Originally Posted By: Mark_R
it's surprisingly affordable. I've found the limiting factor for preparedness to be the cost of replacing short shelf life supplies, like food which goes bad after a year or so.

Ditto that. My only concern is water supply in CA (I doubt I could ever store so much water). Long shelf life food preps does not seem neither hard to do, nor expensive, especially if you are into cannery and dehydrating science.