[oh8eleven]

There will be a situation (weather, fire, earthquake) where you wished you had put up somethings.
If you read my post carefully you might have noticed I acknowledged, "Being prepared for an emergency (flood, no power, blizzard, etc.) is one thing ..."
And if you looked at my screen name, my tag line and/or home page carefully, you might have also noticed I know all about survival.
Semper Fi ...

[driftdiver]

Why would we carefully read the screen name, tag line, and home page of a very rude poster?

Sure some preppers take it too far. Thats true of many things.

IMO considering whats happening in the world I think its crazy to not be prepared. Ironic that we have the military and many for relatively rare events.

[Shadowstrike]

Actually, I did read all those, and very carefully.

But, it was very hard to ignore the “disdain” in your post.

By your own words, ie “scaring their families...” I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and assume that you don't condone watching the news, it might scare your family.

You don't condone using seat belts, the thought of a wreck might scare someone...

See where I'm going with this?

The television preppers, are in my opinion, merely that television. Teaching your family the things necessary for survival in a volatile world, teaching them to “prepare” isn't scaring them, in fact...it might actually save their life.

Consider that, before you jump into the deep end next time.