Emergency Management Vs Prepping: Is there a difference?

When discussing an aspect of Emergency Management, one of the key areas is preparation. While it is all fine and dandy to have preparation plans in place at the local, state and federal level, the reaction is much different at the home level. While many people are preppers, few actually are brave enough to speak about it in public. I'm pretty sure that we can thank "Doomsday Preppers" and David Koresh for that wonderful reputation that proceeds the term.

Truth is, you don't have to have to have an underground bunker and a room full of Wise food to be a prepper. (Although, I must confess, the more food that you do have, the better you will be when the time comes.) It is also NOT a bad idea to have a stock of food, water and things you find valuable (toilet paper, anyone?) because if you find yourself in the situation where the basic foundation of our infrastructure are gone (think hurricane, tornado, blizzard, etc) you cannot rely on the federal government. Why?

Government has always existed to create the lines for the box that is our society.  That being said, when an emergency management event happens, government does not care about you. Government's first job is to get those basic necessities of life back online. Such as, Electricity, Infrastructure (roads, waste disposal) and law and order. However, people have gotten the idea in their head that government exist to take care of them personally, which means they don't believe they are responsible for their own care. Sadly this is false. Government response to emergency situations is to get the box cleaned out and working again first, then to work to get people back to a state of normalcy after. You have to be prepared. I will touch on basic supplies in relation to location in future post, the summery of this post is to tell you that Emergency Management and Prepping are one in the same.