With a cyclone coming, how prepared are you and your neighbourhood actually?
Not trying to be alarmist/dooms dayish but the current circumstances have me considering some things.
NZ civil defence recommends every household keep at least 3 days of food and water minimum. Their reasoning is because that’s roughly the window before supply chains get critical in a crisis.
We seem to be pretty used to things just working. Super markets restocked, water, power, transport etc. so it got me questioning - how quickly can society organise themselves should supply chains/infrastructure be disrupted for a considerable time. We saw a glimpse with Covid. People panic buying, logistics reduced.
What would happen should fuel become scarce. (I know not likely but as a hypothetical)
From my own review, I don’t have any real contingencies organised. With heavy populated areas, would we all have access to enough essentials for a long duration? Where would I get food from once stock levels have depleted. So it’s got me questioning what does my area actually have. How many people are on tank, who has medical training, a generator. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say most of us have no idea what our community resilience is. For example who knows the caloric requirements of their local community.
A bit extreme I know but for Aucklanders - do you feel confident in your street/suburbs collective capacity and self preparation or is everyone just individually plan to figure it out on the night.