People need to be prepared to go pretty much on your own for several weeks without power and services, minimum.
If you think the government, local, state or federal are going to swoop right in and take care of you, you live in dreamland.
I certainly agree. I know there is some difference in our age but I think we were raised the same way in this regard. The government certainly has programs that may help give you some form of relief over time. But when and how that will apply to you is anyones guess. And maybe it's because my parents grew up in abject poverty that they felt so deeply about it. They grew up in the rural mountains of SE Kentucky at the end of the depression. My dad made it plain to me that the poorest of people were the first to feel the depression and the last to feel the recovery of the depression.
I think we were both raised with the understanding that we should never depend on others to bail us out. Whether that be the government or anyone else for that matter. That we were accountable to ourselves and our families to be prepared and that if we weren't, we had nobody to blame but ourselves. I for one am very thankful I was raised that way and if I were still a betting man I would wager that you are too.