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Yep.
I'm not a prepper but I have an emergency water supply that, under the worst circumstances, could last me a month and a half. It's really nice when the water's out for whatever reason to have zero disruption.
Same with food, roughly 1.5 months worth.
I agree that when it comes to the essentials to live, it's just a good idea to have reserves.
Yeah, you are a prepper.
Most people that do legitimate emergency preparedness programs tend to only go two weeks out, because unless you have specific geographic restrictions, any emergency that lasts longer than two weeks is essentially going to end the world.
Thank you for that information.
How much water and food is that? We could easily live for a couple of weeks off what's in our pantry and freezers. Losing electricity would shorten that considerably.
I haven't crunched the numbers exactly, but I have six 12-packs of canned, purified water. I'd guess I have about 50-60 packs of dry, shelf stable goods like rice packs and mac-and-cheese, but also have a bulk pack of twelve jars of peanut butter that I bought solely to keep in case of some unimaginable cataclysm.
So yeah, not prepper level, but definitely stocked adequately for any short-term disruptions.
I started building up my pantry after 'Liberation Day', because I was concerned supply chain disruptions would get worse and more frequent.
Ok. That sounds totally reasonable. When you said over a month, i thought you had one of those MRE barrels from Costco. We usually have a case of water and a case of bubbly water cans in the garage and we could probably live for 4 weeks if we had effectivity to keep things frozen. We're bad about throwing stuff into the garage freezer and forgetting it's there - mostly chicken nuggets, French fries, pizza. Cucumbers, tomatillos, and hatch peppers are growing right now.
Yup, it's just me, so I don't really need a ton of supplies.
At least, I hope we don't run into an event where what I have is insufficient.