Preparing for the Onslaught of the Unprepared

Whether your plans are to bug in or to bug out of your location, there is a good chance you may have to hole up wherever your at until things cool off a bit outside. Looters, pillagers, scavengers or worse may come to your location looking for something of value. Here are a few ideas that may hold them out even if you are not prepared to make an armed stand to defend your space. The idea here is to attempt to divert them away from your home to easier pickings.
First off, use the dead horse method. If you have time before the hoards arrive, make it look as though your home has already been pillaged. Pull useless items from your home and scatter them around the front porch and yard. Dresser drawers full of clothing. The old tires stacked up in the garage. Try to make it look as though your home has already been ransacked and maybe those pillaging will pass by.
Second, choose a safe room in the house to keep supplies and hole up in it until the eminent danger passes. This will most likely begin moments after the food in the grocery stores run out and may last as long as a few weeks for the majority of the population to move further out looking for food. Your safe room would preferably be in a basement or on the highest floor of the building. Every ground floor window should be covered with a dark blanket or sheet. The idea behind this is that during the daylight, you will still be able to see out, but nobody will be able to see in. Another great precaution is to place chicken wire or even garden fencing on the inside of the windows. This will keep objects from being thrown inside and slow down any who attempt to enter through them. Cut the fencing to size and nail it to the inside of the window frame.
The final preparation is to fill all the rooms you are not using with junk. And I do mean Junk. Anything you can get your hands on both inside and outside your home. Start with in front of all the ground floor windows and doors, pile junk from floor to ceiling. The kids old swing set, the neighbors trampoline, old barrels, anything you can find to pile up and make it impossible to navigate on top of or through. Looters will be looking for a quick catch so they can move on and find more. Your obstacles will tell them that its not worth it.
It would be prudent to leave a small tunnel, just big enough to crawl through going from your safe room to an emergency exit, such as a doggy door, but leave this small enough that anyone who enters it will have to crawl headfirst through an obstacle course to get to you and your supplies.
I learned these tactics first hand from the Berlin Brigade during the Cold War. It was their job to slow an attack on West Germany from the Communist East until reinforcements could arrive. They were very good at their job. The ground floor entrance tunnels would be trapped and the upper floor windows would be used as defensive lookouts. I don't expect anyone reading this to have a platoon sized group, but if you, your spouse, and your kids work together, you may just get out of it alive and with all your supplies.