Myopic? I think you need to re-examine the nature of the destruction on the east coast and what caused it: massive flooding. So how do you prepare for that considering all your "prepper supplies" are likely in your basement which is now flooded and your firearms carefully and cleverly buried in your flooded backyard?
And if you DO have to evacuate, you're going to have to leave behind your year of survival food and stuff since your car, van, or truck can only hold so much of that stuff.............
"Prepping" is only good for an end of the world scenario which is unlikely to happen in yours or my lifetime.
Did you not read my post 36 to you cause it appears to have escaped your attention.....
So here’s a link to it again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2952623/posts?page=36#36
There are far more homes unflood, but with people with no power and no way to get anywhere than there are flooded homes. Most likely 9 to 1 or better. Now if each of the homes that are unflood just cut off and with no power have prepped how much less a strain will it be logistically on first responders? How much well being able to take care of yourself and not needing help ease their response and leave more for those that need it?
Wow, some of us have needed our preparedness during a number of different decades during our lives, I am in a period right now where my preparedness is carrying me through (not a hurricane).
As a kid we needed our prep goods during hurricanes in the 1950s and 1960s and 1980s.
You really don't it, do you? The person who had the foresight to prep also had the foresight to move the preps to higher ground when he heard, an entire week before, that a flood was coming. Burying weapons in the damp ground out of reach, hahahahahaha!!! Did you pay for health insurance last month? If you didn't use it, then you are just as wasteful as a prepper who had to bug out and leave his stuff.
This is twice in two years that NY and that surrounding area has been hit with a hurricane, and just last summer a massive drecheo knocked out power for weeks. Thats three events in just two years.
You expect to be the 47% sitting in your apartment 12 hours into the storm whining about not enough food and thinking about joining the looters.
Or the individual in NJ complaining their toilet won't flush and can't figure out how to handle sanitation without gov't help.
Those who live in hurriacane country PLAN on evacuations (whoops, must have missed that) so they have what they need with them to ride out the evacuation - (pssssst, its called PREPPING).
You find yourself in a disaster HT, don't whine to us about no food or water getting to you from FEMA. We'll just raise our cups of coffee to you and bite into our supplies we've stored up.
Sun Tzu said, always hold the high ground. I don't think he was talking about floods, but it works.
Yeah, more than ever you've shown that you are myopic.
I "prep" for every winter. We live in snow country and never know what the weather will be and what conditon the roads are going to be in. We live in an area that's roughly 20 miles in ANY direction from a city or reasonable supplies. I prep not only becuase you can never be sure if stuff is going to be available should there be panic buying, which happens with every decent sixed storm predicted, but I also do NOT relish the thought of hauling in heavy loads of groceries through the slop we live with every winter.
It's far easier to stock up with a few months supplies in the nice weather than to do it in the teeth of a nor'easter or lake effect snow when it's coming down 2-3 inches per hour and you realize that you ran out of something.
I am not adequately prepped for TEOTWAWKI scenario, but I could go a good month without shopping and still not be hurting.
Prepping is most certainly worth it even if the world is NOT coming to an end.