We (bride and I but also including our local working group) have identified the areas in which we need to be strengthened and have put those in front of the priority list, having found the round tuits I always seem to be unable to find. Ours in particular was outside-the-group comms and going ahead with Sam Culper's Area Study for developing actionable intelligence. Continually honing the skills and sharing with others as they want to learn (example was recent rabbit harvesting and canning seminar which also gave me some good help while practicing their own skills at butchering rabbits!
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And every time we go to the store, I've just gotten in the habit of grabbing 50 lb of rice, beans, corn meal, wheat, TP, whatever. There's a local Mennonite-owned chain of stores here which always has lots of bulk food in stock. Which has put me behind on vacuum packing but I'll get caught up on rainy days, if we ever have any soon!
For some reason a lot of peanut butter always ends up getting loaded up into the truck, I dunno how that happens....
The rest of this post, though, is a bit off the subject at hand but still noteworthy, I judged:
This week Selco made an interesting point about WROL (Without Rule of Law) after whatever society-ending event or combination of events happen. This is often discussed as the worst-case scenario, etc. etc. with doomer fiction porn loaded up with many stories of complete chaos and no responsible adult supervision, so to speak, with tyranny having failed and so on.
His experience has shown him that there isn't any such thing as WROL in actuality. What happens is something he describes as DROL (Different Rule of Law IIRC) because power abhors a vacuum. SOMEONE or some group is going to take the reins of power in any given locale if governing authorities become unable to maintain order. And this isn't even considering the impact of Continuity of Government plans drawn up by essentially every governing authority from the feds down to the counties and cities levels.