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But that hasn\u2019t stopped him from preparing for one. Thirteen years ago, after reading William Forstchen\u2019s \u201cOne Second After,\u201d a novel about a post-apocalyptic America, he decided the apocalypse was probably worth preparing for.\n\n\n\nNow, Charles is ready for just about anything. Well, almost anything.\n\n\n\n\u201cThose are things that you just hope don\u2019t happen because there is no preparing for it. You know, being sucked into a black hole, we\u2019re all pretty much dead,\u201d he told The Post.\n\n\n\nJason Charles, an FDNY firefighter and longtime emergency preparedness enthusiast. Stefano Giovannini for NY Post\n\n\n\nHis preparedness has even made its way to YouTube, where he runs a channel devoted to doomsday prepping for other New Yorkers, recently posting a video in which he called AI\u2019s threat to humanity \u201cthe most asinine thing going on right now.\u201d\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re developing a God AI that is undoubtedly going to destroy humanity and the entire world,\u201d he said in the video.\u00a0\n\n\n\nStill, Charles is preparing for the worst.\u00a0\n\n\n\nHe\u2019s made the most of every inch of his apartment, adding shelves and filling closets \u2014 and eventually renting a storage unit \u2014 to accommodate a year\u2019s worth of supplies, from freeze-dried food to a water jug and a solar power generator.\n\n\n\nIf and when doomsday comes, Charles will have handheld radios to help him communicate with others. If cell phone signals are still up, he said he will try to text whoever he can \u2014 and hope for the best. \n\n\n\nAs for the rest of his apocalypse stash, he\u2019s keeping that under wraps.\n\n\n\nCharles packing his doomsday prep bag in his Manhattan apartment. Stefano Giovannini for NY Post\n\n\n\n\u201cIf you\u2019re serious about prepping, you\u2019re gonna make room for the food that you need and not the crap that you can\u2019t use during the apocalypse,\u201d he pointed out.\n\n\n\nAcross the country, preppers like Charles are bracing for an ever-expanding list of threats \u2014 from hurricanes and pandemics to cyberattacks, AI gone awry and economic collapse \u2014 stockpiling food, water and gear they believe could keep them alive when modern life grinds to a halt.\n\n\n\nSome of prepper Larry\u2019s gun collection, including common firearms like a pistol and a rifle Courtesy Larry\n\n\n\nBut while Charles is preparing for catastrophe on a grand scale, North Carolina resident Carmen has a very different threat in mind.\n\n\n\nShe started preparing for disasters about a decade ago, after moving with her family from the Plains to hurricane country.\n\n\n\nCarmen, who\u2019s in her 40s, calls herself a \u201cTuesday prepper\u201d \u2014 not someone expecting the world to end, but someone preparing for \u201cthat random but inevitable day where something bad happens but you expect to eventually recover from it.\u201d\u00a0\n\n\n\nAs extreme weather became a growing concern, she started researching survival strategies and stockpiling supplies.\n\n\n\nHer first step was modest: a \u201cdisaster box\u201d filled with a couple of days\u2019 worth of food, extra batteries and other essentials. Feeling safer from the worsening natural disasters elsewhere, she let her guard down.\n\n\n\nCarmen from North Carolina has tubs of food stored up Courtesy Carmen\n\n\n\nThat changed in September 2024 when Hurricane Helene tore through the region, leaving Carmen and her family with little information about the roads, no GPS, no maps and no extra fuel for their car.\n\n\n\nShe never wanted to be caught that unprepared again.\n\n\n\nThat\u2019s when the real prepping began.\n\n\n\nLarry, a doomsday prepper preparing for war, climate chaos and the apocalypse, is pictured in Florida. Courtesy Larry\n\n\n\nLarry stores his meat in refrigerators in case of a catastrophe Courtesy Larry\n\n\n\nWhile most of her family remains \u201cless interested,\u201d Carmen has doubled down.\n\n\n\n\u201cMy goal is for my household to have the food, water, power, and other supplies to be self-sufficient through a crisis like that, which both protects us and allows humanitarian aid to be directed to people who need it more,\u201d she told The Post.\n\n\n\nAs a result, she has stored water, long-term food buckets, a deep pantry stocked with canned goods, a solar battery system and both indoor and outdoor gardens.\n\n\n\nKansas resident Abigail no longer thinks prepping is for \u201cthe crazies\u201d after she decided to become one two years ago.\n\n\n\nAfter tensions ran high during the 2024 presidential election, the 36-year-old began fearing that the country could eventually descend into a geopolitical civil war.\n\n\n\nCarmen started planting herbs and stockpiling canned goods for the future Courtesy Carmen\n\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019m afraid of a nuclear attack, or a cyber attack on the electric grid, or even a high-altitude EMP which would absolutely cripple the US and render it nearly defenseless to a ground invasion,\u201d she told The Post.\n\n\n\nTwo other threats have fueled her anxiety: extreme wealth inequality and climate change, leaving her with what she describes as a \u201cpersistent feeling of impending doom.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cI have two children and I am terrified for their future. And the one thing that is impossible to ignore or escape \u2014 global warming is very real and most likely won\u2019t be able to be reversed. I believe now that the human race won\u2019t survive another 100 years. I think we\u2019ll be lucky to make it that far,\u201d Abigail said.\n\n\n\nSo she\u2019s trying to prepare for whatever comes next \u2014 starting in her own backyard.\n\n\n\nAbigail has built a garden with various veggies and has enough freeze-dried food to feed her family of four for a couple of months while steadily building her supply of dehydrated and canned goods.\n\n\n\n\u201cMost of my tax return went towards prepping supplies,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cI purchased a small power station with a solar panel for charging things like phones and flashlights a year ago. When I got my tax return, I bought a larger power station with two 200-watt solar panels.\u201d\n\n\n\nAbigail, another prepper, is preparing for war, climate chaos and the apocalypse. Courtesy Abigail\n\n\n\nHer stockpile also includes first-aid supplies, hygiene products, menstrual cups for herself and her daughter, wool socks, window insulation, an electric heated mattress pad, gardening and home-repair books, rain barrels, solar-powered flashlights and lanterns, water-storage jugs and a four-terabyte hard drive packed with how-to PDFs and other books.\n\n\n\nFor Abigail, prepping isn\u2019t simply about accumulating supplies. It\u2019s about building the skills \u2014 and the community \u2014 she believes will matter when \u201csh** hits the fan.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cMy friends, some of them feel as if we are totally and completely f***ed no matter what we do, and so haven\u2019t bothered to prepare for anything at all,\u201d she revealed. \u201c[But] I firmly believe that if or when things get bad, each person\u2019s likelihood of survival will depend on the strength of their community.\u201d\n\n\n\nThat emphasis on preparedness as a practical, learned skill is shared by Larry, a 70-year-old Navy veteran, who retired in 2002 after 22 years of service and sees prepping as an extension of the skills he learned in the military \u2014 as well as a matter of common sense.\n\n\n\nLarry keeps Tesla batteries, radios and other tech Courtesy Larry\n\n\n\n\u201cThe basic premise of prepping is like being a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout,\u201d Larry told The Post.\u00a0\n\n\n\nWhile some folks are bracing for nuclear EMPs, economic collapse or even the zombie apocalypse, Larry is preparing for a more immediate threat: extreme weather.\n\n\n\nLike Carmen, his family was affected by a hurricane \u2014 and he never wanted to be caught without power again. So when he built his new home, he installed a whole-house generator and reinforced it with plenty of cinder block.\n\n\n\nHe\u2019s got food and water covered, too.\n\n\n\n\u201cWe have a well, and we have septic,\u201d the Navy vet told The Post. \u201cAnd with the generator backup, then my 400 gallons of fuel \u2014 even running 24/7 \u2014 we would probably last a week and a half to two weeks.\u201d\n\n\n\nLarry is essentially already living off-grid, as he depends on solar and his Tesla batteries for his home, claiming his electricity bill is only $15.\n\n\n\nAbigail keeps a log of all of her inventory to keep organized Courtesy Abigail\n\n\n\nThe Boomer insisted he is ready for anything as his supplies list consists of pantries full of food, freeze-dried meals, five-gallon jerry cans \u2014 containers to hold water \u2014 and weapons, lots of them.\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat I have is I have at least one pistol and one rifle in the most common calibers. That would be a \u201822, \u201845 and a nine millimeter,\u201d he told The Post.\n\n\n\nLarry also has an AR-1556, 12 gauge shotgun and an M14.\u00a0\n\n\n\n\n\u201cThat\u2019ll pretty much take down a moose,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n\n\n\nFor Roman V. Yampolskiy, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Louisville\u2019s Speed School of Engineering, these various kinds of preparation are worth taking seriously.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe strange thing is not that some people are preparing. 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