I appreciate this forum and look forward to hearing from readers who have thoughts about human behavior in stressful situations, and anyone's post-event plans to deal with it.

After watching the human chaos that occurs after catastrophic events (whether it be manmade of natural), and realizing that the US Government has angered a dangerous splinter-culture of martyrs who will retaliate in our homeland someday, I decided to become more aware of emergency preparedness planning. This is not about equipment, but about human behavior, actions and reactions, strategies for specific scenarios.

Has anyone in the forum who lives in a large US city, or is downwind from a city or in other high risk regions, thought through potential disaster scenarios and made specific plans and strategies to deal with it? Assuming you are prepared with equipment, and have no choice but to bug-out, what is your plan? How will you move? Act? Be non threatening, yet prepared? Deal with traffic jams. Looting? Chaos?

IMHO, this is an interesting, intimidating and necessary topic of discussion. I believe situational awareness is as important as knowing the survival tools most of us have on hand.

Dale