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It’s Always Earthquake Season
By Molly's Brother | September 18, 2006
As we find ourselves knee deep in Hurricane Season, I remind my fellow Californians (and Pacific Coasters and–apparently–Gulf Coasters) that it’s always earthquake season. Please take a moment and visit the Red Cross website and pull together a kit that might be helpful in an emergency.When you’re pulling together you’re kit, remember that one of the most overlooked items is cash.
We’re becoming increasingly less dependant on cold hard cash in our society, but when that emergency strikes and takes out electricity and phone lines and knocks our great cities off line, our credit card and debit cards won’t be as reliable as they were they day before. Websites, like the Red Cross, suggest tucking away at least $100, but I am all too aware of how quickly a hundred bucks can fly out of my hands. My goal is to set aside about $500. I figure that, in an emergency, we might be “off line” for up to a week.
This, of course, is a much different “emergency fund” than the one I usually talk about. This money won’t be touched, except in case of an incredibly horrendous earthquake that would rival any disaster seen in any Joanna Kerns movie-of-the-week.
I feel like a squirrel stocking up for winter. (And I am fully aware that by writing about a terrible earthquake, I’m only asking God to send one our way! LOL.)
Topics: Emergency Fund |