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Warning: I spent $300 on a bunker's worth of canned beans for a 'grid down' scenario
My basement flooded last month and now I'm just a guy with 200 soggy bean cans. Anyone else have a prep purchase that totally backfired?
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lisa9764mo ago
Yeah but is the real risk that people are prepping for the wrong kind of emergency? Like, I get that a major grid collapse is scary but the basement flood thing totally proves the point. Why not just stock extra of what you actually eat and keep a water filter instead of hoarding survival food for a scenario that might never happen?
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lily976mo ago
Okay but how likely is a total grid collapse really? I see people buying all this stuff for doomsday, but most emergencies are way more boring, like a bad storm or a power outage for a few days. A basement flood seems way more common than the end of the world. Maybe we should prep for the Tuesday problems, not the zombie apocalypse ones.
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skyler_anderson656mo ago
Yeah, but where's the line between a Tuesday problem and a bigger collapse? Is it two weeks without power, or two months? I've seen neighborhoods go dark for over a week after an ice storm and it got pretty rough for folks without a backup plan.
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