[fintstone]

It is a good idea to keep bulk necessities and cash on hand if you have plenty of storage space. It allows you to save money by buying during sales and allows you to manage you shopping trips better. I always keep supplies (which have been pretty nice during long power outages or shortages of staples) and rotate them . A good snowstorm can make travel dangerous and keep the power off a couple of weeks in many places. Keeping cash on hand is also helpful. Friends that laughed at my preparations fked around and found out. The typical person would only last days if isolated. Preventing that for one's family has always seemed to be a man's responsibility to me.

Lots of good folks in rural NC right now are without food, water, gasoline, or toilet paper. I bet that they wish they had prepared a bit better. The few things they could buy were cash only...and lots of folks do not keep a cash stash.