I think the grid will be the first thing to go down. From there...who knows?

my friend was stationed on the nuclear sub fleet for uk for 10 yrs i ws amazed to find out that once they had launched there was no plan in place as to what to do next he said every sub had the same plan head for the west indies and try and find a non devastated island and have a party till starvation or suicide took them all

The poll should have a "both" option.

I have been fending for myself since quite young and have lived rough a few times, well more than a few maybe. The areas I live even now are prone to fires and floods, we are often cut off for anything up to a few weeks and more commonly get stranded when traveling. 6-8 weeks without access to shops and such would cause no difficulties. We keep a very low profile, decent survival gardens and come the zombie apocalypse, we will be the ones with soft serve ice cream. I expect human society will not survive much longer, probably not in my time, but maybe in a generation, 2 at the outside. I expect a slide not a sudden collapse. All sorts of rationing, refugees, that sort of thing.

Eh as far as actual items go I havent done a whole lot. Survival bag with all the little essentials. Who knows what could happen. Mass scale EMP though would be catastrophic. Hurricanes aren't rare for south Texas either. Fuel shortage, nuclear/biological war. Just so many things