May21 Project: Day 6

It’s May 26, it’s been 5 days. Good news/Bad news. I have finally been able to get a hold of Chris. He let us know that he had been up to my Mom and Dads, and they are doing fine. I have also got email or seen posts from all my Brothers and Sisters. They also seem to be getting through this. Cindy’s Mom also posted that they were safe from the Tornado… they were in Tulsa this last week.

I decided to buy Gas every time I get lower than ¾. Not even waiting till 1/2. This way I always have an almost full tank in the car. There is no telling when credit cards are going to stop working. And it looks like that is where we are headed. The European Stock market is crashing, and in Greece, and Portugal they have started having food riots. The US stock market is not much better.

I plan on buying more canned food today. I did buy a small generator yesterday, and two 5 Gal gas cans which I filled up on the way home from work. Is it wrong to keep using my credit card? I have mixed feelings, on one hand this all may blow over and stabilize, and I’ll just have to pay, on the other, which is where I think we are going, the banking system is going to fail, and I won’t have to pay it back…

I did swing by the Gilroy Wal-Mart and bought up all the Ammo I could.357, 38, 223, 12 and 20 gauge. I even bought calibers for guns I don’t have… You can always trade 30.06 and 30.30s for stuff.

I’m headed to work again today. If getting interesting. In some cases it’s like nothing happened, and I’m making progress on future product planning and in others, I can’t make any progress at all. It’s getting harder and harder to get email and phone calls through to Asia and Europe. If this keeps up, and with all the rolling power outages, it’s almost not worth it to drive in to work.

Folks! Start buying up food and supplies. You should have already had a 72 hour kit and 3 months of food stored… if you don’t even have that you better get some. Before May 21, I would have said to just buy 5-10 cans of extra stuff every time you went to the store. That way before long you would have built up a 2-3 month stock of food that you already eat…

But now, I think you should max out your credit cards and buy whatever you can. I’m already seeing stores looking bare, and if they stop getting shipments… well you get the picture. Make sure you stock up an emergency pantry full of canned food.

Be Smart.