Doomsday opinion

[Aloha_Shooter]

A few things come to mind: natural disaster (extreme hurricane, meteor strike, etc.), economic collapse, societal collapse. Different preparations for each one but I was trained to "be prepared".

[Hound]

If Yellowstone goes..... It won't matter

[rbeau30]

If Yellowstone goes..... It won't matter

And for us Auroraites, If Buckley goes it won't matter either.

[GilpinGuy]

Focus on preparing for a personal crisis that is more likely to occur, like losing a job, your house burning down, a blizzard socking you in for a few days, a flood, a forest fire, the sudden death of a family member, etc. Prepare for those things first. A supervolcano, an asteroid impacting the earth or an EMP destroying life as we know it are highly unlikely. Doomsday Preppers make real preppers look foolish. I can't watch it.

I suggest listening to thesurvivalpodcast for more of this line of thinking.

[SamuraiCO]

Get and read the book "One Second After". It will help you go through the thought process and put you in the right frame of mind. Your ability to know you are in an emergency situation and have a plan will keep you from freezing and not being able to make any decisions.

As others have stated you can do small things that would allow your household function for days to weeks w/o power. You have food stores so the emergency situation that occurs every time a blizzard is in the forecast is no problem you already have everything needed. I have extra food of staples that we buy every almost weekly like extra spaghetti sauce, spaghetti, mayo, mustard, canned goods etc. We buy beef once a year so at any time I have a lot of beef in the freezer. I also buy extra chicken and vacuum pack the breasts to protect. Extra bacon, fish etc. i have extra propane so if the power did go out for an extended time I would either can or jerk most of my meat in the freezer. Many options for freeze dried foods that store under beds and have 25 year shelf life.

You can move to more serious preps like the ability to heat water and food, have access to some water stores (water barrels in basement, water bob that fits in your bath tubs for water storage, ability to filter water), alternate heat source for rooms (propane or kerosene space heater) to wood stove backup if feasible.

Then think about what would happen if you needed money for emergencies. During a power outage your debit card does not work. Those businesses open will be on cash basis for goods. Have cash reserves in the home or bank for several months of bill payments if you are able to build those reserves. Further diversification of cash with purchase of gold/silver (is at a low right now), alcohol (great barter good that does not go bad and has several uses), etc.

Lots of resources but don't be get overwhelmed by those that seem to have everything and are living "off the grid". That is quite a serious life decision.

I think what will get us is our economy collapsing from debt and the digitizing of our monetary supply, ie the Federal Reserve is adding money to its reserve and buying the US debt. How much longer will that be allowed to occur without severely devaluation the dollar creating inflation or deflation or both ie what happened in Germany between WWI and WWII.

Oh....and guns......lots of guns.

[SamuraiCO]

All that with record revenues made to the IRS by those of us still fortunate enough to be working. When will enough be enough.

[GilpinGuy]

When will enough be enough.

When America is "fundamentally transformed" forever.

[KestrelBike]

All that with record revenues made to the IRS by those of us still fortunate enough to be working. When will enough be enough.

ding ding ding NEVER. Well actually, http://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsrep...mt/mts0914.pdf

for FY 09/30/14, receipts were $3.02 trillion. 3 big items:
Individual income taxes 46%
Payroll (social sec, medicare, retirement withholding on paychecks & employer contribs) 34%
Corporation income taxes <11%

It's going to be a miracle making corporations pay. Republicans want corps to pay even less, while democrats want individuals to pay more. Guess who's on the winning end in both scenarios lol. It is almost a disincentive to earn more to pay more taxes, because the gov will just waste it some more. Government spending is a rabbit hole that no amount of tax revenue will ever fill.

ETA: Going a bit farther, the entire legislature system is broken because Congressmen have zero incentive to pay off the debt ($18 trillion as of last week, with at *minimum* half a trillion each year being added to it with no end in sight) because it does nothing tangential nor immediate for their constituents who elect them. Hah, can you see a senate or rep candidate on a platform of "I pledge to pay $500 billion to the chinese to pay off our debt!" Hell no. They're going to run on a platform of bringing bridge repairs for their district (adds to the debt) or promising to keep their medicare intact (adds to the debt). Zero political incentive to pay off the principal of the debt, lots of incentive to add to it.

[Great-Kazoo]

They way this bridging the racial barrier's been going, hopefully not too much longer. Burn this Bitch DOWN!
Not as long as Im holding the fire extinguisher

[BushMasterBoy]

The best survival food is at the dollar store.