Greetings Charlie.

Welcome here. I would like to bend away from the inevitable and circular queries and challenges circling about the validity of your message and bonifides. May we move toward the meat of the conundrum of holding rural towns and regions in the less damaged areas viable for the inhabitants becoming capable assistants to and for refugees vs. going boots on the ground with a scramble pack?

I would appreciate your thoughts on methods we may use to positively affect the survivors beyond the catastrophe and hold together a village rather than abandon the reasonably tenable townships to the traveling needy and what resource brigands will obviously come in search of relief, albeit shallow and temporary. It seems to me that my location in the Flint Hills Tall Grass Prairie region of Kansas, as many others, is going to be one of those target areas for those wandering from catastrophe and therefore someone(s) should be planning now, if quietly. I think rather than going boots with a pack, villages such as mine are worthy of staying alive and cogent to help themselves through cataclysm and then those in need that will flock to survive. I don’t believe it will be a detention camp or nothing proposition in the end. Some wisdom from your angle?

I guess we’re looking at a logistics nightmare, but doable. Got anybody on the team that could speak to pathways to a plan to slip into the system when TSHTF aside from obvious priorities? I don’t think our local guys are prepared for this show and I'm not too excited about FEMA management either. I’ve been trying organizing things in my head for days and the enormity of the process boggles me. I got stuck on immediate tangibles deciding to immediately endow the town library with a set of the Foxfire Survival reference series as a starting point (Ten or so books with in depth pioneer basics on everything from skinning rabbits to shoeing horses) There's only so much knowledge, imbued talent and materials in any outward area. It seems knowledge and organization of resources will be paramount in the next bend of the human path. So you can see just how incredibly nitpicky the process must be to find a way to start a comeback. Please share on the process if you will. No doubt an area and it's worried folk will have to pool resources in a big way…uh oh communism. Yes, lots of issues. Will you chime in with your thoughts and experience?

Do you have any information on western Pennsylvania and Michigan (Flint area)?

Sorry, Dan, but Charlie has not posted here in quite a while.