SouthernUnderGod
Well-Known Member
Who uses ATMs anymore? Besides, most banks have two or three ATMs outside nowadays. It's unlikely that all will go down. Plus there are always other ATMs at other banks that you could drive to.
And I don't go to stores frequently. If the power goes out and I was in line to check-out, I'd just leave. But where I live, power rarely goes out as literally everything has underground power.
ATMs? Don’t go to stores? Power?
Were you around for Katrina and Gustav? I live in the geographic center of Baton Rouge and I lost power in both. Eight days for Katrina and 11 from Gustav.
We had no Internet, no cell service, some landlines, no cash and people were driving 2 hours to wait in multi hour lines to get gas.
Since then there have been some improvements to harden communications and power, but when the 100KV+ transmission lines to your city get destroyed there are bad results.
Without power many stores were closed and ones that were open could only take cash - no internet. You couldn’t get gas unless you had cash and you had to find somewhere that had gas and had power. You couldn’t get cash because the banks were closed and the ATMs were down.
Your food goes bad, you worry about having enough cash, you are hot, frustrated and bored. Real information is sketchy.
Then you find out about the looting and rioting. Will it happen to you? Do you have enough ammunition? Are you in a defensible location?
Hotels were filled up in all directions for hundreds of miles.
For the future I hope people have a plan for what they will do the next time there’s no internet, no power, no gas, no banking and no stores. It WILL happen again.
Sadly, 14 years later people are MORE dependent on technology.
We shook our heads at the people who asked “when is the government coming to help me?”
Every “thinking person” should have a plan. Include self-defense in the plan.
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