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Of course, when I lived in Oklahoma, my emergency stash was in the garage, but actually if we were hit by a tornado, the garage would probably be blown to Kansas.
Most of the emergencies are short term, thank the Lord. And help usually arrives within a few days or weeks, so most of us just stay in place and help each other: Yes I read stories of "looting" but some of the looting is people trying to find supplies, and the stories of neighbors helping neigbors is the more common experience (such as helping Lolo into the neighbor's tornado shelter, or my son and his girlfriend evacuating her father with COPD during a hurricane, or neighbors/extended family housing people whose houses were under water when it flooded, or when we helped neighbors with water and cellphone recharging after a typhoon took out our water ane electricity here).
Usually just hunkering down is the answer: Evacuation however might be needed in both forest fires and in hurricanes/floods.
But what if a major world wide crisis happens?
Think the global warming predictions, or the year without a summer, or the Bronze age collapse.
Volcanic eruptions are the wild card:
Science has a scary article on the year 536:
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
volcanic cooling and the plague of Justinian probably contributed to the final fall of Rome (without it, maybe Rome would have reconfigured itself and civilization would have come back a lot faster).
the hysteria about global warming is the meme: alas most of their scare tactics aren't working, since a lot of folks see it for what it is: a means to scare you into approving of a NWO dictatorship that will order you how to live.
When they promote ecological friendly policies, most people will listen, but you know, watching the car fire that wouldn't go out when Hammond crashed on the World Tour pretty well turned me off from electric cars... not to mention that they are useful for short trips (we have electric jeepneys in Manila for example) but not much help in a rural rice business, which requires trucks and long hauls for delivery in areas where you might not be able to "fill 'er up" for 90 minutes every 250 miles.
Of course, to some elite bozos, major climate disasters that kill lots of people is a good thing: and it's not just Thanos who thinks that.
Instapundit links to a professor who says we all should die to save the planet.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Clemson Philosopher In NYT: Maybe We Should All Kill Ourselves, Or At Least Abort All Future Children To Save The Planet.
This about says it all: a comedian tweeted a joke years ago loses a job at the Oscars because...homophobia, but hey, promote mass genocide, and no problem because it's for mother Gaia.
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