If you're dug-in, in some sort of functioning settlement, you have to consider so many things that are needed that we overlook. Textile manufacturing and clothing construction would be great occupations for the elderly and/or infermed. It's not too physically demanding, you may not need all of your limbs to do it. What about education? It will be absolutely necessary to rebuild. A disabled person could run a classroom. When you're pondering all of these scenarios, you have to take a macro, not micro, evaluation of long-term necessity. Let's say you make it, get settled or start a settlement, think of all the things we take for granted such as textile making, food production, education, medical needs, security and so on. I haven't read anything on these posts about the importance and value of a good library. I mean, it doesn't need to be the Library of Congress, but material about crop development, medical manuals, home construction, electronics, plumbing, food gathering, soap making, cooking and drying, self defense, language and communication, and so on, would be EXTREMELY important for "digging in." Maybe I think about this way too much, and maybe I will be be president after Z-Day. Ha.

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Oh...well...I was sorrily misinformed...and by someone who should have known better. I'm not a hunter...and I don't really like shotguns. The 870 in my gun safe is registered to my wife and all she uses it for is trap now and then. So all we have in the house is trap load...which isn't much but its better than nothing at all.

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