The key passage for us preppers:
Quote:

"Get more involved in neighborhood events," Aldrich said. "If there is a planning club, a homeowners association — if there are sports clubs nearby, PTAs — those groups have us in contact with people we wouldn't normally meet and help us build up these stocks of trust and reciprocity."

"Really, at the end of the day, the people who will save you, and the people who will help you," he added, "they're usually neighbors."


I thought about piping up in an earlier thread about this issue of working together. It seems that so many people are willing to jump straight to the Mad Max scenario and "rely on their 9 mm" to survive the disaster. We have a lot of lone cowboys here, but my guess is that collaboration will get us all farther. The Japanese orderliness in their recent massive disaster should be a lesson to us all.

The article notes that it's not really in our culture to be so group-oriented. Be that as it may, how can we build some sort of local community for emergencies? I recall that Blast talked about creating some sort of network with his left over Mac. Other ideas?

Da Bing