Just In Time: When the Trucks Stop, America Will Stop

[Redneck]

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Just In Time: When the Trucks Stop, America Will Stop (With Immediate and Catastrophic Consequences)

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/0 ... es-111081/

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[SilverEye]

Our society is a highly complex mechanism with a lot of moving parts. And if any one of those parts breaks down, the whole thing goes pear shaped real quick. I believe a threat that no one is talking about is the potential for state-sponsored hackers (think China, or terrorist-hired Eastern Europeans) could take down our credit / debit card infrastructure for a couple weeks. That would cause us one heck of a headache. And they wouldn't have to fire a shot or even leave the comfort of their easy chairs.

[fb101]

Yes. You need cash in a safe deposit box or your backyard enough for a couple of weeks.

[Mossy]

Yes. You need cash in a safe deposit box or your backyard enough for a couple of weeks.

Need more than that. No amount of money will buy what's not around, so I'd say at a minimum a one month supply of all essentials. I'm building up to a year supply. Beans and rice are cheap, oats less so.

[Nickelless]

Yes. You need cash in a safe deposit box or your backyard enough for a couple of weeks.

A safe deposit box is the worst possible place to put cash. Horror stories abound of boxes that have been raided by bank insiders, and in a best-case scenario, if there's a bank holiday or other reason that a bank is closed at any given time, you can't get your cash when you need it. Invest in a fire-resistant safe and hide it behind a bunch of clutter. Here's an article I wrote a couple years ago about how to hide valuables:

http://survivalprepdotnet.blogspot.com/ ... art-2.html