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You don't have to be a "paranoid prepper" to be ready for a Cat 4 hurricane while living in an area most prone to them.

I'm sure the paranoid prepped is there. But the nature of being a paranoid prepped is that he or she is holed up and not coming out to talk/share.

Now probably wouldn't be a good time to go wandering across other people's land

Since Maria and Irma, I have been thinking about how I can make my house self-suficient. Water storage is becoming cheap, and I hope solar will also become affordable when Tesla solar roof will be sold outside the US.

Water storage is important, especially in case of a radioactive event, but for most cases you probably want a water filter, such as a Life Straw. You can probably filter more water than you can store (unless you have a very large water tank).

If they are, they're not going to go around bragging about it.