Originally Posted by CDSmith

Really? I can think of several scenarios, not the least of which is some sort of economic crisis which would cause major disruptions to all the services most of us take for granted. Put it this way, in the event of widespread civil unreast (and we've seen it in the news several times just in the past few years, in the NY area, in Japan, in S.E. Asia with the tsunami to name a few) you local grocery store shelves would be picked clean in a matter of hours, not days.

Other causes:

Natural disaster (bad storm, tornado, flood,...)
Economic collapse, depression (your area may not be prone to earthquakes but I can assure you it isn't immune from a bad economy)
War (same as above, anyone who thinks it can't happen where they are is fooling themselves)


Many people on the US eastern seaboard this past winter experienced first-hand the need to survive for not just five days but WEEKS, without power.

Thus there's nothing wrong at all with someone having the preparedness that dyna is describing.