"Disaster Preppers"

[nickinSTL]

21. my wife and some of our friends have gotten into "prepping"

I think our friends are rather nuts about it, and my wife even takes it further than I think is necessary, but...

She views it something like this:

1. Prepare first for the most likely scenario.
2. Have enough stuff easily available to get through a 3-day power outage or similar short-term event
3. Prepare for a longer, say 2-week power outage or similar event (we've had a couple of storms in this area in the past few years that have actually resulted in some areas being without power for as much as 2 weeks, so this is still very much within the realm of possibility)
4. Have enough food stored for 6 months. This is where I think she's maybe going a little overboard. Here she's thinking of something at least on the order of the Katrina disaster, though we wouldn't have a hurricane/flood around here - we could have an earthquake or major tornado. We could have major flooding of the Mississippi, as well, which wouldn't affect our home, but would have a major impact on the area.

However, I have a hard time imagining we'd actually need 6 months of stuff.


Our friends are apparently buying guns and stockpiling for a minimum 6 months of food...