Doomsday Preppers don't seem that well prepared to me...

[pamela]

30. Most preppers have too narrow of a focus.

That's my problem with prepping: chances are the thing you are preparing for won't happen and the thing that rocks your world is something you never imagined. My home was pretty much destroyed two years ago by an earthquake. I lived in Maryland and was pretty prepared for blizzards, hurricanes, floods, but an earthquake? In Maryland? Two days before it happened I would have said you were insane if you told me to prepare for an earthquake.

I read a blog of a guy who is kind of a prepper although he doesn't talk about it much. He lives in a motorhome and works as a gate-guard in the oil-fields of Texas. Makes pretty good money. Sometimes he would allude to some prepping: buying guns, dehydrated food, land in Terlingua for an eventual homestead, etc. The other day, his motorhome was hit by a hailstorm and totaled and he doesn't have the money to replace it. He was prepared for, well hell, I actually don't know what he was prepping for but clearly not for Mother Nature's wrath. I feel bad for him but whenever I see someone prepping for some specific fantasy of their darkest imagination, I just shake my head.

There are homesteader preppers trying to live off-grid and raise their own food. That makes more sense but it's a hard life and I feel the same way about them as that guy I mentioned. They are only really prepared for a few specific things and not really prepared for what may actually happen to them. I guess I'm kind of cynical but my experience with the earthquake taught me that you just can't even fathom what might actually be about to happen to you.