Why prep? If you're hoping for civil unrest, nuclear attack, asteroid strike, zombie invasion etc. you'll be disappointed you wasted your money on all the things.
Prep for things that might actually happen in the next 12 months.
- Bad weather. Depending where you live, this could be hot, cold, dry, wet, windy, shaky, or a combination of. Oops, there went the electricity. Could be hours or days before it's back on. Live in a highrise? Lol no elevators. You might lose water pressure -- oops no flushy flush. Did you know you can pour a bucket of water into the terlet and it'll flush? By the way, the stuff in your freezer is melting.
- Natural disaster. Some dumbass launched a bottle rocket into a pile of pallets next to the electrical substation and kitty corner to the refinery and whoosh! Another idiot dragging a chain made sparks along the highway and set the tumbleweeds on fire, then the wind blew them around and set everything else on fire. Can't get in or out by road and you left the hovercraft in your other pants. Or the county spent more of our hard earned tax dollars on powerpoints than dam maintenance and oops I meant to say "former dam." Anyhoo, another reason to be stuck at home with no way in or out. At least your house is above the 500 year flood level, right? Right?
- Ah-choo. I'm sick, you're sick, we're all sick. Locked the fuck down sick. Not dyin' sick, but deffo nobody's leaving the house sick. Pukin and snottin and shittin sick, as it were. This too shall pass, but forget about shopping for at least a week and doordash won't come cause as usual the cards are all maxed out. Fuck.
- That rainbow-haired theythem at work went to HR because you forgot and used yesterday's pronouns instead of today's and you got escorted out with your coffee mug, potted fern and sweater in a bankers box. Or head office had to make room for two new levels of middle managers by allowing the lowest ranking "team members" and "associates" to continue their careers outside of Innitech (Is it good for the company?). Or senior management watched an Enron documentary and said "hold my beer." Whatevs, no severance, no pension, hand in your keys and uniforms and walk home in your underwear. Oh, and could you hang onto your final paycheck for a few more days before you try to cash it please? 'Preciate it kthxbye.
- I really fucking can't right now, sorry.
Do you actually have enough food and supplies (toiletries, meds, etc.) on hand to last till the power comes back on, water comes out of the tap again, the roads are passable, you're feeling well enough to shop, you pick up a low paying gig to get by while you look for a real job? Could be a couple days, could be a few weeks. Meanwhile the kids are crying and the phones are all outa battery and I swear if I don't find a cigarette I'm climbing the walls and jumpin from the ceiling fan, see if I don't.
Bet you don't. Bet you got lots of guns and ammo, drums of fuel, heirloom seeds, bags of red AND white wheat in mylar, books about humanure and improvised nuclear weapons, anti-radiation supplies, a couple acres up in the mountains to bug out to when SHTF, complete field hospital in a foot locker, 200 kilos of ivermectin and some silver bullion though. Anything you don't have you can steal from your zero-opsec cuck neighbors with the garden and chickens and goats, amirite?
Prep for mundane disasters first. Stupid stuff that is more of a major inconvenience rather than the end of civilization. Once you've laid in a couple weeks or a month worth of food and water and stuff to keep you and your family from dismembering each other out of ennui, then you can start prepping for fun stuff like volcanic eruptions and alien invasions.
