It's both misunderstood and understood.

Ex. Given a 9 year old article, we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now." --- nobody cares is easy falsified --- but then we confirm it and attribute it to "human nature". (which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring about something they care about it)

But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people. Despite the fact it has been posted no less than 25 times.

I'd also secretly train kids for rapid escape: "Surprise trip! Let's see how fast we can get in the van! Gogogo!" After that, secretly train for not-unlikely exceptions, like the road is blocked, between us and higher ground or our bugout location.

If the big one hits, do you think you’ll be able to drive anywhere, or will the roads be so destroyed and traffic so bad you’ll just get gridlocked in?

Where do you plan to drive to?

Once you run out of food, water and gas what are your plans?

I’ve driven through some of the least developed and most dangerous countries on earth (DRC, Sudan, Mali, etc) in my personal vehicles and I’m always curious if people have really thought it through, or just surface level

i.e. everyone says gas vehicles are better than EVs in a disaster, because you don’t rely on the power grid. I’ve waited days in a line to buy gasoline because there was no power to pump it out of the ground.