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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have the following as an emergency kit.

Case of water 
Flashlights and batteries. 
Case of granola bars 
Cash 
first aid kit

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I always see cash listed. Is that because you didn't list toilet paper? If there's no power, the stores will not open. If society collapses, cash can be used to start fires. [/quote]

Oh please. There are plenty of plausible scenarios where people - whether your neighbors or the employees of a store - would take cash for groceries. Including power outages at the store, as they often have enough power to stay minimally open and will need to move perishables.

Everybody online wants to plan for social collapse, but can't seem to imagine a major weather event with severe short-term effects. [/quote]

We had a three day power outage a few years ago. Safeway turned away people because only the freezers were on the backup generators. The tellers can't make change without a machine. [/quote]

In a more recent outage, my local Giant powered the registers but cut lights to the store and asked you to check out right away with what you had. And of course a small or locally owned store or restaurant will take cash. It's obviously going to depend, but you can bet that stores are thinking about this and have a plan thst loses then the least money.[/quote]

I keep cash for this type of scenario or if a computer system is down or if the credit card processing software is down. It's separate from the type of preparation I have for a major water issue or electric grid issue. For that, I have gallons of water, emergency candles, matches, and water purifier things. I always have plenty of canned food and nonperishables so don't worry about that.

What people should definitely do is keep water bottles in their car, some snacks and blankets for situations where you're stuck on the interstate for hours, like when 95 shut down a few years ago because of a storm.[/quote]

When I was living in Michigan 40 years ago, everyone had snacks, blankets, matches, candles, torch, water, extra tire, shovel,  salt, rope, jackets etc in the car precisely for winter conditions. And everyone filled their gas tank! And life went on normally. People have just become stupider. 
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