[CaptainCrunch]

What kind of an emergency are we talking about, one that just effects you or your family? Or one that effects society as a whole.

Because for you and your family, ie flood, fire, the emergency plan is to make sure that your car runs, you have a place to stay or money to take care of lodging and food.

If its societal where we're talking the imminent collapse of society as you know it, the end of the rule of law, the end of health and law enforcement services, the rules completely change.

Murder, pillaging and foraging will become the rule of the day, and if your house is in the middle of a city, the best plan is to flee before all of the secondary death factors occur.

Accidents that would normally be survivable. Disease caused my mass rotting bodies. Roving bands of jerks.

The best plan is to have a bolt hole as far from society as possible to wait it out until either order is restored and services are restored, or until your neighbour becomes the reigning war lord of the apocalypse and he likes you enough to join as long as your wife becomes a member of his harem.

When Stephen King wrote the Stand, he wrote this amazing chapter of what happened right after Captain Tripps ended society, and the people that were immune were killed off by minor infections, minor accidents, and major cases of the stupids.