Prepper Forum

How do you prep?

Well, it stops being storing things in your basement, and turns into selling your house and migrating to a locale that is not experiencing wet bulb temps that'll kill you if you lose electricity. It's very hard to keep an A/C going if all you have is solar panels on your house.

And if A/C goes from being a luxury to being the ONLY reason you don't die--well, you either need to go somewhere where A/C can be a luxury again, or you pour massive amounts of cash into generating electricity on land you own...which is hard and expensive, which is why we typically rely on cities to set that stuff up for us as a public utility, because it's cheaper and more efficiant.

With climate change, the rust belt region around the great lakes is likely going to revitalize again, both because the availability of fresh water (avoiding what's going on around Denver and in California), and the cooler, northern temperatures. Also, old city infrastructure that can be finally updated if the cities start growing again and get a bigger tax base.

People who "prep" with a genuine long-range view of the future will do this sooner than later.

People who "prep" by stockping guns and whatever-the-fuck for a Mad Max type dystopia either get fucked where they live because they're not actually thinking about survival rationally and don't realize they actually DO need to sell their house and get somewhere safer, or they decide to migrate at the very last second and end up caught in the morass of other people who only migrate when the frying pan finally gets too hot to stand in.