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You know, I keep reading about people going all Survivor Man and disaster-preparedness and all that... but I really have a hard time imagining how such a scenario could come about. I mean, individually, the worst that can happen is a layoff followed by eviction, and you end up homeless. Granted, being homeless certainly sucks, but you still have restaurants, the YMCA, the public library--i.e., places you can go to get heat and running water for a few hours, places you can buy a snack with a couple bucks. It's far from post-apocalyptic. Even if shocking numbers of people are homeless, if the streets become dangerous as more are willing to attack strangers and break into homes for food and supplies, where is the step that leads to the general loss of running water or electricity? At what point is food unavailable, as opposed to just unaffordable for individuals with no money? About the only way I can see it happening is if the flow of oil just stops dead, and we simply can't transport the food from the farms to the houses anymore... but is that really what people are thinking is going to happen?
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