Disaster Preparation?
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- melq0
I listened to a podcast on the topic (cannot recall the title) and it laid things out pretty well, stating that the likelihood of a "disaster" increases based on the scale of its reach. My personal thoughts on the subject are...
Personal: highly likely
Death in the family, job loss, serious illness.
This stuff happens all the time and is a big deal to those it touches, but do not really affect your neighbors, etc. This level, everyone pretty much prepares for in some fashion.Neighborhood: likely
Things that affect the area in which you live. Could be the power outage as hit several east coast states for more than a week recently, snow storms, etc. This stuff happens enough that everyone really should give it some consideration (this is the level I pretty much prepare for).Circling outward from there: possible
Without rule of law for a few days or weeks. Thanks to Hurricane Katrina and the LA riots, I can't say it'll never happen, so I respect it enough to give things a bit of thought. I just don't stress over it/invest in it.Catastrophic end-times stuff: unlikely
I limit my thoughts on this level to reading books by Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy.