Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
It seems that in all those rules of prepping sometimes the most important one has been thrown out of the window at the very beginning - i.e. people expend a lot of resources to prepare for stuff that is unlikely and should be low priority while completely ignoring to prepare for less sexy, but far more likely scenarios.

Not quite sure why the reason you are prepared makes any real difference..

If you are prepared for a Killer Asteroid strike, I would think you are also prepared for a Tornado, and Blizzard, or Power Outage, basic survival is after all "basic"..

In fact the US government found out that by simply Calling it the Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide they increased their internet traffic and hoped that more people would perhaps learn the basics of survival..

CDC - Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response: Zombies

Even the stupid reality show that people in this thread are referencing has increased awareness about basic survival, it doesn't much matter if you laugh at the Fringe Wacko reasons why they are prepping and some of their dumb preps, if you are thinking about the basics then something good came from it...