re: SHTF plans for your area?

build a capable/knowledgeable community where you live. If you're in a city you're probably NGMI. Bugging out can be a viable option but I feel like if the scenario your describe ever does happen we will fall back to feudal like systems where skills are traded like currency.

I don't think there will be an all of a sudden SHTF event but rather a slow spiral into lawlessness. I could be wrong. Each year as a civilization we produce less, are less educated, and more reliant on big bro gov.