My recommendation to any of these prepper types is to do sort of a disaster recovery plan dry run - actually take a week vacation or something like that and sim

My recommendation to any of these prepper types is to do sort of a disaster recovery plan dry run - actually take a week vacation or something like that and simulate the disaster you're planning for. So turn off the power, water, and internet and just live your plan for a bit and see how it goes. If you really want to prep, try it in a few different seasons. You'll likely discover practical issues that you can fix, but you might also find psychological issues could come up, though being free to end the simulation at any time might make it more fun than depressing. I've never done the above on purpose, but as someone who definitely has some innate prepper curiosity built in, I can say that actually living through a disaster of the sort above really disabused me of a lot of notions. You can prep for a lot, but the thought of actually trying to live through some sort of long term apocalypse is too depressing to contemplate, though perhaps that's just my perspective as someone used to living in relative affluence.