Nothing wrong with being a prepper, but any run of the mill sensible person and especially a homesteader or farmer, would just habitually have options to deal with stuff like this.
In fact as soon as I got married, we made sure we had alternative heat, lighting and cooking. Cash was in short supply since we barely made enough to pay the bills, but we did have piggy banks where we put our change every day.
During a sleepless night this week, I happened to run across a marathon of prepper program reruns. At the end of each episode the “experts” rated the preppers. Many were only about 50% prepared, I don’t remember any one predicted to survive more than a year - most only a few months.
Then the “experts” would rate the chances of the particular disaster as so small, one would wonder why prep at all.
My opinion, the purpose of the show was to send the message that there’s really not much need to do it, the people who try to prep are silly, and it’s nearly impossible to achieve, so why bother.
Right - it's hard to prepare for every emergency imaginable
Tell that to Puerto Rico - no water, no food, no communications, no power ,no cash, no ATM, etc., etc. (Hurricane)
Tell that to Venezuelans that have been without food, lack sanitary conditions, hospitals are running without electrical power or Medicines (Financial Collapse)
Tell that to the inhabitants of Vanuatu, whose towering volcano eruption displaced most of the inhabitants from their homes (Volcano)
Tell that to the Texans and Floridians who were, and are still without power and out of their homes . (Flooding)
Tell that to Montanans and Idahoans who were forced out of their homes due to wildfires and smoke. (Wildfires)
Rite ! You can't 'prepp' for everything, just DEFINE WHAT IS MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR AND PREPP FOR THAT !
In the medical profession it is called TRIAGE : selectively setting priorities for maximum success, while minimizing your losses !