I feel like people prep not to actually accomplish anything but to just feel better about the situation and calm some internal fears they have. Like sure have a bag ready but if something goes wrong quickly you need to actually be able to get to that bag. Like people who leave a loaded gun in the kitchen in case of intruders, well what happens if they come in the kitchen window while you're on the toilet ?

Not to mention, what can people even take ? If a wildfire threatened my area most people don't have their own vehicles and would be fucked. That's not even considering all the tourists that got bussed in. So I could take a few extra people if they each have a small bag. I don't know how many people in Houston own their own vehicles, I imagine it's better than here, but well off people hang out with each other. The people who don't own vehicles probably know a few more who don't and only have a few friends with them.

I don't think it's cool to really look for reasons to place blame on individual's if they didn't know how prepared to be or were told about the area they lived in. People move where opportunity is and honestly you can only be so prepared. It's not going to be the well off healthy people they find dead.