Is anyone here a “Prepper?”

In our case, with the wildfire season going from April til September, & evacuations of whole towns, including us 2 years ago, we have to have the suitcases mostly packed, & the cat carriers sitting beside them ready to run at a moments notice. I really would like to see the politicians, & climate deniers have to fight the fires for these months & still maintain their ignorant positions rather than sit in their air conditioned offices, calling it non existent. Our evac lasted 18 days at the time, but others have had it much longer. Then there is the flooding in other areas, with many more evacuations. This is becoming so widespread we’re not going to have any place to run to!

@asianne, my bad… I forgot (or never knew) that the window for editing a post is 30 minutes. (I can edit any post for you, if you ask.)

I have been through many hurricanes, some that blew part of the roof from my house.  It does feel a lot like one of those disaster movies. No power, no phones, no water. One time the block formed an armed militia with watch shifts against looters. That wasn’t really necessary in retrospect because you would need a boat to get in. After a few weeks when nobody had fuel for their generators I will never forget how dark and silent the nights. I enjoyed that but we were down to the peppermint schnapps, yuck. Eventually we drilled an artesian well that free flows. The last hurricane at least we had water. I always have about a month of canned goods and  candles.