What happens when disaster strikes and the stores run out and you only have 2 weeks of store bought food in the pantry/freezer in winter?

I think prepping is prudent if you are capable, just like you should prep for winter and spring when there will be little to no harvesting going on. Just don't rely on it as your salvation, because it can spoil and be stolen. So few people garden enough to rarely rely on grocery stores such that they'd need to save up a couple season's worth of food. What happens when disaster strikes and the stores run out and you only have 2 weeks of store bought food in the pantry/freezer in winter?

Great points.  According to a paraphrase of the old adage, you can prepare as though everything depends on you while realizing that everything, including any ability / inclination you have to prep now, depends on God.  I've thought about what it would be like during a truly SHTF scenario.  If I have chickens in my backyard, and the general population are starving, how long before they're stolen?  Would I be willing to shoot desperate/starving people trying to steal them?  Do I have enough ammo?  Would they then come in a mob and simply attack and overwhelm me and my family?  If I'm running a generator while everyone else is without power, I will be noticed.  So, unless someone has some large acreage in the middle of nowhere, it would be prudent to find some low-key types of preps that would not be noticed and which could be hidden well.  I believe that gold/money would be worthess, since you can't eat them, and people would trade pounds of gold (if they had it) for a loaf of bread.  Cigarettes, IMO, would become the closest thing to a "currency" during such times.  In addition, the government has been known to outlaw "hoarding", to make gold illegal (confiscate it), etc.  So if things get bad enough, preps might be worthless.  You'd probably even have desperate starving crowds going out into the country looking for farm animals to kill.  I think that many preppers underestimate the amount of violence and "mob rule" that will come about when millions of people have missed a few days' worth of meals in a row.  I also believe that whatever scenario comes about will have been engineered by the government, and the government will set up some food distribution centers (after a lengthy period of mob rule), making it so that only those who have complied with various mandates (taking another jab) or social credit requirements are eligible to receive food.  Our perception about how people would behave when many millions are starving are probably not correct.  It'll probably look like the BLM/Antifa riots ... except they'll be ubiquitous and not just taking place in little pockets as they did before.  And if you have anything, you're much more likely to be targetted than if you're starving like everyone else.  Others have these fantasies that if they have enough guns and ammo they can fight off the crowds, but enough people coming at you at the same time, people desperate enough to risk their lives for food, will quickly overwhelm you, and if that doesn't work, they'll set your home on fire out of spite.  So the best thing would be to remain as hidden and "low-key" as possible with your preps.

My heart bleeds for you!!!!

I like the flexibility of the dual fuel propane/gasoline generators and try to store propane.  Benefit of propane is that it can store forever without degrading like gasoline would.  You could get a large propane tank that's big enough to provide for an entire home, but I've opted for 30-lb tanks because they're portable and can be moved around.  Of course, generators are noisy ... unless you get a solar-charged battery bank with an inverter, but the solar panels needed to keep those charged can be prohibitively expensive.  I would mostly use the propane for hot water, cooking, and heating in emergencies, dealing without electricity for scenarios where the attention from the noise would be not be desirable.  Yes, Florida could be tough without A/C, but short of having a $20K solar setup, your only option would be a generator (and those are all noisy).

There are some that advertise being very quiet ... but I'm not sure what that means, and if people see that you have lights when everyone else is in the dark, that could be a giveaway.

https://www.harborfreight.com/5000-watt-dual-fuel-super-quiet-inverter-generator-with-remote-start-and-co-secure-technology-70143.html

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Pulsar-9-500-Watt-Super-Quiet-Dual-Fuel-Inverter-Generator-with-CO-Alert-and-Remote-Start-PGD95BISCO/323778414

They claim to be around 70 decibels, which they say is about the sound of an average washing machine.