Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Hmmmm…whats the big threat assessment these days? A few of us LMI’s are still favoring the terrorist-act-leading-to-martial-law scenario. Im still leaning towards a crawling Depression that leads us into a Russian-style of life of lines for toilet paper, rolling brownouts and corruption. Although, honestly, the Chinese/Korean nuclear situation is gaining ground……

Naturally, if youre prepared for the worst case scenario (say, a nukefest, for example) youre automatically prepared for the lesser events (hurrican eor blizzard). So, Im not worried. However, now that Im pretty secure in my basic, primary needs theres an urge to expand….I need some redundancies, more off-site caching, and, ideally, my own personal little hidey-hole in the middle of nowhere. Its that last one that is going to be the masterstroke of my life as Commander Zero.

Its the typical survivalist fantasy: the voice on the radio says the bombs will hit in thirtyseven minutes. You grab your gear, hop in the truck and take you pre-planned route to your hidden, well-stocked, easily-defended and quite safe retreat. Ah, the stuff dreams are made of. Fortunately, Im not exactly living on a high-priority target area like, oh, say, the folks in NY or LA….but even in a town of 75,000 people things can still get ugly in a hurry.

Y’know, a nice, quiet, twenty acres or so at the end of a long dirt road would be nice.