From the front page of this site we have this definition of the focus of this site. It is authored by Doug Ritter the owner of the site and clearly defines the focus and topic of the site.

That having been said, the discussions in this forum seem to have wandered over the entire spectrum and as long as they remain close to topic, polite and reasonably a-political there hasn't been much problem with this issue before on this forum. Chris and Doug will step in if things get too far from topics that they want discussed on their site or (more commonly) if the discussion becomes uncomfortably hot.

From the above document is clear that the main focus of the site, including but not limited to this forum, is the short term scenario following accident, emergency, or other incident that temporarily removes us from the security of the our reliance on society. Rulled out are discussions of TEOTWAKI and long term social collapse. In between the 72 hour blackout and total social disintegration lies a huge grey area which may be reasonably discussed or ruled out at the discretion of the administrators. I have personally lived through blackouts which lasted longer than 72 hours and I would consider discussing preparing for them to be within the range of topics allowable in this forum (tho Chris may correct me on that at his leisure). Hurricane Andrew survivors didn't get back to life-as-usual for more than a year in some cases though the basic infrastructure was restored within a few months. Again preparing for that is much more long-term than the 72 hr kit and somewhat less than the TEOTWAKI scenarios. I (personally) think that a discussion of laying up a store of water and food for scenarios longer than 72 hrs isn't too far off topic and needn't bring in the connotations of and disscussions of socio-political collapse while discussing how to survive a night of rioting in an urban setting that you may be living in is well within the parameters of 72 hr emergency survival and to discuss that you may necessarily get into socio-political questions and discussions vis gun ownership, etc.