Glad author’s subdivision is encouraging some preparedness. Hard to estimate what people are doing privately, but I have house-sat for a couple neighbors...they are not prepared from what I saw when I went in pantry for pet food.
Key is getting everybody prepared on some level for an emergency—could be power outage, flood, tornado, quake or EMP...
Sadly, people in my area are very complacent and ill prepared...We practically never have outages, floods, tornadoes, or quakes, so people don’t prepare...
Last spring we actually had a 3-hour outage, and my neighbor did not even know where a flashlight was...
Likewise. We had a water outage (turned out to be 3 hours) last spring. Everybody was in a panic. E-mails circulated like crazy. One person asked “How would they take baths to go to work or school?”.
I thought I’d be helpful (silly me) and suggest that everybody have water on hand for emergencies. Not one person responded. So when SHTF, they’re on their own. Sadly, so will I. Will need to get some barbed wirefigure out how to protect my two gardens.