Zero Preparations is a serious issue. Saying have 3 or even 5 days easy to use food and water is just so inadequate. Why we had some people with no electricity for 6 to 8 days after that big Derecho storm in the mid-Atlantic. The Mormons require their followers to have a one year supply of food. Seven years ago when I was caring for my husband who was dying at home with Alzheimer’s I built up a 3 month supply of food as I anticipated a period when it might be very hard to go out to food shop. I still maintain that supply.
Now we have this super heat and over half the country with serious drought problems. If we had even a much smaller volcano event like Tambora (the year with no summer, 1816 fame), our food prices would soar through the roof. There would be a lot of starvation in the rest of the world. We really need to give thought to supporting population limits throughout the world. And no, I don’t mean abortions, I mean supporting pregnancy prevention help.
I was no fan of Romney during the Primary season (to say the least), but just maybe some of the Mormon thinking is in him. There has to be some degree of prepping by the government also, just to keep the zombies at bay. If he does actually think that way, it would be a first at that level of government (with some minor exceptions).
gleeaikin, hammer to nail clean through board with the first sentence (imho), and done in one stroke.
When the lights go out, as was with the storms, those asleep awake. When one is prepared (a non-sleeper) if one did prepare, the sleepers who slept or those who were like the grasshopper, while the ant prepared, the ant is ready, and the sleepers are not. Good for you, not to be a grasshopper.