What's your address again?

Take the first left at the shrimp boat docked at the southernmost point.

Yeah, Yeah, that's it. <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Um, actually I did spend some of the garage sale money on a new boonie hat. Plus a little more on grommets and snaps to improve the hat.

It's now a very nice hat. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

-Mark

We keep some vacuumed sealed in the fireproof safe (helps to prevent us for using it unless it is an emergency) so it is relatively accessable.

Just recently I got my wife one of those "money tubes" (don't know exactly what to call it). They are brass or silver and are 'keychains". when you take out the split ring the inner tube comes out. In that, you can easily roll up ie. a twenty. It is GREAT !!! It isn't really meant to be the TEOTWAWKI money supply but it has definitely helped her out of some situations. You can get them at (I think) Miles Kimble or something like it for <$8.

WHere did you get this money tube thing? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Living where we do and having seen the effects of Katrina, we normally keep $300 in cash stashed during hurricnae season. If we think there is a serious chance we will have to evacuate or not have access to a bank for a while, we will increase the cash to $500 - $700. Other than that, it sits in the bank.

For personal emergencies, I always keep a $20 bill and several ones sandwiched between two dog tags on my key ring. Use a rubber silencer to keep 'em together. Other than band-aids and my Squirt, that has been the most used EDC item that I carry.

Cliff's post reminded me of something. I bank at small local bank. I asked them about getting into my savings during an evacuation should a Katrina style hurricane run up the Keys. The best they could come up with is using an ATM card and running around to different machines or online access. My question is - how does online acess help if I don't have an account at a bank in my bugout location?

I'm thinking of moving my savings to a national or regional bank that has a branch in my usual retreat. Anyone have any thoughts on this issue?

Most smaller banks now have outsourced their holdings to larger banks anyway so chances are your account info is in a major data center and accessable somewhere.
My wife worked in HR and during Katrina they were still direct depositing payroll into peoples accounts so they could continue to withdraw or use a debit card somewhere to get what they need in the town where they evac'ed to. The people with mailed paychecks were in trouble because they couldn't provide addresses or proper identification saying they were who they were in the new location they were at.
Its still best to keep cash on hand, I've managed to save up a little bit in my EDC just for those situations.

It depends on how robust the online access is. For example, if it has a bill pay system (which I suspect most do) you could go online and "pay yourself" or a friend at your new location and then cash the check. You can also make sure that your bills (like insurance premiums and cell phone company ;-) are paid via the online bill pay system. Of course, this is for more long-term situations, and you could probably do as much with a checkbook. If your online access allows transfers to other banks, you could transfer money to a the account of a friend who banks at your remote location.

Online access varies from bank to bank. I have an account at BofA that has really robust online capabilities. I also have an account at a different local bank that has pretty lousy online capabilities (so bad that I actually prefer writing a check to using those online capabilities).

-Kuovonne

Lazermonkey......let me check the catalogs and I'll get the info for you....may take a day. thanks. CJK