By Bill White
No matter how much any of us stockpile, there’s a finite limit to our supplies. That means that while those supplies are intended to get us through a disaster and its aftermath, there’s a limit to how long they can do that. Before they run out, we’re either going to have to be growing our own food and producing everything we need, or we’re going to have to find it somewhere. That will be a challenge, considering that others will be scavenging for supplies long before we are.
But that doesn’t mean those people will find everything. Nor does it mean that they will look for everything we would look for. They’ll be after food and other critical supplies, but I doubt very many of them will be looking to scavenge things to build their own electric generating plant, put in a community-wide communications system, reopen the schools, or even seed for planting. Those are the types of tasks where preppers can really help their communities, being the ones to help bring some sense of normalcy back to life.
