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I live on a plateau and there is another small mountain between me and Mt. Rainier so I'm safe from lahars and gas and rock, but not necessarily from ash, which would paralyze transportation and most mechanical systems.
I need to be concerned about mud slides and structural damage from earth quakes. I've wondered about forest fires too, but I might be too urban.
What do you need cash for? Food, motel, gas etc. Could run $200 per day day not knowing how many are in your family. I would say 1,000 for a few days.
That's the thing: I'm not really sure. I was just curious what others do. I figured asking people from Florida would be a good start. I've never experienced a mandatory evacuation.
I'm reassembling a substantial emergency supplies kit... the kind that's supposed to get us through "the big one" (volcanic eruption or catastrophic earthquake, both of which are completely valid concerns 'round these parts).
They always say "keep cash on hand", but they never say just how much. The only thing I can imagine needing cash for if the SHTF is for gasoline, mechanic, airline tickets (totally optimistic on that one) and, of course, food and health needs (but our kit should last us a month... about 2 weeks longer than what authorities recommend).
So maybe 1k?
I keep a thousand cash in the safe. Ways that has come in handy, non catastrophic emergency thus far (knock on wood) here in Seattle:
- The locksmith who was "cash only" for a couple hundred. He was shady, didn't surprise me all that much but good I had it.
- When my credit card is nicked, and/or ATM, was happening like clockwork every couple years until ...a couple years ago. Guess I'm due. Takes the doofuses about a week to send me a new one, during which I need to go cash-only obviously. Haven't used ATM card much since going largely cashless past few years.
- Couple other times I've needed a few hundred on relatively short notice, for convenience sake until I can go to the ATM. Not an emergency, though.
Obvious real emergency purpose is for a disaster-type situation where I'm in a bind, as you say for gas or something else I may need but not have handy. So yes, for me too, a grand on-hand seems about right. Major emergency requiring ten-twenty large "cash" (or should I say, sudden expense), I'd charge it and bite the bullet....assuming credit cards are available, I guess!
Zombie apocalypse, my charges will be made via Smith and Wesson and Fabrique Nationale. Figure those odds are (I pray) about .000001% on any given day, though.
I'm reassembling a substantial emergency supplies kit... the kind that's supposed to get us through "the big one" (volcanic eruption or catastrophic earthquake, both of which are completely valid concerns 'round these parts).
They always say "keep cash on hand", but they never say just how much. The only thing I can imagine needing cash for if the SHTF is for gasoline, mechanic, airline tickets (totally optimistic on that one) and, of course, food and health needs (but our kit should last us a month... about 2 weeks longer than what authorities recommend).
So maybe 1k?
Anyone preppers from Florida wanna chime in on how much cash you keep? I figure that's the population that is most experienced with natural disasters.
If you only have supplies for a month, you won't make it through "the big one."
If you only have supplies for a month, you won't make it through "the big one."
Really, you think? I would think FIMA would be able to get it's sheite together enough to provide assistance within a month. It's a prosperous country and particularly affluent corner of the state. First worlders deluxe. Inefficient response would necessitate a very complex system of assaults on a national scale, not just a regional disaster.
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