Sue, I will be supplementing my rations with protein. There are numerous neighborhood lakes within a 5 min. walk. these lakes have plenty of brim/crappie, catfish and bass. Also, there are plenty of birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits in my backyard and neighborhood. I live in the suburbs not a concrete jungle.

Like many others, I've always got short-term crisis and longer-term crisis in mind when prepping.

On the ST front:

1. Weather-related issues top the list. Heat, wind, rain and snow are the nasty trio, as much for the power-grid failures as for the damage they cause.

2. We live beside a major national highway and rail line. Chemical spills are a regular occurrence along these routes and the days until it's our turn are numbered.

3. An in-house emergency (fire or flood) is also a possibility so a quick evac is also a priority.

On the LT front:

1. The economy is on the top priority list. We live on a tight budget and prices are constantly going up. "Eat today at yesterday's prices and conserve as much as you can" is our motto around here and informs our purchases, habits and usage as much as anything else. (BTW - a year or two ago I would have put this as number 2 or even 3.)

2. We live in the danger zone of one nuclear power plant and I work right beside another that's dangerously close to home as well.

3. We are close to a rapidly changing flood plain so that's creeping up the list as well.

That's my top six!

Additionally, I also have those immediate, (hopefully) shorter term issues like a personal injury, car accident, vehicle breakdown, etc. These are much more likely scenarios. Very often prevention means success, but Murphy is always watching somewhere, so better to be prepared!

I am not sure you should prepare for a specific events. Where I live -- in the desert Southwest -- the weather here is mild in the winter and other weather hazards are essentially non-existent. Earthquake risk is low and flooding where I live is highly unlikely.

Surviving in the extreme heat of summer without tap water for a few days was the most threatening disaster I felt I might face (after the rarely discussed house fire). Then a record cold snap came in February and changed my perspective. Every power generating plant in the city was knocked out from the extreme cold. All of the electricity for a city of 600,000 was being provided by the local utility's fractional ownership of a nuclear power plant hundreds of miles away. The utility had to start rationing electricity with rolling blackouts.

This caused pipes to freeze and break in many houses that had been without power for only a few hours. The electric utility also inadvertently cut power to some water utility facilities and the city's water supply was compromised. If your house still had water, we were under a boil-order for 3+ days.

I assure you that nobody in this city had prepared for losing their electricity and water due to extreme cold.

Another local example is that earlier this month, the utility's supply lines from the same nuclear power plant were threatened by forest fires -- something that hadn't occurred to the utility's emergency planners since there are not any forests around here.

So to me, preparing for certain types of events is helpful to the extent it helps with general preparedness, but many natural events become disasters because something nobody has ever considered possible happens.

I doubt "plenty" will last more than a week or 2 when every hungry citizen with a gun decides it's open season in your town.

well, by that time, i will either have made it to my BOL or be dead, if all else fails, pitbulls may be on the menu

I would think the easiest way to store protein is to buy cans of high quality whey protein isolate or egg protein. 25 grams of protein per serving is close to half the daily requirement for adults. And while you're at it pick up some fish oil supplements, superfood/wheatgrass powder, chia seeds, flax seeds, multivitamins, etc. We're lucky high quality supplements are cheap enough to stock up on. That might not always be the case.

The worst -

No power. Think on it. Virtually everything runs on power, be it the grocery store (fridges, cash registers), the gas station (the pumps), your house... the list is endless. No power means no commerce, no transportation of goods on a major scale, no water, no heat, no lights, no a/c... need I go on?

Everything after this is gravy.

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