We were too busy trying to get clean water (boil water notice is a joke when you have no electricity. unless you have a wood cookstove, firewood and access to reasonably unpolluted surface water), food (grocery stores were empty for weeks down here) and access to medical care (difficult when there’s giant trees down on your main road. For mile after mile after mile).
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Uh huh. That’s why we prep.
Everyone needs a water filtration device in their homes — now. They run around $300 — easily purchased if you just give up a few dinners out for the month. Same goes for food storage.
Anyone who is not prepared to survive in place for at least 3 months with food, water, and needed medicines is a complete dufus.
I agree with your statements.
However, how many of your neighbors have these preps in place? Are you willing to watch your neighbors kids starve? What if your neighbor is an electrical engineer with the know how to fix things once the equipment to do so becomes available? Do you let him starve?
How many of the EBT card holders do? If the rest of the infrastructure burns to the ground when the ‘youth mobs’ riot it will be far longer than 3 months before order is restored.
And those really big step down generators? Take months to deliver after an order. We no longer make those in this country.