If you are concerned about the future and want to do something about those gnawing fears, this is the place to come for a sense of community, commonsense ideas, and critical information. Stay tuned, and find out what you can do to about the dangers facing you and your family in the coming days.

If you are here now, you know that times are tough. The world economy is collapsing. Greed and short-sightedness have caused a global calamity. Food riots are expected in Russia and China, and this while food supplies are at an all time low in the U.S. In fact, most Americans have only three days of food in their home, and do not realize that retail grocers carry only three days of food in their supply chains. That is why the slightest interruptions cause people to panic and resort to looting in a matter of days.

This problem has been brought on by many changes in our economy and lifestyle over the last fifty years. If you live in rural America, you may notice a number of dilapidated barns on the roadsides composed of graying weathered boards and rusting tin. They once held the harvests and livestock of our grandparents, but now, they hold nothing. Our pantries, unlike those of our grandparents, are almost bare. We mostly shop weekly now, and in large cities, folks shop every day for food. Most Americans don't have the tools, the time, or the knowledge to can food, even if they have a backyard garden. We are now totally dependent on modern services to provide us with our most essential needs -- food and water.

That food is carried to us by gas guzzling trucks; approximately 75% of all petroleum used on the roads today is burned by the big rigs. Far from what you hear about SUVs, the truckers burn most of the oil we are so dependent on. If those trucks can't deliver, we get no food. As long as the system works, everything is fine. But within days of a stoppage, madness will break out. We saw this during Hurricane Katrina, where the lack of food and electricity caused widespread looting in New Orleans. If you live in a large city, this is the future you face.

In rural America, things are only slightly better. The smaller population will reduce the competition for resources per square mile, but unless you and the good people around have "put up" for an emergency, you will be standing in line at Wal-Mart like everyone else. How many days of food have you stored? Can you honestly look in your cabinets and expect your family to live more than a couple of days off cereal, bread, and canned goods.

Which brings me to my next point. Could you prepare the food you have without electricity? Can you boil water, warm a can of soup, or microwave those chicken fingers without power? This likely reduces the amount of food you can easily prepare to even less than is actually available. Your freezer food will spoil, and the macaroni and cheese is inedible without boiled water.

These facts alone should make you sit back and think long and hard about the predicament we are all in. We have worked hard to "provide for our families." But have we really done that? We have consumed, yes, but have we put back and prepared for adversity? As many are now discovering, the 401Ks and savings accounts are running dry. The credit is being cut. And the family still needs to eat.

Even if you have plenty of money, imagine that it is only a short chain of events before you are in dire straits. A $500K house is no safe haven if the home is short on food, has no electricity, and a thug with a knife can kick his way in 15 seconds. Could a snow storm reduce you to starvation in two weeks? Three? What would you do for water if the city water pipes stopped flowing? A number of ill-prepared folks in Kentucky recently required food and water deliveries from the National Guard just to survive.