried around most obstacles and can still go pretty fast?
Also, keep in mind that the biggest challenge/threat in most emergencies is not the situation itself, but the people around you acting irrationally. Remember how Covid had people physically fight each other over 200 rolls of toilet paper.
If I may ask - where are you from (roughly), and do things really look that bad there?
I'm in Florida, and things here are relatively peaceful compared to the rest of the country despite our shitty governor. But I worry next year that will change, especially right before and after the election. As you know, we are on the brink of civil war because of Trump and his stupid fucking cult, and political violence has been ramping up. A store owner was shot for flying a pride flag in front of her shop this morning, for example. So it's clear a shitstorm is brewing here that needs to be prepared for. I made this thread to get ideas and to find out what other people were doing, in the States and out for their various political situations.
EDIT: Oh F, I thought I was responding to the Swiss fellow. My bad. Fixed
Aww, shit. I'm sorry man. Hang on, it's bound to get better eventually.
Thanks. ๐ Though I sometimes wish less of those movies were about secret Nazi gold bank accounts. Oh well, can't have everything.
We've actually been to Florida in February, from Miami to Key West and back north all the way to Tampa. Lots of lovely places. Stuff was surprisingly expensive. People were mostly friendly and welcoming, though we generally avoided talking politics. We rented a "mid-size" SUV that was about twice as big as what's considered a big car here. Driving it felt kinda badass, though I was happy to have my very manageable Volvo V60 back after two weeks.
Back on topic: wouldn't the National Guard stop a domestic armed conflict? I mean, it still wouldn't be ideal, but all you had to do is hole up and lie low for a week or two.
The problem is that the military, including the National Guard, is stacked with right-wingers, so more accurately it would be those right-wing vets using army equipment to go door to door and shoot any LGBTQ+ or Black person they could find. And Hispanic, given how deeply anti-immigration they are. They already run 13 concentration camps all over the southern border. There's one here in Florida, out by the Everglades.
Which is why I worry so much about this. So many people dismiss it as a problem because they either don't know or deny the reality of the situation, and even I really don't want to believe it. Yet it's unfolding.
That being said, Florida is arguably one of the "safer" places to be in as we've been largely insulated from the political unrest that's transpired over the past few years, especially because of covid and the BLM uprising. That's largely DeSantis's doing because he was the first Republican to say no to the lockdowns, and that's what helped him rise to power. This shit going on the past year is a perfect example of the leopards eating the left's faces what with DeSantis campaigning to run for president... though thankfully, it's looking like his campaign isn't doing well. What a fucking fascist dumbass. He's such a fucking embarrassment. ๐คฆ
I also don't want to think about what kind of a fascist shithole my city would turn into if the National Guard did forcibly lock it down to prevent a civil war. I'd take the civil war over the tyranny, honestly. At least with the civil war, you'd sort of have freedom of movement. The National Guard taking over would be the lockdowns all over again, which goes completely against the values of our state.
๐ค Given that... I suppose I actually should figure out some way to sneak out of the city under cover of darkness, or something. To get away from that. Has anyone here considered a way to do such a thing?