Yesterday, I asked for input as to what you would do if family members or friends showed up at your door, asking for help after a major disaster. Several of the responses posted here and elsewhere indicate people would turn away those asking for assistance, telling them they should have prepared for themselves or citing a lack of supplies to provide for these extra people. Others said they would allow them in but put them to work to earn their keep.
How would you go about enforcing this? How do you either force them to leave or force them to work?
Would you point a gun at a family member, threatening to shoot if they don’t go away?
Would you just lock the door and potentially have to listen to them knocking and pleading for hours on end?
I’m not saying anyone is right or wrong. I’m just wondering how well thought out your plans are.
I pictured turning away wondering strangers and distant acquaintances. Unprepared family and friends is another story and far more complicated…
I would tell them to leave, if they didn’t and tried to do something then I would do what has to be done. I won’t want to do it though.
Agreed, Peter.
It is easy with strangers , unless they have a very unique or needed skill/commodity that would make your family/group safer or better equipted to deal with the disaster then they are turned away… Accepting strangers into your family/group can be dangerous , and they need to be monitored at all times , do not show them all your supplies/resorces , they may leave in the middle of the night and help themselves to your stuff….. As far as unpreppared family , I would take them in with the understanding that they got bare minimum rations but they are expected to do their share of work to earn them , everyone has skills , put them to work at what they do best !!!!!