Tsunami Warnings & Spam

Today there were tsunami warnings for Honolulu after the 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile. Luckily nothing happened. At least no tsunami hit.

But something did happen. Chaos, panic, the mad rush to leave or to stock up on supplies. I read an article today from yahoo about Scientist defending themselves for making the tsunami predictions and I agree they did the correct thing in letting people know a tsunami may hit. It is better to be prepared than have it hit you square in the face when your not expecting it.

The thing about the article that got me was people going to the store and grabbing food and water. The store had to put a limit on the number of cans of Spam that were allowed to be bought by each customer because of the "panic buying".

Maybe I should reconsider adding Spam to my food storage. It could be a real barter item if the grid goes down for any amount of time. Do you really think people like this stuff or were these people just grabbing at any canned meat they could get their hands on?

If these people had been prepared (even mentally) they could have grabbed canned beef stew, ham, tuna, potted meat, chicken and many other varieties of meat in a can. I'm probably just reading too much into this. They were probably buying all the kinds of meat available. Heck, probably anything in a can.

I just can't help but think if I lived by the Ocean or on an Island I think I would stock up on food and water and probably a life raft and life preservers. It's situations like this that have to make a person stop and think: How will I survive if? What would I do if?

I can not emphasis enough how important it is to think ahead in case something might happen. Especially if you have children. It is up to you to take care of them. We can't plan for everything but having food and water may help ease the situation.

If you're interested, read the article here.

Then go get your cans of spam before the stores put a limit on the amount of cans you can buy.