Having grown up in the Snow Belt, most of what Glen describes are part of the seasonal chores. Like changing the window screens for the storm windows in the fall and back again in the spring. Wasn't anything political about it. Just being ready to last until the county cleared the roads after a snowfall and you can get back into your daily routine.

What's different, I think is the "us vs them" mentality. Where I grew up, if a farmer was hurt or ill at harvest time, the neighbors would spend a day out of their harvest time to bring in the others crops. If there was a death in the family, glazed hams and scalloped potatoes from the neighbors would be on the doorstep the morning of the wake to feed the visitors.

I now live in the NYC area and I've seen that same "neighbor helping neighbor" attitude during any number of difficult times, from black outs and snow storms to 9/11 to Hurricane Sandy. It's part of the human make up to help each other. Like it or not, we live in a collective, we have mutual needs for each other and we come to the mutual aid of others. By instinct.

So the questions I have for those who live in fear of the breakdown in the rule of law is this. Which laws? And how much fear do you enjoy?