Yes Yes. I remember the days of the Y2K survivalist here on FR. There were bunches of people like you who were hording water by the pickup truck load and lacked no shortage of dehydrated beans in their bunkers.
They also told me I was clueless and that I was going to see my property, family and life swept away in the anarchy and violence that would sweep the world on January 1st of 2000.
But that's enough of this thread. Arm-a-geddin outta here (ha ha...funny little play on words).
Phew! A stinker! lol
You seem insecure about something, there isn’t any reason a thread about preparedness should set you off.
Many of us here at FR carried BOBs in the military especially LRRPS, many of us here are outdoors-men and hunters that learned to carry survival kits and BOB in our cars when we are visiting remote areas where car trouble can mean a long, even overnight journey on foot.
Many of us here have been awakened by an earthquake and had to flee our homes, or had to flee fire when a BOB is a very good thing to have.
Personally I grew up in hurricane country and thought that preparedness was a way of life, even now in Sol. Cal. when the fires get close to my home I grab my BOB and set it by the door, I always refuse the voluntary evacuations so having a BOB is a sensible precaution for me as it is for anyone else.
Some people are just independent and in the American tradition of old we like to be ready for whatever life throws at us.
I have a customer that lives about 15 miles from her office where she had her office wear and shoes and nothing else, I’m glad that she now keeps a BOB that has the stuff in it that she will need if she ever has to walk that 15 miles home under unpleasant conditions during an emergency, or even if she just has to spend a night or two at the office instead of getting home.