Preppers’ PING!!
This is why those who complain the preppers over do it by having more than just a few days of preps are wrong! Often disasters are often followed by troubles a Hurricane can past and then a few days later a levee fails. You make it through a earthquake and then a few days later a major bridge collapse cutting off help and supplies.
I've had to go for more than a week without power several times, in the dead of winter with LOTS of snow on the ground, completely housebound for most of that time. No way to get out for supplies. Made it through easily.
In my view situations like that are something everyone should be able to handle as a matter of course. If you can't handle at LEAST that much, then you really need to get with it!
It's going to happen again. We don't know what the specific event will be, or when. But we can handle being on our own for a lot more than a week, and we will come through it just fine.
Serious prepping is about more than that. Most people who consider themselves preppers are getting ready for a major SHTF event.
Some laugh at ignorant rubes like me who are obviously too simple to realize that nothing really bad can happen anymore. Some even hate us. In my view, many of the haters are angry because they sense something is coming too. But they have chosen to do nothing and do not wish to be reminded of it.
Time will tell. If I wasted a few bucks, so what. No one was hurt. But if TSHF it was money well spent.