Exactly. You have to know what kind of “emergency” you want to be prepared for. For some, that’s two weeks. For some it’s a few days. For some, a couple months. For others, half a year, or year, or several years. But it has to make sense to you and what you consider what you are considering and even whether you’re staying where you are, or going somewhere else, or staying a little while then leaving, etc. And also what makes sense to prepare for given your current housing and financial situation.
We are preparing for a “new reality”. There won’t BE an end. What is coming won’t last a few weeks or months.
I know some here will disagree with me, but we don’t worry about what kind of emergency or disaster may happen. Rather we prepare according to the duration of it, or how long things may be “down”.
Bear with me for a minute.
For instance we don’t say “we are preparing for the zombie apacolypse” or “an 8.0 New Madrid quake”. Rather we put supplies together for lengths of time. We even have a snappy color code to go with it:
Green event: 24-72 hours
Yellow event: 72 hours to 30 days
Red event: more than 30 days
Then we take our geographic location, skill sets, financial resources, etc into account as we procure supplies for each event level. Now IMO every Freeper family should be able to do a Green event standing on their heads whether the circumstance dictates shelter in place or bug out.
We have found, and this is just us of course, that each event level builds on the previous thus making the planning and procurement decisions a bit more logical and less intimidating. At least to us anyway. Does that make sense?
I think of you do your needs assessment and planning in this manner you’ll find it works pretty well. I haven’t mentioned this before but I’m a trained and experienced Emergency Manager type and this the recommended process for those who work in that industry.
Each step builds on the previous one in a logical, orderly manner.
Strictly my opinion, YMMV, and all the usual caveats. Best to all.
L