Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe

The way I see it, the fact that you can die at any moment never changes. Regardless of how prepared you believe yourself to be. I've probably read too many books on the pointlessness of risk aversion but I prefer not to kid myself.

Originally Posted by Zeraph

I am somewhat prepared. Let me explain. I live in an area where there are no natural disasters, not even flooding. So my prepared bag of tricks is more for the nuclear variety. Or civil unrest/rioting. And each of those types of worse case scenarios has separate reactions based on the particular situation. Like if it was a nuke, how far away it was. If I need to stay home or get away. So I don't have much in the way of a bag of supplies, because most situations would require too many different things (I'd actually like to buy a hazmat suit, but can't afford it.) So most of my preparedness comes from knowledge.