When the Lights Go Out

Okay, realistically, I didn't have a plan.  [Please read the post below.]  But I have since consulted with the people who were sitting at my dining room table and now the plan goes like this:

First Tier Plan (to be completed as soon as the electrical outage that will end life as we know it begins)

• Consolidate all of our cash.  
• Send three guys to get guns, which they will pay for (the Ninja's truck can be started without the battery working because it is old and don't ask me how that works)
• Get one very large gun to mount on the semi in the third step
• Get a bunch of rifles
• Get a bunch of ammo
• The ninja will retrieve a semi truck from his place of employment.  It will have two 26 foot containers on the back.  The first container will be a diesel container (also from this place)
• The guys with the guns in the truck will now go to distribution center for Costco or WallMart or where ever and load the back container with pallets of water.  
• Find a defensible position to use as a base and park the truck

Second Tier Plan (to be started as soon as the 1st tier is completed)

• Send groups of raiders out for:
• Propane tanks
• Food
• Medications (antibiotics, heart meds, etc.)
• Building supplies
• Add armor to whatever vehicles are in the fleet at this point.

The first priority in a major disaster is to survive.  We'd have to see how it played out.  Would the government be able to survive if a solar flare took out power to half the continent?  I don't know.  I think the keys to any good survival plan are organization and flexibility.