A disaster occurs.
Some self-identified "preppers" imagine everyone will immediately start fighting one another.
Meanwhile, in reality, I read about everyone doing things from evacuating to search & rescue with boats and helicopters; distributing supplies by foot and bicycle and mule; and surveying and communicating by satellite and drone and ham radio.
And I am reminded of Rebecca Solnit's 2009 "A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster".
@michael_w_busch - While I wouldn't call Crystal and I preppers, we are very big on "let's make sure we're set for immediate survival in a crisis."
We packed not just for us, but for others as well. My car has a roadside emergency kit. We had first aid kits with enough stuff for several people.
We want to survive. We want others to, too.
@michael_w_busch @dolari @mikamckinnon Put another way, it’s the difference in mindset between finding victims to help and making them.
@WhiteCatTamer @michael_w_busch @mikamckinnon - That's a thought that's gonna stick with me for a long while....
@michael_w_busch @dolari @mikamckinnon I'm the same, after a huge tornado outbreak several years ago, power was out for a week and lots of homes were damaged or destroyed. My power wasn't out so people came here for showers etc. I got really interested in general disaster preparedness, not prepping 😝 During that, everyone kind of rallied together to help those affected, just ordinary people were more helpful with food, ice, etc with my friends with lots of damage than FEMA, the Red Cross etc.
@michael_w_busch @dolari @mikamckinnon and there are a lot of churches here, a bunch of church groups basically drove around giving people with no power food and water, and they also had chainsaw crews who would just show up and start cutting up stuff for total strangers.
@dolari I make a distinction between the "prepper" mindset, which has little to do with actually being prepared for a disaster or a crisis, and actual preparedness, which is collective.
( Here I have learned from @mikamckinnon , who quotes "Lost": "Live Together, Die Alone" ).