Tents in Emergencies

If you want a tent for an emergency get it.  If you need a walled tent or a pop-up self standing family of four tent, get it.  Here are some thoughts:

I have never had to rely on any tent nor have been in any disaster but I can pass along what I have seen and learned from others. They did not need tents in the fire evacuations of Utah in 2020. They did not need tents in the California fires of 2018. They did not need tents in Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They did not need tents in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California. They did not need tents in the 2011 tsunami in Japan. I have seen tents used in the Middle East for refugee camps. But in the US, the only time I have seen little pop-up tents used were in an evacuation center where it allowed people a semblance of privacy to change, to sleep and security. Truly your best resource is to live temporarily with family and friends for sanity, sanitation and psychological reasons. But we have tents to go camping in and can use them in a disaster, but really, that just hasn't happened in my lifetime, my parents, grand parents or great-great-great..... However your circumstances and vision maybe different than others. If you feel the need to have a tent, never suppress a kind feeling or intuition. Someone else may have had a different experience or seen something I have not and welcome their opinion and feedback. Ok, I have to add, if your spouse wants a wall tent, then why stop there, everyone who ever evacuates wishes they had a camper/trailer. Now go forth and spend $20,000-$30,000 and you will be prepared to sleep in your home on wheels or on the road. Go big! Maybe that wall tent or pop up doesn't sound so bad now