LOL.
I was thinking of my Operations Management professor. An eccentric guy!
One day, he challenged everyone in class. It could have been an exercise in planning and organizing for contingencies.
“XYZ happens. You have 5 minutes to leave. You can take 7 items with you you. Which five items do you gather up and take?”
Me, myself and I.
One of them should be your flight bag. Because everybody should have a bag packed ready to go if they have to flee something.
Which reminds me my bag is probably getting old enough that I should go through and replace all the freeze-dried meals, although technically they’d last 20 years. At least I should check if anything is getting close to expiration. Also I bought some really good water filter systems, and I should put at least one of them in this bag because I might otherwise forget one. The other is in my camping gear.
Frankly, my preparation started with researching so I bought a home in a location that almost never gets any hurricanes or tornados, no real chance of a major earthquake, and well above the 500-year flood plain.
If I was really paranoid, I’d now buy my natural gas whole-house generator with propane support, put a 500-gallon propane tank in the ground and fill it, and then buy a good solar power system, along with a decent 1-HP well pump and 500 feet of piping (enough to reach down to a local stream).
Then, if the whole world collapsed, I could use solar when it worked, have natural gas generation until the gas lines stop working (gas lines will often work without any power in a local area). And if they stop, I’ve got the propane which should last a year with the solar.
And I’ll have a steady supply of really crappy water, which will allow me to flush my toilets. I can collect rain water and use my filters for drinking.
Of course, I’m not doing all of this, because at the moment I am not feeling all that threatened.