Preppers

[Solocle]

Since all Armageddons appear unexpectedly — it is part of the specification — there is a common-sense case for keeping an emergency kit available. I suggest as much of the SAS survival manual stuff as you can fit in the largest single trunk that will go in the boot of your car. Replace all perishable items on a half-way to sell-by basis. Do I do this? Absolutely not. Is it worth doing? Probably yes; not because you will ever use it but because it acts as a practical reminder that houses burn down, houses flood, houses subside, disease strikes unpredictably, revolutions occur, invasions happen, and so on and so on. How many Jewish families have jewels sewn into clothing, bank deposits in three or more countries, family arrangements to lodge people rendered homeless? They are an expert group at this kind of activity — and they survive.

Well, I can't say that I have any of that, probably the closest I ever got was having a cycle route planned and ready to go to the nearest port if I wanted to leave the country from university. But tbh I didn't have much stuff I could schlepp with me anyway.

That said, I did see an example of this sort of concept in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv.

This is for an entire apartment building (9-10 people), but the assumption will be that it's just while awaiting rescue, not an apocalypse above.