Quote Originally Posted by El_Chingon View Post
I don't live my life around a SHTF scenario, but I am ready as I can be for an earthquake since I live in CA or KA. if a SHTF like The Road, then nope, but who would be...
I'm not Paranoid Prepper, but we're in the seismically-overdue Cascadia Subduction Zone and have volcanoes in the backyard, and they won't even let me do the Ready.gov MINIMUM without monkeywrenching. (Not to mention their "Nobody NEEDS that" attitude toward even soft vests never mind hard plates...)

OTOH, in a COMWEC once I have them squared away I have to slog my way across the continent to go extract the GF and her parents unless they're here visiting... and even then, between various medical issues of hers and their ages they have a very short post-TEOTWAWKI life expectancy. They probably wouldn't live long enough for me to get from Seattle to Toronto even in the highly unlikely event that *I* survive the trek, but I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't make the effort.