07-08-2014, 04:41 PM
Depends on your disaster scenario. Virus wipes out 80% of the population = lots of ammo lying around. Food shortage leads to massive starvation and riots = lots of ammo probably getting used.
Incidentally, my favorite disaster is still "massive solar flare". I don't think there's data on how often they occur. The last REALLY big one was in the mid 1800s I think, when all it really did was put out nearly global auroras and mess with the telegraph. Something like that today would probably explode the entire global power system and would take years to fix. Short term I can just imagine what an immediate global loss of refrigeration would do to the total food supply. As Vllad has suggested before, all it really takes to make the SHTF is a few days of no food.
(I wonder how long it would take to replace "every transformer in America", or even the most important 10%.)
Incidentally, my favorite disaster is still "massive solar flare". I don't think there's data on how often they occur. The last REALLY big one was in the mid 1800s I think, when all it really did was put out nearly global auroras and mess with the telegraph. Something like that today would probably explode the entire global power system and would take years to fix. Short term I can just imagine what an immediate global loss of refrigeration would do to the total food supply. As Vllad has suggested before, all it really takes to make the SHTF is a few days of no food.
(I wonder how long it would take to replace "every transformer in America", or even the most important 10%.)