Your last 24 hours? - Event Date: October 20 2006

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   If you see a whisper of BF having gone human to human, then you need to leap into action THAT DAY and act like it's a certainty.... if you're wrong then it was a damn good drill, if you're right then maybe you can get two or three more carloads of stuff home before the rest of the world knows about it and every store is ransacked.  Do you have a plan?  Will you share it with all of us so that we can perhaps fine tune our own plans? 

My husband and I have a plan: he's going to take care of the stocks and money, gas, propane, and more ammo.  I'm going to take care of everything else.  He is sometimes hard to get at work, so we've got a code, if he hears "Alas Babylon" it's the real deal and he's to start his part of the plan immediately.  That code is only for this situation, so he knows if he hears it, I've got a fairly positive idea a pandemic is in motion.
As I'm driving to the store, I'll call my parents, who also know the code, etc.  That way I can just go down my short list, call and leave a message with the code, and move on to the next person quickly - every minute I give them in a minute more they'll have of warning.  
Then I've got an extra list of people to call, I'm buying milking goats from a farmer nearby but he knows I can only get them if TSHTF (my neighbors would shoot me if I had goats over here in a neighborhood, but if BF hits, then I'm getting two and they can just lump it.  They're milkers, so that's my source for milk for the kids, etc.)  He will deliver me two, and he's got a steady supply so it's almost certain he can just bring them right over.  Goats don't need a lot of extras, they can take the place of my yard service and eat all the poison ivy and juicy weeds growing in the corner of the lot.  $80.00 a goat.
I'll call and order more contacts, and I have a list of other things too, that are "wish list" of super-extra supplies but we want to wait as long as we can to get them and get the staple preps first (I do have a lot of backup contacts, a new pair of glasses, etc. but I'd like another year's worth of contacts too.  I'm blind without them.)
I've already discovered I'm limited in what I can buy by what my van will HOLD.  I can't make any bulky purchases, like toilet paper, paper towels, etc. as that will be displacing food.  And my plan is when I enter the store, I'll grab two grocery carts at the door, push one and pull one, and fill both up, then go check out, then load in the van, then either go back in or hit another store if they don't have things I need.  I'm going to focus on smaller stores, Dollar General, Family Dollar, etc. instead of Walmart as everyone will think to go to Wal-mart first and it'll be packed.  (And the smaller ones have milk and stuff too.)   The check out lines will be an hour long, I'll bet, so I'm trying to make the most of the time!!!
We're also certain that credit cards will eventually not be accepted, so my haste to get everywhere is to beat the closing of the banks.  Once it's common knowledge it's hit there will be a run on the banks, banks will close in an emergency situation so we don't have another "Depression" situation, and since most credit card companies are banks, the credit card issuers will be closed and therefor no checks or credit cards.  We've got a card set aside just for this situation, and we plan to literally charge whatever we can get our hands on, and just worry about paying for it later.  
I cringe thinking about having a full van and being forced to stop, come home, unload and then go back out.  I'll have kids with me, so you can imagine how stressful it will be.  I'm prepping now, and have a good about of preps, but how much is enough?  My husband is like, "good grief!!" but I"m like, "If we stay at home and don't go get what we can and then have our children looking at us and asking for food and we're out of food, won't you feel like a __________?"  We also don't know how many "extra" mouths we'll wind up feeding with our preps.
I've also made a short list and put it in my van's glove box of the times the stores I plan to go to open, close.  That way I'm not losing a second of time waiting on a store to open.  I've got a large insulation bag (folds flat) I'm leaving in the van to put in milk and other refrigeration things, as I don't plan to come home until the van is stuffed to capacity.
What are your plans?  