Katie Phang is stating that her mother told her to have money stashed away.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Yes $100 would be good.

For some gas for the car, that is how you are going to charge your phone.
For food if some of the stores operate in the dark and hand out food.
Try to have something to eat in your freezer and pantry.

We couldn't drive anywhere because there were so many trees and power lines down.
So we were trapped.

A nearby Panera opened for a few hours a day. In the dark, they had no electricity.
They were just selling what food they had on hand in their freezers before they
had to throw it out. We just waited in line and they put some food on a plate for you,
you didn't get any choice and then they just charged a little bit of cash for it.

At the end of the first week I was getting seriously panicked because I had a child in
the home who was used to eating on a regular basis.

I cut back on my food intake just to make sure that she had adequate food supply.

We walked over to a local nearby grocery store to see if by any chance they might be open and selling food on hand.

But they weren't open and I remember looking through the window at all the food sitting on the shelves. And I actually contemplated how I would get it get into the store to get food for my child if it came to that. I realized then that civilization is only a thin veneer and can collapse quite quickly.