And I can think of so many people who really could use it.
I live in an area prone to n'oreasters, flooding, assorted other weather related events and the associated power outages. It never ceases to amaze me how many people just have NO CLUE how to prepar for such eventualities. Of course these are the same kind of people that move out of cities because they like the "quaint" life in a rural area and then proceed to demand the services they left behind in the city.
I left the city to get away from that stuff, I don't want to bring it here and ruin the "quaintness" of rural living.
I’m lucky in a way because my whole life my greatest hobby has simply been taking things apart and putting them back together.
When I was about 11, I took a Timex clock apart. Labelled all the parts, and put it back together.
It Worked!
Didn’t work good, but it worked!
So I always considered myself pretty self sufficient. And you’re right. Many, if not most, don’t have a clue.
I’m stocked up enough to make it for quite a while. But I’m way, way too close to the Seattle-Tacoma-Portland metro district to be able to last long term here.
If I was forty miles east, I’d be in much better shape.