Quote Originally Posted by Hmac View Post
Well, there are preppers and there are those who don't believe in the imminence, or even the likelihood, of the SHTF/EOTWAKI scenario. I'm in the latter group, as is the general culture around here. I can't conceive of the need to "bug out".

Everyone judges the others' fantasies differently.
There is a post above from a member who lived through Katrina. That wasn't fantasy. I pulled security at a Katrina then a month later a Rita shelter in '05 for evacuees.

Currently in my state we are seeing the largest natural disaster in our state's history. There are lots of reasons why people may have to egress from their homes/work/schools.

Living in the land of 10k lakes, is flooding a potential threat in your AO? One of my rules for buying land is not to be located on a body of water ocean/river/lake. In the county I live in there is a town that my wife wanted to look at couple of homes in, the town is on a peninsula that is surrounded on three sides by a lake. I told her uh no.