An overview of how our family is prepared
A resident of Richmond, Virginia, outlines their practical approach to emergency preparedness, focusing on likely local infrastructure failures rather than catastrophic scenarios. The author details specific solutions for water and power outages, including the use of portable power stations.
Why it matters
It provides a realistic perspective on household resilience and infrastructure dependency in modern urban environments.
Reading Dave's post, Prepare (opens in a new tab) , has me thinking about my own preps, so I wanted to write down a few things about our own plans and approaches.
In order to plan properly, I took the time to think about the things I felt could affect us. I see a fair amount of people on the preppers subreddit planning for the Shit Hits the Fan type scenarios. That is, societal collapse and zombie apocalypse type events. That's not what we plan for. We plan for things that we feel are likely to happen to us.
We have a strong preference for sheltering in place, so we do not have a go bag or anything like that. We'd shelter in place because that's where all our preps are!
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