Are you ready?

I may or may not have already touched on this topic but it's something ever on my mind so I want to write a little more about it.  Are you ready?  Are you prepared?  What are you prepared for?  How prepared are you?  To me, preparedness is a disease, the more you get prepared for reasonably foreseeable events the more you are able to justify outrageous and fictitious events you need to be prepared for.  But how outrageous are they?  Well, that's relative.  And if it revolves around the government it may not be as outrageous as everyone wants you to think. Living out" I have tried to become more prepared for winter.  I try to cut some wood for fires to heat if the electricity goes out.  Sure I have gas heat, but the blower is electric.  I am working on wiring a generator for events whent he power is out.  I got a four wheel drive truck, I bought a tool box to carry a chainsaw in my truck in case i encounter fallen trees on my way home or to work.  Which is not all that unusual where I live in the winter.  But then I start thinking farther ahead.  What happens if we are out of power for weeks? Well I need to start stock piling gas and maybe some food.  What if my trucks motor or tranny blows?  Well I should have an extra drive train just in case.  What if we get in a war and someone drops a nuke? Maybe I should be working on a bomb shelter.  If I make a bomb shelter it needs to have it's own self sufficiency like a natural gas powered generator, means to cook, food stock piled and some weapons.  On and on it goes in my head until I'm like woah! Wait a minute there dude! If the shit hits the fan on that level, I may just wish I were dead.  Maybe I'll just let the nuke get me.  I mean seriously though?  When is prepared, prepared enough?  It's hard for me to be reasonable about it.  It's probably a daily struggle for me but growing up we were never prepared for a damned thing.  We always were waiting for the guy with a chainsaw to come along and cut out the tree, or always borrowing or fixing a generator.  I don't want to be in these circumstances now that I'm an adult.  I want to be ready.  I just need to learn to be ready within reason.