Anyone that does that is an idiot.
In my area, most likely threats are tornados, damaging straight line winds, wildfires, and personal financial events.
Those preps also work for someone in an earthquake zone, or a hurricane, or a blizzard.
I'm not prepping for earthquakes, I'm prepping for tornados, but if the New Madrid goes off (unlikely, in my lifetime), the tornado preps cover me.
/johnny
>>I’m not prepping for earthquakes, I’m prepping for tornados, but if the New Madrid goes off (unlikely, in my lifetime), the tornado preps cover me.
It’s also a mindset, which I am (frankly) still working on. Looking at resources all around me that I can use in a SHTF scenario, but which would be helpful in a typical short-term (weeks to month) power outage/natural disaster situation.
For example, some helpful FReeper mentioned a “rocket stove” on a thread yesterday. Not being more than ankle deep in prep’ing, I hadn’t heard of it before. Now I’m thinking of building a small one and using it for cooking on weekends—because all the prep in the world is worthless if you don’t do it with some first-hand experience.