As many as 3.7 million Americans are classified as preppers or survivalists. Being a "doomsday prepper" is not easy -- or cheap. These people prepare for different disasters for different reasons.

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My impressions of emergency survival mostly come from Hollywood. Think eccentric rich guys like Anthony Hopkins in The Edge, or the militia-minded survivalists in Tremors. Then there’s the sensational ...

Joshua Wander has been a committed “prepper” — that is, a disaster preparedness enthusiast — his whole adult life. A volunteer EMT, Wander was first inspired to take prepping seriously as he found ...

Late last year, a New England town was devastated by Superstorm Sandy, then bombarded by a Nor’easter. When desperate residents made their way to the area’s Federal Emergency Management Agency office ...