PING!
Just think how much people use their debit cards now days. I can’t even remember the last time I brought gasoline with cash or paid my utility bills with cash or a check. Now imagine your bank has shutdown like this one with no warning. How much cash do you have right now?
If credit and debit cards were suddenly cut off I would expect things would quickly go as described in this article:
An event at my grocery store [An ATS member’s experience].
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314019/posts
Article is also in my Preparedness Manual which can be download for free at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
Aside from the ‘failing banks’ scenario, a mere one or two days loss of the Internet would be more than a slight ‘inconvenience’.
Think about how much of our daily business is dependent upon this relatively new ‘system’...
In short, keeping cash-on-hand as part of your normal Preps, is something to consider.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/08/ap-panetta-visit-offutt-air-base-nebraska-080511/
People should be sure to keep a few hundred in cash in their gun safes “just in case”, and not keep everything in just one bank.