[Kartographer]

Another thing to think about is that the disaster does have to hit you directly it only has to cut off your food, water and power. You say that you've been caught off guard by two major hurricanes and a couple of tornadoes and yet you've learned nothing, which in itself tells me much about your mind set one which repeats the same mistakes over and over again. Yes you got by, but did you ever consider that you got by with luck. I find it odd that so many who don't prepare or look down on those that do say things like: “Why should I prepare it will just all get destroyed or I won't be able to get to it or we will all be dead so it doesn't matter.” That's BS! In most disasters many many people live, very rare are the disasters where everyone is killed and everything destroyed. As I posted a disaster does have to hit you directly it only has to cut off your food, water and power. But you go ahead stand on the side of the road begging for FEMA to feed and provide for you and your family. Don't take care of your own, make sure you and your family are on tv lined up awaiting the ‘guberment’ to help you. Me I don't wish to be at the mercy of some bureaucrat. Some people are ants some people are grasshoppers. I hope you find being a grasshopper works for you.

[yup2394871293]

As for food, water and power, if you only have a half-empty ketchup bottle in your fridge at any given time, live in place where you are surrounded by people you don’t trust or respect, and are incapable of walking, then yes, you are a fool. Either that, or you’re living in Somalia and you have my pity.

[Salamander]

Dude, trust me.

I live less than a mile from one of those places that ‘doesn’t exist’ and I won’t even hear the whistle of the nukes coming in.

I grew up and still live in the backwoods and can survive just fine, short of a 10 megaton dropping next door.

And I ain’t beggin’ -nobody- for jack sh*t.

Hillbillies don’t beg.

My kin have survived in these hard mountains for 300 years without the revenooers giving us one single damn thing except a really hard time during prohibition.

I didn’t taste store-bought bread or milk until I left home at 18 and “hamburger” was what you had to feed corn and hay every morning.

Don’t you -ever- dare refer to me as a ‘grasshopper’ again.

You don’t know me *or* what I’m perfectly capable of doing.

Do yourself a BIG favor and put me on your avoid list.

[richardtavor]

“Why should I prepare it will just all get destroyed or I won’t be able to get to it or we will all be dead so it doesn’t matter.” If you wait until the disaster hits, you will not have any options. Most people don’t know that most grocery stores only keep a 3 day supply of food and water. If disaster strikes and you are not prepared, you will stand in line, perhaps turning to violence with concern for your family, to get whatever rations that they sell. I don’t plan on being at the grocery store..Prepare, it is the only smart thing to do.