Disaster preparation for the disorganized

I think this is pretty basic stuff. If you can not survive for 72 hours without your 'conviniences' then you need to do some serious planning. Think of the ice storms in Qc few years ago. On average it was 7 days with no power, food and roads you couldn't really drive on.

I could hunker down for about 12 days if needed, tho I tend to be a bit of a pessimist

After a big storm in January we were without electricity for ten days - no big deal - just fired up the generator and we were good. Didn't even bother us.

This article felt like a bit of a stretch.

I mean it assumes that you are left in the world with nothing more than you and your family. Of course this would be the case if you're at your cottage or perhaps in a rural area, then perhaps an emergency kit is useful however for urban dwellers the only issue could be water. In winter, the cold might be annoying but we all have warm blankets and warm clothes right?

I mean for city dwellers to actually need an extensive survival kit that lasts over a week, the even would have to be nearly apocalyptic, like a zombie outbreak (wink at The Zombie Survival Guide!) or a communist revolution. Luckily for us, the right honorable Stephen Harper is protecting us from the latter.

So until genetics are advanced enough to bring back the living, I wouldn't worry too much about a survival ki if you like in a city.


Anybody else agrees? Or perhaps if anybody has another scenario (perhaps more realistic ) where city people would need a survival kit, I'm all ears.