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> I make mental notes of who has giant amateur radio antennas on their houses, always good people to know.
Those are probably not the hams you want to know or depend on if the SHTF. In general, they're the ones into it for the sporting aspect, "chasing paper" as they say, trying to get confirmed contacts with as many stations around the World, or trying to get the biggest score in a ham radio contest.
The kind of ham you want to know is the guy like me: The one with effective, but nigh-on-invisible antennas at his home. If you were to drive by my house, you wouldn't see my antennas even though I have 4 of them. In fact, you wouldn't know I was a ham unless you saw my car in the driveway.
You want the kind of ham like me, who practices setting up his emergency set-up in the park occasionally:
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8emyj7/finally_managed_to_deploy_my_as2259gr_copy_and
You want to know the kind of guy who keeps a QRP radio and antennas in his "bug out bag".
You want to know someone who has a copy of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Low-Profile-Amateur-Radio-Operating/dp/0872599744
Chances are, the guy with the big 100' tower with a bunch of Yagis on it isn't the sort of person who is going to have the ability, or knowledge, to effectively communicate in an emergency.