Glad to have found this forum and notice a few of my MSE buddies over here
My prepping started when I moved to a remote area about 9 years ago and just wanted a few bits in the car just in case of emergency - M11 snow anyone?! Since then i've become more aware of potential situations in which I would far rather be prepared than not even though I am not in a remote area anymore.
Unfortunately nobody that I know (that I am aware of) has any kind of store of food, and most live week to week and have empty cupboards by the time they go shopping
Their attitude is that a) nothing will happen here 
b) we live near shops so we will be ok They cannot comprehend that they may lose electricity/water/gas for anything more than a couple of hours and they have no idea that all these systems rely on computers and therefore are fragile resources! I am by no means well prepared (only got water for a couple of days but have food for probably a month or more, no BOB or BOL), but plan to be so all the advice on here will be great.
Happy Prepping
