To be clear, what I mean by actual emergencies is things that are you are likely to encounter where you live. This is different depending on where you live. Preparing for power outages, flood, fire, etc over preparing for nuclear war. Not that there is anything wrong with preparing for nuclear war or zombie apocalypses but this is a stereotype of the "prepper" space that is dumb. There is nothing wrong with being prepared but it is rather foolish to prepare for an unlikely event while not preparing for more likely events like losing your job or water for a few days.