The trouble with a major disruption is that crime rates go through the roof. (In the worst-case scenario, you get roving bands of raiders.) How does preparing with a well-stocked kitchen help if a bunch of armed hooligans show up?<p>I don't prepare for the worst, simply because the worst is so unthinkable; I'm not prepared to shoot looters.
I can understand wanting supplies to survive some natural disaster that cuts you off from civilization for a couple of weeks. But I can't understand wanting to survive the fall of civilization itself. That would make 1994 Rwanda look like a care bear picnic, and I'm not going out of my way to spend a long futile lifetime experiencing it.