What do you think the biggest threat to Hoosiers is?

[Lars]

I'll adjust this poll as necessary, but I wanted to get a feel for what you are all prepping for.

If you have suggestions on things to add to the poll let me know and I'll get them added to the 2.0 version of this thread.

thanks.

 

[Lars]

In 7 days this poll will Close and I'll open up the second version with your suggestions.

Thanks

 

[MoparMan]

Gotta be Tornados

 

[Andre46996]

I answered as to what I a preparing for... Of course we have our tornados I live in Tornado Alley up here but my prepping would cover that anyway. My biggest fear is what is going to happen when TSHTF and Indy's finest residents and Chicago's finest decide that us coubtry folks have what they need.

I live on a reasonably self-sufficent homestead so a good part of my preps are focused towards survival of my faily and friends and protection of what is mine.

 

[turnandshoot4]

I voted tornados. They come every year.

 

[Joe Williams]

I picked civil unrest. Prepping for that should leave me well prepared for severe winter storms, tornados, and floods, which I think are more likely threats, but not as serious.

Course, I live in a trailer, so if a tornado hits us directly, our supplies (and us along with them) are liable to scattered all over town.

 

[Pami]

I picked civil unrest. Prepping for that should leave me well prepared for severe winter storms, tornados, and floods, which I think are more likely threats, but not as serious.

Course, I live in a trailer, so if a tornado hits us directly, our supplies (and us along with them) are liable to scattered all over town.

I spent 13 of the first 18 years of my life in a mobile home down in Greenwood. The tornado that ripped the roof off the high school and nearby furniture store also knocked one of my mom's friend's trailers on its side. Everything that was in her trailer was neatly planted on the wall instead of the floor... and not even one piece of her china in her china cabinet broke. Of course, her neighbor's trailer was completely flattened. We only lived two streets over and had no damage at all.

Anyway, telling you all that to let you know it's possible your belongings won't be scattered all over town.

 

[ATM]

Pat Bauer didn't make the list?

 

[Bruenor]

While tornadoes are more common, they are mostly limited in scope. Tornadoes can affect a large portion of a state, but more likely they are isolated incidents. Civil unrest, on the other hand, will start in the major metropolitan areas, and then spread out from there along the major lines of travel (I-69, 70, 65), affecting a larger number of people.

Tornadoes are a disaster for families, neighborhoods, and small communities, while civil unrest is a disaster for wide portions of a state or interstate region.

 

[evansvillethompsongunner]

Tornadoes? Those happen all the time. I see a tornado, I know pretty much how to avoid it, even moving at 70, 80mph.

An earthquake, right below my feet?

I'm ******.

And for those of us down here in North Kentucky, we're RIGHT on the New Madrid Fault. So wait for it. This is going to get epic at some point.

 

[hickuleas]

Prepare for everything. But down here in morgan county's tornado alley seems like the wind will get you sooner or later. Most threats to me are similar to prepare for except bio/nuclear and i only no one person who is prepared for that.

 

[Bigum1969]

Earthquake folks.

We could really be tossed back to the stone age, so to speak.

 

[JBusch8899]

Other Man-Made Disaster: Human stupidity.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Liberal Hoosiers posing as conservatives.

Seriously though, either the CX gas that was supposed to be destroyed, an experiment gone awry at Crane, or natural disaster such as tornado/earthquake.

 

[stilllearning09]

Tornado.

 

[schapm]

I said floods. If some of the rivers ever get really our of hand or a dam breaks a lot of folks will be SOL.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I pick tornados, with floods second and man made disaster third. In the time I've worked disaster services and SAR I have responded to a dozen tornados and three floods. I know what is shipped OTR and via rail around and through this state and I am frankly not surprised we haven't had more chem spills/evac. The very first week I worked as an EMT up in Indy was when that f-14 crashed into the Ramada Inn next to the airport. My first experience with a mass casualty incident (though there were surprisingly few casualties).

I don't worry about civil unrest, that's one reason I live in the least populated part of the state.

 

[irishfan]

I voted civil unrest because I feel it is the greater long term threat to deal with. Tornados are a given and I hope to be prepped for them as well but cilvil unrest from financial disaster or natural disaster with lack of food and supplies is something I fear more and a larger long term threat.

 

[ocsdor]

False-flag "terrorist" action carried out by the New World Order, followed by the civil unrest and martial law - tyranny that will be brought upon us.

 

[Woodsman]

My first vote is for tornadoes, followed by floods, and then a man caused disaster also. The first two are the ones that seem to happen with regularity, while the last one could pop-up with little to no warning leaving very little reaction time.