Not being able to buy a necessity gets you in a scary and impotent situation. I’ve seen that twice in my city, the first one was when an unusual cold winter ar

Not being able to buy a necessity gets you in a scary and impotent situation. I’ve seen that twice in my city, the first one was when an unusual cold winter arrived, temperatures went down to -25 Celsius, maybe that doesn’t sound as much for people who live in cold places, but for my city in Northern Mexico that was amazingly cold. Our infrastructure colapsed, electricity went down, internet and cellphone antennas went down with it, there was LP shortage, old trees died, few people had running water since a lot of pipes were broken. And since everyone was trying to fix their pipes at the same time there was a shortage of tubes and consumables, people spent days and weeks without water. The second time in 2009 with H1N1’s outbreak, we ran out of masks in a couple of hours. Situations like that made me realize how vulnerable our societies can be in big events.