Anyone who dismisses disaster preparedness as something only requiring "focus on community" sorely needs a read of HN's Zalewski/lcamtuf's Practical Doomsday bo

Anyone who dismisses disaster preparedness as something only requiring "focus on community" sorely needs a read of HN's Zalewski/lcamtuf's Practical Doomsday book[0]. It is ironic that should some type of Hurricane Katrina situation befall their neighborhood, they'll be the first in line begging their "doomer prepper" neighbors for their 50gal drum of water and bowl of rice after the first few days. It's also bewildering that software engineers who spend their 9-5 trying to imagine and calculate likelihood of the possible faults and risk in their computer systems fail to extrapolate that to any real world problems, but I guess the human experience of "never happened to me yet, not a problem" is stronger. [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718502125/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718502125/