Say what you want about those Doomsday Preppers, but at least they're prepared. While I'm not advocating that we should start canning and hoarding food or begin building underground bunkers, it would help to be proactive about events we're more or less sure to happen. Like storms and monsoon rains, which are a yearly occurrence here in the Philippines.
Year in and year out, we act so surprised when our city is ravaged by a storm. Many get stranded in their cars and homes, when roads become flooded and unpassable.
Why do we resort to panic-buying only when our supplies have run low and the lines in the groceries are long? Maybe we should make sure that our homes/cars/bags at least have these basic emergency items -- especially when it's monsoon season. Better to be paranoid that caught unaware, right?
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