Perhaps you mean MENTALLY prepared? Yes, I am ready, I expect catastrophe every day. My plan is to die quickly to avoid unnecessary suffering.
Very simple stuff, not really a “kit” exactly.
About 2 weeks food, if it’s carefully rationed. Weak first-aid supplies.
BIG bags o’ tea candles (really! they’re cheap, and you’ll find out that you want LOTS of candles, not one long-burning thing that goes on for a year). Not as many spare batteries as I should, maybe. Lotsa flashlites, shortwave radio.
Lots of water! Hot water heater be damned, I keep a few gallons of frozen solid plastic quart bottles! Cold drinks for me longer than for the rest of you!
ABC fire extinguishers, both apartment & car. In car: warm clothing, blanket, jumpers, gas can, 25k bag of salt. Some tools.
Legal crap? Fireproof box.
Self-defense: blind hope, and a sword (actually, that’s not why I got the sword).
Earthquake, tornado, ice storm? Can’t imagine what you mean; I’ve NEVER been through any of those. >:(
Oh, and some of you have yet to take up smoking. This is VERY effective at making sure you ALWAYS have reliable flame-making devices on your person. 
Yes, canned food, freeze-dried food, water, water purification supplies (MSR MiniWorks filter, and a SteriPen UV sterilizer), light, (candles, oil lamp, flourescent lantern, and a buncha’ flashlights) first-aid kit, firestarting supplies, and a “Bug-Out-Bag” ready to grab-n-go
Another advantage of being an aquarist is that I have a total of almost 50 gallons of water spread between 4 aquariums in addition to the water already being stored, so in the event of an emergency, all I have to do is pump the water out through the MSR MiniWorks, then sterilize it with the SteriPen
Funny but true. Neither hubby nor I still smoke, so when we had a blackout a couple of years ago, we had candles everywhere but not a single lighter or book of matches! :eek:
Got that covered now! 
Yup. Large but liftable box of supplies in the garage near the camping gear and a spare bag of cat litter. Smaller box with 2 days’ food, some liquid, a light, an emergency blanket, spare socks, thermal undershirt, can opener in each vehicle. We rotate the supplies every winter solstice. Also, enough canned and boxed food in the pantry for 2-3 weeks depending how it went.
[Hijack]
We read Alas, Babylon in high school. Part of the exercise was to notice the anachronisms, such as ‘White Only’ water fountains and how they were unimportant in the setting. I remember something abut making whiskey, but I don’t remember all it entailed. Something about it being illegal, but being necessary for… something. Fuel? Medicine? Trade?
It’s been far too long since I’ve read this book. I’m going to have to find a copy.
Yes.
Oh, yeah. Being paranoid and living in an earthquake zone, it would be idiotic not to be prepared (I can see the San Andreas Fault from my kitchen window.)
We have at least a month’s food on hand at all times (MREs, canned, freeze-dried and just a well-stocked pantry). There is cat food and litter for at least that long. Propane grill outside, Coleman stoves, several tanks of fuel, candles, batteries, hygiene supplies, medicines and the like are well-stocked. There is at least 30 gallons of potable water in jugs outside, and we rotate a supply of oil and gasoline in the shed for bug-out purposes. The truck has a 2-stage kit in it, along with a light trauma kit.
If the Martians land or the peasants revolt, I am also slightly better armed than Ecuador. This makes running out of supplies much less of a problem. After all, there are always yours.
Oh, silenus, you dork. Do you really think that mere weaponry can scare off us crazy people? HAHAHAHAHA
But what about the emergency bug out scotch supply?
[hijack] Right after the '94 quake hit, I went around the neighborhood with a stack of Dixie cups and a bottle of bourbon. I was considered a hero that morning. [/hijack]
The moonshine was used as trade goods and as a disinfectant by Dr. Gunn. It required the sacrifice of the radiator tubing from Randy’s Buick.
Rick, the scotch supply might be a loss in a 6+ earthquake. They are stored on a shelf that isn’t all that stable. But the bourbon is stored low, so it isn’t like we’ll be totally without the necessities.
Food, water, candles, matches, battery operated lamb, battery operated CD/radio/audio TV Player, and batteries. Put together after the Big Blackout. Good thing too cause my electricity went off two weeks ago.
Not at all.
I consciously choose not to let my mind dwell on negative scenarios ever.
Although, there is a smoke detector in my house.
Being only slightly further north than you, I have little of such.
A few tins of beans, small tool kit, some plasters and ibuprofen, smoke alarm but no extinguisher, that’s about it.
I live on the side of a mountain, and am without power for a week or two every winter. The longest we’ve gone consecutively without power is 5 days. When a blizzard hits, the road is often impassible for a day or two at a stretch.
I have wood heat. The water heater runs off propane, and the tank holds enough propane to last about a year. The water pump + freezer are the only things that run off AC that I would be uncomfortable without, but I’ve got a generator and I wired in a transfer switch when I built the house, so it’s just a matter of running that every 4 or 5 hours to keep the fridge cold and fill the pressure tank. I always keep a rotating supply of at least 4 galons of gas, and I’ve got a siphon to get more out of the cars.
I’m set even if the generator dies, since when we lose power for an extended period it’s usually in the winter. I have coolers in the shed to move the food from the fridge/freezer into. I can get water directly off the well head, as it’s an artesian source, and just heat it on the wood stove.
We probably have enough food on hand at any time to last a month without rationing, and I know enough to live off the land anyway. We can cook on the woodstove. The gas grill has 60 - 80 lb of propane on hand at all times, and I have an old coleman stove with about 4 galons of white gas.
I have a sizable collection of firearms and ammo. I know the basics of butchering.
I have many flashlights and always have batteries in the charger. I could probably use these for a week without recharging. I have lanterns that will run off parafin oil, propane, fuel oil, and gasoline. I have a hand cranked radio and flashlight, and the wife has a metric assload of assorted candles. The car also has weather band radio.
I know basic first aid, and have a first aid kit that is extensive enough to stitch up pretty serious wounds.
Barring a direct meteor strike, I think I’m set.
Not only am I prepared (emergency kit, fire extinguishers, crank radio, flashlights hanging on several interior doorknobs, etc, plus a smaller version in the car), I made sure my family and close friends are also prepared by giving them all emergency kits of their own the Christmas before last.
Good gift idea if you’re struggling to think of something.
I have most of your basic supplies, plus camping gear and a generator. But it’s not all located in one place where I could grab-and-go if we had to evacuate.
When the shit hits the fan the Americans are gonna be okay, us lazy Europeans are gonna be up the creek without a prayer.
Absolutely.
I grew up in Key West, where hurricane preparedness is part of the elementary school curriculum. The linen closet holds at least 3 weeks worth of necessities and comforts, all meticulously rotated every Spring. Except water-- I have a couple of PUR hand pumps and some antimicrobial chemicals, but when a storm approaches we all fill up jerrycans, and lots of milk jugs, and cola bottles, and the washing machine, and the bathtub . . .
When Ivan blasted through here in 2004 the bridges on either side of my little town were closed, so we were isolated for several days and without electricity for over 2 weeks. The only thing I ran out of was coffee, due to sharing it with all and sundry. It was too hot to run the Coleman stove indoors, so we made coffee on the front porch every morning. The smell wafted through the neighborhood and soon there’d be a party in our front yard. We made a lot of new friends. 
Now at any given time I have 15 pounds of coffee stashed away.
If we all went home with our bits and pieces to our parents’ house, we might do better.
More food in tins, two cars and two motorbikes (of dubious reliability) and a little petrol in cans, camping gear, gas canisters with hob and heater and slightly more medical equipment.
The house is on a hill above the town in case of floods and just near a road out of town uphill to avoid the rush should we need to flee, I don’t know, zombies I guess.
And if it all gets too much, we can flee across the Irish border, maybe in a mini “Day After Tomorrow” scenario 