Now normally I wouldn't admit to being into self reliance and preparedness as I'd either be seen as a freak, or most likely I'd get the response like "Well, if things go bad we're all coming over to your place". What's scary is they actually mean it.
Yes, I do prepare for the unexpected. I have a veg garden and can bake my own bread. I have mountains of equipment all suitable for a protracted stay in primitive conditions. I have a British Berkfeld ceramic water filter large enough for a family and have a grain mill for making flour from wheat.
It's geared around staying put and weathering the storm (or whatever) at home, simply because we are most comfortable at home. We'd only bug out as a last resort. In which case we have contingency plans for dealing with that. In the event of evacuation, we have agreed meet up places in case the brown stuff comes into contact with the oscillating cooling device when we are out separately and don't get the chance to talk to each other. These are unlikely, but have been discussed with immediate family, then salted away in deep memory and forgotten about.
The most likely thing I'm prepared for is storm disruption, industrial disruption (national strike etc), unexpected unemployment or redundancy, and other everyday happenings which disrupt the normal comings and goings I am used to.
If the lights went out we could see well enough with tilley lamps and normal oil lamps, keep warm and cook food on our solid fuel fire (Parkray), sleep warm in our beds and know that we can manage quite well for at least a month. I have a petrol generator to keep the freezers working so food will not spoil and about four dozen Kilner jars and two part lids and a pressure canner. If it were a protracted emergency, all the meat in the freezers could be cooked up and canned and would be good for a couple of years like that.
So yes, I do prepare and have all the angles covered for my environment in the part of the world in which I live.
Eric