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Originally Posted by neech
I read all three of John Matherson books that you mentioned earlier, but yeah I'm about as prepared as you and figure if SHTF I'm about as screwed as everyone else in the country. It will be Neechs last stand at my household I'm afraid.
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That’s kind of my thinking. To adequately prepare for something like a world-wide Carrington Event would literally be life-consuming. You have to measure the risk of harm and the magnitude of harm and while the magnitude would be tremendous, the risk of a massive EMP doesn’t appear to justify the preparation necessary unless I was already massively wealthy.
An earthquake, though, is much more probable where I am. I figure if there’s another bad earthquake (and I’ve lived through a 7.2, which was terrifying, but it wasn’t the 9.1 of the Good Friday earthquake), it would have massive disruptions here but I think supply chains and transportation would be running, even if on a limited schedule, within 2-3 weeks tops. So preparing for that possibility does not require nearly the commitment as it does to prepare for a total grid-down SHTF moment.