If it hits the fan hard enough, those supply points will be secured pretty quickly. Although bartering is always a possibility. I can't imagine that the types of locations you listed didn't have someone around when the last hurricane passed by your area.

And yeah, I can't imagine people wouldn't have been a little jumpy.
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