It looks like anger and force are generally targeted at governments and stores, not individuals. Violence was typically around stores and in the streets; staying home and out of the way was often much safer. I do think keeping food in your house instead of an easily-robbed shed is good, though.
presumably people would not think to attack the random storage unit place though? like usually those are filled with random shit like furniture that’s useless in a famine. presumably very few people are putting food in their storage units. and the units are usually individually locked with pretty strong padlocks and made of pretty solid steel sheets, so a prospective robber would have to bring an angle grinder in and spend days slowly working their way through all of the units.
I guess the bigger concern is it might be hard to get safely from your apartment to the storage unit and back, if there’s violence in the streets?
This is a place where we can look at how things have gone in real situations, and not try reasoning through from first principles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_riot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–2008_world_food_price_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela
It looks like anger and force are generally targeted at governments and stores, not individuals. Violence was typically around stores and in the streets; staying home and out of the way was often much safer. I do think keeping food in your house instead of an easily-robbed shed is good, though.
presumably people would not think to attack the random storage unit place though? like usually those are filled with random shit like furniture that’s useless in a famine. presumably very few people are putting food in their storage units. and the units are usually individually locked with pretty strong padlocks and made of pretty solid steel sheets, so a prospective robber would have to bring an angle grinder in and spend days slowly working their way through all of the units.
I guess the bigger concern is it might be hard to get safely from your apartment to the storage unit and back, if there’s violence in the streets?
Expanded this into a post: Your Supplies Probably Won’t Be Stolen in a Disaster