It is my personal policy not to advertise my preparedness.
I didn't say anything about "advertising" the fact, just that it was better (i.e. -
a good policy) than being caught
unprepared. And I agree that the "survivalists" have gotten a bad rap, but they are probably the
best prepared of us all, for
whatever disaster may come down the pike at them (and, I also believe that a significant number of them have gone a bit overboard).
But... if
TSHTF, they will all fare much better than "Joe Average" - who is totally
unprepared. I would
guess - and it is
purely a guess - that 65-70% of the population has made no preparations at all, 20-25% are
somewhat prepared for short-term (2 weeks tops) interruptions to their normal way of life, 10% are prepared for reasonably long-term (30-90 days) interruptions to their normal way of life, and 5% are ready for the "Doomsday Scenario" (90 days until it ends).
Locally the preparedness (as in
food storage) is much higher than the 30-35% of those who are "prepared", and I would assume that
most Utahans also have "stored" the necessary means to insure they can retain that food which they have stored. I wouldn't hazard a guess about "bug-out bags", but my opinion is that Utahans are relatively "territorial". Therefore,
I see them as less likely than many folks to take to the hills (but, if they
did choose to bug-out, we have a
LOT of
awesome hills and mountains to take to) even though bugging out seems to be preferred to being 'trapped' in the city. Pax...