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How To Prepare For A Hurricane
Shopping for hurricane supplies is a bit like planning for the end of the world
Florida is in Hurricane Dorian’s cone of uncertainty. We’re expecting anything from tropical storm conditions to the end of the world. According to the news, I’m leaning toward end of the world.
To prepare for the storm, everyone turns into a Doomsday Prepper. I need to prepare! Why don’t I have a generator? I need to dig a bunker. What if I have to overthrow the government in our post-apocalyptic wasteland? Do I need a gun? You race to the store to buy supplies before someone else can get them.
This is like no other shopping trip. There’s no list. No coupons. No plan. You arrive with one thing on your mind: prepare!
It takes twenty minutes to find a parking spot. Another ten minutes to load an old lady’s groceries in the back of her car. Does she realize there’s a storm coming? Why is she moving so slow? You take her cart and enter the store. What? You thought loading her groceries was a an altruistic act? There’s a storm coming. You look out for number one before anyone else!
Once you get in the store, panic sets in. I don’t have a list! What do I need?! In this moment your brain reverts to basic instincts. What does it take to survive? Bread and water.
