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I fiddle with batteries and very small scale solar. My inverter should be able to handle running my fridge for a few hours.

For me it's having a basic lay of the land / sense of direction to know where everything is incase of a total GPS blackout one of these days ( I live in the city, not a rural area )

Another pandemic lockdown.

I'm from an area where the power will go down reliably for several days, up to a week due to either a hurricane or an ice storm. I keep enough pantry food such as rice, lintels, canned soup etc. to get through it, and I have a 72 hour bag I can just grab on my way out to the car should there be a need to evacuate.

I'm bought into the Craftsman V20 cordless tool system, I have a number of batteries and among the tools I have for that set is a chainsaw, a reciprocating saw, and an inverter. I have several different ways of cooking without electricity and 9 ways to start a fire.

I'm ready to wait for Duke Energy to fix what the storm broke.

I keep my car's gas tank half full, at least, at all times. Any disaster in my region (except something cataclysmic) I think I'd be able to get far enough away from to protect our lives.

I do home-brewing as a hobby so I guess I have cider and wine to enjoy the collapse of society and the end of the world as we know it tipsy enough to take the edge off.

Vaccines. I got my mpox shots because it works across a broad spectrum of pox viruses. The mpox vaccine is actually just the modern smallpox vaccine! Not terribly common, but in the past decade or so, someone found a frozen vial of smallpox in a university lab freezer.

While unlikely that mpox or smallpox will ever completely blow up into a huge pandemic, it is good to have.

I got a solar panel and battery in case of power loss. Won't do much for heating, but as long as 4G stays up, it'll allow me to communicate. Or I could probably get around 30min of PC time out of it if necessary.

I think I could survive a Prohibition for quite some time, and even homebrew and sell it or run a speakeasy.

I keep a few things (museli bars, water, blankets first aid kit) in the car in case of getting stuck somewhere or needing basics suddenly.

At home I keep 'minimum levels' of things we use often, in case of a power outage or just so if anything were to happen we could get by for a couple of weeks. We are limited by space and try to keep organised.

A full bladder while driving

Tomorrow.

Food distribution breakdown. I have 30 days of non-perishable food stored in the basement.

Also 4000 rounds of .223 and 3000 rounds of 7.62x39 in sealed ammo cans in the basement in case that isn't enough food.