I agree. The mundane, day to day emergencies are the ones that people need to prepare for. They are the ones that are likely to happen to them and they are the ones that people can actually come up with a reasonable plan to deal with.
If there is going to be a mass-effect disaster impacting millions of people, it is nearly 100% certain to be caused by the government and not an act of God.
Always amused by how people think prepper thoughts in such an absurdly mild way.
People advise others to prepare for what is likely, like the horrors of 48 hours of power outtage from some natural disaster like hurricane or earthquake.
This is not prepping. This is silliness. You’re preparing not to survive, but to maintain maximum comfort. This is not a lot different from buying a fan and enduring the horrors of standing up and turning it on.
Then there are the guys saying look, only a week or two is worst case. Deal with that by enduring the horrors of going to get your car keys and driving somewhere that Arbys is still making food.
This is prepping for things that don’t require prepping. It’s just stupid.
There are lots of prepper websites and they tend to be run by guys who 30 years ago got 6 weeks of training as an Army Ranger and in those 6 weeks there were 2 hours of talk about living off the land. This was 30 years and 30 pounds ago. This is not a person to listen to.
Item 1: about 0.1% of the population can survive 6 months in place. The water is going to disappear from the pipes. Start your thinking from that point in scenario. Water disappears from pipes and you need 6 months of it.
Item 2: Because of Item 1, have a destination. If you have a plan and a destination in mind, you will be ahead of 99% of the population.
Item 3: Because of Items 1 and 2, there is no point storing food where you are.
Item 4: If power is out for a long time, you can’t pump gasoline into your car. Have a plan.