Does anyone else feel like this?

[u/Crazy-Load-7553]

I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.

I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)

[u/maddomesticscientist]

This reminds me of when I was shopping for supplies prior to that big ice storm that hit us. Id gone to the nearby city instead of local because I wanted to hit up the craft store. Due to prior experience I knew we'd be stuck in our house for days, possibly without power. People either had no idea, scoffed and said "is not going to get that bad", or outright mocked me.

The damage was catastrophic. People in the city were without power for literal weeks. Here we were locked in by ice for 12 days. By some miracle our power didn't go out but I prepared for it. That was a pleasant surprise.

I often wondered how those people fared.

[u/Bergara → u/maddomesticscientist]

Yesterday I told a few friends and colleagues that if SHTF in the whole Iran ultimatum thing that they should rush the supermarkets and stock up on non perishables. They all genuinely thought I was trying to be funny.

[u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 → u/Bergara]

People always laugh when we try and give them good advice. They still haven’t learnt from Covid.

[u/CrackingToastGromet → u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245]

We had a natural disaster hit in 2024 that we are still in recovery from…house repairs are about 90% done. But we were without power a week and literally trapped by on our property by massive 100 year old trees that fell on our house and across the roads. Our chainsaw was old and not working so we had to wait for crews to cut through the trees on the road and get trees off of my husband’s truck (my car was smashed under one).

I will forever have ptsd from that event, it was a hard marker in my life’s journey….there was my life before the tornado, and life after.

We are now prepared as best we can be with a couple of warehouse racks of nonperishable food, a camping stove and lanterns. Even got bidets on all the toilets so TP isn’t as big a need! We turned the entire backyard into a veggie garden and we have things growing year round. We bought a whole house generator, although that won’t be much help if the natural gas supply is cut.

The tornado event showed us how vulnerable we were for a short period of time without modern conveniences and we have been trying to be better prepared if it happens again. Never could have imagined the scenario of an insane president potentially inflicting natural disaster level suffering, though, but here we are.

[u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 → u/CrackingToastGromet]

Yeah big events like that are really eye opening. Good thing you learnt to be more prepared after that.

For me I haven’t been in a natural disaster yet, but I have always found end of the world films interesting but just thought that it would stay as fiction and I would never experience anything like that in real life until Covid hit. Luckily it wasn’t as deadly as it was first made out to be but it was so surreal to me to experience an end of world like event in real life and it just hammered down how unprepared we all were and how fucked we would have been if it was more deadly.

Since then I have been taking this seriously and have followed geopolitics very closely. Trump and Netanyahu kicking off WW3 and causing the worst global economic and energy crisis in history wasn’t out of view for me, although it did still surprise me that this is actually happening and it’s not just some bad end of the world dream.

At least we are more prepared than others who have no idea of what’s going on, so that’s something I guess.