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If I would have just spent a few short years of full-time effort preparing for natural disaster, that would have made the biggest difference in hindsight.

More so than buying a handful of bitcoins as a novelty when they were only $1 for instance.

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Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-YEa9ykEs

[fuzzfactor]

Excellent choice :)

But not exactly. I was thinking more like facilities enhancement and having insurance in a lot better balance and strength than I had :\

Although after the flood(s) the survival rations at work do ring a bell now.

I still had a laboratory refrigerator for chemicals, but when I was on my own I didn't get another one for office food supplies for quite a while. I would still pick up plenty of snacks every week but mostly non-refrigerated except for a few things that would fit on ice in a cooler, and I wasn't going back for more ice again the same week.

Things like a gallon of milk were only a fraction more money than a half-gallon, but they would outlast the ice and still be good toward the end of the week once the ice had all melted, when it was still somewhat cool water in the ice chest. But not for very long after that. So on a regular basis I would consume more toward the end of the week than I would the first few days. Stepping up to the plate to get the cooler ready to dry out for Monday. Just reaching the "end-of-the-line" more frequently than the doomsday approach in the Office video :)