I’ve read that a lot. In other survival situations, it seems the people that make it vs those that don’t can’t be determined ahead of time.<<<
To my way of thinking, those of us, who have read the books and listened to the old timers talk about the old days, are aware that folks do survive anything that can happen to us.
So many folks, male and female have no idea of the real world and that my world even exists.
A good test for people, is to take them out in the desert for dry camping, all you need to do is go far enough to cook a hot dog.
I have had them show up in black slacks and white shirts, with shiny shoes............or there is the other who is raring to go and bring his guns.
So we had two rules for our prospecting trips, no booze and no guns.
Sure got us out of taking a lot of greenhorns into the desert.
Disasters are like changing a full diaper, you don’t want to deal with it, but you will and you will survive, LOL, to do it again.
Hang in there, you will be ok in a disaster, you can process food and cook, you know how to twist a recipe and how to grow food, the only other thing, is your goat, you must learn to milk.
There are still range cows, deer, and even horses give milk.
LOL, my favorite part of the Pendelton Roundup/rodeo, was watching the cowboys, attempt to milk a wild range cow, directly into a coke bottle.