A quality firearm belongs in every emergency kit IMHO, although legal hurdles may exist. For example, a Hi-Point carbine isn't elegant, but it works.
Yes, I have ponchos. Little is more miserable than being cold and wet. It can also kill you.
And yes, there is a huge difference between a 3-day bug-out bag, a 3-week stockpile, and what effectively amounts to an abandonment of society as we know it kit. If you think that last one is a possible need, pre-positioning caches may be will be necessary. Practice gardening now, too, because it is not easy. But hunter/gatherers have also existed across the planet, so a more nomadic existence may figure into your schemes. Beasts of burden help, as might boats, solar-powered electric vehicles (maybe), and bicycles (definitely).
Starting the garden, our here in the desert, is the harder thing for me. Turning dirt into soil.
Then you have to learn the bugs in your area and what to do about them.
I wish i was in a permanent place so i could really build my garden permanently.
I really wish ponchos had become dress attire. So versatile.
I used to be so into "bug out" prep... but my current thoughts are, bug out where?
When you need to bug out, will also be the time when rural people become highly suspicious of everyone else. A real conundrum.
So, we should all be bugging out now... but where?
We aren't even to the point where the battle lines are being drawn.
But when the war does go hot, it will seem as a blink of the eye.
I know Washington is going to break away... but will that be all of Washington state? Or just the west half, because the east half decided to join Idaho?