For those not inclined to make any effort to prepare for emergencies and lay in some food and water, remind them of the lost souls wandering around in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina beging for water.
How many hundreds or thousands didn’t even have the common sense to fill up a couple of empty bottles or jugs with tap water before the city water went down?
And it’s not as if they didn’t have ample warning the storm was on the way.
Excellent point! Their are always those who believe that they are special and nothing bad will ever happen to them. Its only common sense to lay a bit aside for times of need just like insurance you buy it an hope like hell you never need it, but you buy it! Several examples of those special people who think they can just muddle through anything with nothing.
Some people do learn the hard way. My little brother who is just starting to get into prepping learned a valuable lesson this past winter. When a storm left them without electricity for 3 days.
Surely just a minor inconvenience when compared to Katrina and such. But he couldn’t get water from his well for his family or his chickens nor did he have any heat. I had been badgering him to put in some milk jugs of water some extra food, fix his wood stove and possibly buy a small generator. This “minor inconvenience” could have been avoided altogether had he listened.
If he had done those small tasks he would have had water for the initial few hours till they realized this was going to go on for an extended period. Then they could have plugged their well’s jack pump into the small generator and pumped water to refill their jugs. The wood stove would have kept them warm. Needless to say on my last visit I found all these things taken care of.
I was in Ohio under a Tornado threat. Having never needed to plan for any such event I asked around from those in the know. It wasn’t long before my bathtub was full of water and most every container I could find for drinking/cooking water. I learned thru that to at least keep ahead a bit just in case.
Exactly!!! I remember a story about an older woman in New Orleans. While people were going hungry and thirsty and really suffering. This older woman had a large store of home canned food, she survived just fine. I think at least on some level, we have a moral obligation to have some stored food for emergencies. I’ve read that most American’s only have about a weeks worth of food. That, is foolishness and just asking for trouble.