Didn't notice this sub-forum. I'd kinda like to revive it since much of the content is old and outdated. The next big test will be the upcoming midterms socially wise excluding the natural disasters of course.

Emergency preparedness is always a good thing to practice. It definitely took off at the start of the pandemic and during the riots and insurrection.
Guns are a good place to start. Then there's the food, water water filters, don't forget meds and first aid kits.
At our house we have been prepping for years. Especially for those mentioned above. I find it mind boggling how many people are not prepared to live out the shortest of emergencies, even a few days without the essentials and things we take for granted like power, fuel, water - getting back to home besides the bug out bag everyone hears about. Bug out? Not me.
Here's a good little article.

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Do you want to be better prepared for emergencies but aren’t sure where to start or if you’re doing it right? This “prepping for beginners” emergency preparedness checklist walks you through the basic steps with sane, expert-verified advice for modern people. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to handle the majority of what may come your way.
Whether you’re worried about a sudden layoff, home invasions, car accidents, the power going out for a week, natural disasters, or long term economic and societal decline, it’s critical that you start getting prepared now. By definition, if you wait until you need it, it’s already too late.

You’re not alone: Millions of rational people from all walks of life are taking preparedness seriously — and the movement is growing as more people realize they can’t depend on others to save them in our changing world.
But prepping can seem overwhelming. And to make matters worse, there’s a lot of crazy “loud minority” junk out there that pollutes rational preparedness with extremism, dangerous info, or silly internet debates that don’t actually matter.

The whole point of prepping is to reduce the chances of major life disruptions and to better recover from disruptions when they do happen. That’s it!

Even something as simple and common as a fire extinguisher in your kitchen counts — the vast majority of prepping has nothing to do with bunkers and bullets!
https://theprepared.com/prepping-basics ... beginners/

When I was a little girl, I watched my dad desperately trying to dig a fallout shelter in the crawlspace of our home during the Cuban Missile crisis. It had a profound affect on me. I've been into prepping/emergency management ever since.

Hiker wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:56 pm When I was a little girl, I watched my dad desperately trying to dig a fallout shelter in the crawlspace of our home during the Cuban Missile crisis. It had a profound affect on me. I've been into prepping/emergency management ever since.

We all dug a big one in one family's back yard in our culdesac. Ended up as make out spot. Been making out ever since.

CDFingers

Not a prepper. Prepper-adjacent?

Some scenarios are absolutely ridiculous, others - you damn well better be prepared. I'd argue that the big thing for gun owners is to have a plan for what to do with your firearms in any of the various realistic scenarios you might face. Californians, that's wildfire evacuation and earthquakes. Northeasterners, think snowstorms, ice storms, and protracted power outages. Midwesterners - tornadoes. Southerners - hurricanes. Think about how to secure them if you have to bug out. Think about your liabilities if you use them. Evaluate your risk exposure realistically. Most prep work has substantial overlap between scenarios.

Fun fact, FEMA still has nuclear war scenarios if you're into that sort of thing.

Tucson used to be a huge target for russian missles since we had 30 Titan II missle silos ringing Tucson, plus the DMAFB that served them. Tucson was just going to be annihilated.
Still people built bomb shelters. A few high school friends parents had them built. The old straight down hole 30ft down with a tiny room and an air shaft that had no way to filter out bad things. lol Hardly a long term solution. But better than 99% of the other people around.