Going back to something Rik said, we have two types of TEOTWAWKI.
High likelihood & low impact (severe winter/flooding preventing delivery of food, water supplies fail, fuel supplies cut back)
Low likelihood & severe impact (total breakdown of civilization due to catastrophic global event - e.g. virus destroys all grass, as in 'Death of Grass' novel).
I used to like some aspects of living on the boat, as we were constantly set up for dealing with scenario 1. All we needed was for a couple of days of very heavy rain and suddenly we couldn't move about as normal, relied on canoes for getting on/off the boat. Usually had couple of month's supply of fuel onboard, ditto drinking water (if we stopped having showers).
Now we are in a house, if the water-mains froze or broke, we wouldn't have drinking water, heating. In winter life would very quickly turn grim indeed. We do have stocks of food, but then again, without gas or water . . . .
High likelihood & low impact (severe winter/flooding preventing delivery of food, water supplies fail, fuel supplies cut back)
Low likelihood & severe impact (total breakdown of civilization due to catastrophic global event - e.g. virus destroys all grass, as in 'Death of Grass' novel).
I used to like some aspects of living on the boat, as we were constantly set up for dealing with scenario 1. All we needed was for a couple of days of very heavy rain and suddenly we couldn't move about as normal, relied on canoes for getting on/off the boat. Usually had couple of month's supply of fuel onboard, ditto drinking water (if we stopped having showers).
Now we are in a house, if the water-mains froze or broke, we wouldn't have drinking water, heating. In winter life would very quickly turn grim indeed. We do have stocks of food, but then again, without gas or water . . . .