>>1290494Right? It's amazing how much people's attitudes have changed on the topic.
When I was growing up, we'd always keep dry goods, canned food, and water, to last at least a week, should the power fail in a storm. We had winter risks as well as summer, so we remained prepared all year.
Now, the general idea is not to have anything, because they think the government should bail them out.
Hell, even the Red Cross pamphlet says three days, and people call that bullshit because they haven't lost power for very long during a severe thunderstorm.
But one night when a car took out a utility pole, the lights were out for the better part of a night. About an hour into it, after dark, people started getting into their cars, to find open stores (Walmart and Target, until Target closed, then just Walmart) to mill around so they didn't have to sit in the dark. So there went more dumbasses, driving around on dark streets without working traffic lights, where people panic when a light goes on blink. I'm sure getting to their retail sanctuary was a dream.
What did I do? I lit a candle and chilled the fuck out at home. I got hungry, and my biggest concern was whether to use a camping stove on the patio, or just to snack on something else -- like cheese, crackers, and fruit -- and not bother cooking. Thirsty? There was still water pressure, but I had a few jugs in storage. If the outage had affected the city's pumps, no biggie. I lived in an apartment in a major city, by the way.
