shtf what is your definition

[cbseniour]

I'd really like to know exactly what in your own mind is the SHTF moment. Is it natural disaster, Anarchy due to the imminent fall of the US government, the Muslim threat , Your mother in law coming to visit, all of the above. Or some other reason of your own.

I'm not questioning the need to be prepared just looking for your input and thoughts on the matter.

 

[Destro]

Katrina...

 

[gunsrfun]

Anything that disrupts your normal way of live for more than 72 hours. Storms, terrorist attacks, government meltdown, zombies.

 

[clt46910]

I look at more local stuff. Like a big storm taking out power and travel restrictions for a long period of time.

It could be something as simple as losing your job and not being to find another one, or being in some type of acccident that seriously reduces or cuts out any income.

I worked construction and many times I was thankful I did not have to worry about food and had money back to meet the bills for a couple months. I always hated dealing with unemployment so I always made sure I had enough back I did not have to deal with them.

I figure if I can keep myself set up to survive those kind of things, I will be Ok with larger events.

 

[youngda9]

Anything that makes me clear leather or disrupt my normal daily actions to scrounge for or attempt to preserve basic necessities to sustain my or my loved one's lives.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I define SHTF as pretty much anything that significantly and negatively disrupts daily routine. It's a wide range of topics with no hard and fast answer. I define The End Of The World As We Know It as anything that affects a nation or nations and will not return to normality within the lifetimes of those affected.


SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
3 Divorce
6 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
9 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
8 Family deaths
10 children born
3 significant flooding events
3 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
3 terminal illness in family diagnosis.
2 household problems with freezing weather.
Note there have been no zombie apocalypse or major social collapse in that time, but each of these I grant you that these are just little figures I've been noting as I see them, and I may have missed a few. I don't think I missed a ZA or major social collapse. Each one of those little SHTF or other events were life changing events for the folks involved.

Just something to think about when you prep.

 

[BlueEagle]

Yeah, basically anything that makes me change my daily routine and has a negative impact on my life, (and probably the lives of those around me,) for a significant time.

Like a zombie apocalypse. That'll disrupt my daily routine a bit.

 

[j706]

Heck my worst SHTF scenario is momma coming home from work all pissed off! That happens about every other day so I am a pro after 26 years with her.

 

[Sgt7330]

Running out of toilet paper in the summer when the air conditioner is broke.

 

[BlueEagle]

+1 to Sgt7330.

 

[ViperJock]

I think we should develop a SHTF ranking system. It could go something like this;
SHTF 1; zombie invasion
SHTF 2; widespread economic disaster
SHTF 3; Fall of the house to the Dems
SHTF 4; A local gun store closes
SHTF 5; Appendicitis

Thoughts?

 

[cbseniour]

My apoligies to all I think I just posted this thread again. OoPs

 

[cbseniour]

To Viper Jock.
I've had the apendicitis, Gun stores open and close all the tiime and we're in a widespread economic disaster but the other two scare me to death.

Thanks

 

[bglaze]

Obama

 

[shooter521]

Shouldn't this be in Survival and Disaster Preparedness, in the thread of the same name?

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...9-what_is_your_definition_of_shtf_moment.html

 

[TRWXXA]

Obama

Plus, when you've got you've got Eric "I Can't Even Say "Muslim Extremism'" Holder, Janet Incompetano, and Timothy "Turbo Tax" Geithner helping him ruin... I mean, "run" things, then the S has REALLY hit the F!!!

 

[ViperJock]

To Viper Jock.
I've had the apendicitis, Gun stores open and close all the tiime and we're in a widespread economic disaster but the other two scare me to death.

Thanks

Thats my point. In order of scariness they get a rank. Plus I mean inflation in the 3-4 digit % and you can't buy food kind of economic disaster. While we may only be a push away from that, we aren't there yet.

 

[youngda9]

SHTF on INGO I've noticed since June 2010:
2 Emergency surgery
3 Divorce
6 Serious car accidents no serious injury but car totaled
2 Serious car accidents- injury requiring hospital
1 Serious at fault car crash, 5 serious injuries, inadequate insurance
9 Lost jobs/no new job ready to go
8 Family deaths
10 children born
3 significant flooding events
3 computer crashes with total loss of data/no backup
1 major house fire-displaced occupants months later
3 terminal illness in family diagnosis.
2 household problems with freezing weather.

I seriously hope that you made those numbers up and aren't actually tracking that stuff (sometime internet sarcasm is lost on my, I'll admit it)

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Heck my worst SHTF scenario is momma coming home from work all pissed off! That happens about every other day so I am a pro after 26 years with her.

I would rep you for this if I could, not sure if it would be positive or negative though. I get that pretty much daily. You deserve positive rep for bringing it up, negative rep for getting it less than me.

 

[alluwant]

When my day gets interrupted more than once