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I'm in the "be prepared" group where we usually have a couple weeks of food and water around. We also have two forms of heat for when the power goes out.
Will we survive WW3 on this? No, but it has been very helpful after big winter storms that took out the city power.
Having some supplies to use in the short term is good for everyone. Being ready to go out to help neighbors and get the community back on its feet is how we get through to the next good times.
I wouldn't call that being a prepper. That's just sensible preparation for something like a natural disaster. Preppers think they'll survive whatever their conception of "the big one" is.
I'm neither American nor a native English speaker so take it with a grain of salt.
That's where I'd put the line between a regular prepper and a doomsday prepper.
Not to forget the very elusive Sergent Prepper.
How about the Red Hot Chili Prepper?
Need to apply some Prepper-H after eating Chili Preppers, that's for sure
Yeah I think Dr. Prepper can write a prescription for that
I guess in my mind, 'prepper' is just short for 'doomsday prepper' and it's not the same thing as doing, like I said above, sensible preparation for natural disasters.
Anyone that has been through even a bad blizzard knows it's important to have some basic supplies. Depending on where in the US you live, it would actually be considered unusual and irresponsible to not have some basic preparation for weather and related stuff. Not having a cold-weather car kit and home preparations for losing power in a blizzard in the upper Midwest, for instance, would be considered stupid.
No one thinks tornado shelters are that weird if you live in tornado alley. I'm sure hurricane prone areas probably have their own set of ready prep stuff that would seem weird in other parts of the country.
You're not talking about doomsday preppers.
Yeah that's what I'm saying. The stuff I mentioned is just reasonable preparation for, like... life. Sometimes stuff gets disrupted for unexpected reasons. Like toilet paper during a pandemic lol.