Hierarchy of needs, meet the likelihood of potential problems. Everything you described is a larger scale, high impact event. You might also include social unrest/riots, supply disruptions, or events like hacking of ATMs/plastic payment processors.
Those are all reasonably medium likelihood and high impact events.
Then there are events like the loss of a job, severe extended illness or injury or death, divorce or even a forced relocation to another region for job or family reasons. These are all low impact from a societal perspective but high impact to the affected people. They’re also nearly certain to occur and affect all of us at one time or another in our lives.
Point is- there will be something that happens that was unexpected. Thinking through the implications and preparing for them in advance will absolutely reduce the impact of any events from an auto accident or job loss to a major regional disaster. And take comfort- the basic preparations for all of these events are very similar and will reduce the impact of them on you and your loved ones.
Thanks for sharing. Really great advice here. Yes, there are so many unexpected events that we need to prepare for. Even more so these days where there's all kinds of new chaos going on.
Offline communication means having ways to connect when the internet and cell networks fail, things like walkie-talkies, ham radio, hand-crank radios, whistles, written notes, and pre-planned meet-up points. Simple, reliable, and independent of the grid.
Hierarchy of needs, meet the likelihood of potential problems. Everything you described is a larger scale, high impact event. You might also include social unrest/riots, supply disruptions, or events like hacking of ATMs/plastic payment processors.
Those are all reasonably medium likelihood and high impact events.
Then there are events like the loss of a job, severe extended illness or injury or death, divorce or even a forced relocation to another region for job or family reasons. These are all low impact from a societal perspective but high impact to the affected people. They’re also nearly certain to occur and affect all of us at one time or another in our lives.
Point is- there will be something that happens that was unexpected. Thinking through the implications and preparing for them in advance will absolutely reduce the impact of any events from an auto accident or job loss to a major regional disaster. And take comfort- the basic preparations for all of these events are very similar and will reduce the impact of them on you and your loved ones.
Thanks for sharing. Really great advice here. Yes, there are so many unexpected events that we need to prepare for. Even more so these days where there's all kinds of new chaos going on.
Please offer examples of “offline communication” methods.
Offline communication means having ways to connect when the internet and cell networks fail, things like walkie-talkies, ham radio, hand-crank radios, whistles, written notes, and pre-planned meet-up points. Simple, reliable, and independent of the grid.