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RE: When the electricity goes out, even for a few hours, people get stupid really quick. Most ppl won't even read this and they should!
We have the power go out here quite often due to storms. I actually haven't experienced any of the chaos that you described, but most of the time I have just stayed home. It has me worried now what I would run into if I stepped outside for a bit :)
The biggest issue that we always have is our refrigerator/food. Usually the power comes back on within 12 hours, but if it lasts much longer than that - the food goes bad and you have to throw things out. In my mom's neighborhood one time, their power was out for 4 days after a storm!
The problem, and it is a problem, is we look at ourselves individually during these crisis. Which is normally correct in the greater sense of things. Look out for yourself, and your family first.
However, that becomes hard to do, when the rest of the city and country is falling into turmoil. It's only a matter of time.. (we're not talking a 4 hour blackout. But consider a 4 month blackout), where even those that had the inclination of protecting themselves fall victim to people knocking (ok BANGING) on your door for help.
A Zombie apocolypse is a creation in theatre. Even normal people in need who failed to protect themselves become mean, angry, and downright vicious if you have something they don't.
All of this is related to constant electricity. Without electricity, most of us become savages. Not today, not tomorrow. But it could be next week, next month, or next year. Scary that it could happen in our lifetime.
Indeed; it's a scary thought!
One thing I've heard (totally unrelated to the electricity part), is that next to food and water - they say that fruit and vegetable seeds are the best thing to stock pile in case of an apocalypse level event. After the initial few weeks of craziness, people will be looking to form colonies and attempt to rebuild some form of a 'normal' life. Seed packets would be extremely useful once things got to that phase, and they are very easy to transport (light weight). They could be used to trade for other things that you need, and it would be easy to trade for a lot of things - because you can easily keep a lot of seeds :)
That's a warm fuzzy, that has little practicality to it. When people are starving, they will either steal the seedling or pick every tomato that grows before you get to it. Some people will eat the tomato plant itself.
There is a 99 year old woman that died in the last 3 years named Clara that did recipe demonstrations on youtube. She talked about living through the great depression. Her neighbors, who she had great repoire with, were scavenging her garden one day. It was a sad day for both her, and her neighbor, who only did what they felt they needed to do.
If you're interested in checking out some of her videos, try this link.
tl;dr you won't be able to grow a vegetable garden with seeds without someone stealing the seeds, the plant, or the fruit it bears when people are starving.
The seeds would only become useful if one managed to get past the survival 'every person for themselves' stage, and to the point where some level of civility returned, and a barter/trade system began to form. You are right though - as long as people are still stealing and killing to survive, then seeds will do no good :)