Time to add cash to your hurricane kit
posted by Chris Bennett in hurricane kit
When hurricanes knock out power, we quickly become a cash society.
Most ATMs and credit cards will be useless, leaving you with only cash to pay for needed supplies.
At OneStorm, we’ve gone back and forth many times about whether or not to add “Cash” to our preparedness checklists. Currently, we do not. We believe that it is unreasonable to ask someone to hide an envelope of cash in June - and then there’s the question of “how much.”
Rather, we recommend that you withdraw cash from an ATM as soon as your home is in the 5-day cone of a storm. Hold onto it until the storm has passed and you’re confident that you won’t need it.
With Tropical Storm Erin threatening Texas right now, and an uncertain future for Tropical Storm Dean, it may be time for many of you to make that ATM run. Remember, even before the power goes out, a panicked community will empty those machines out fast!
Tags: atm, cash, dean, erin, hurricane kit, personal preparedness
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