{"id":4365,"date":"2020-06-05T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.org\/everythingelse\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T03:34:20","slug":"the-contents-of-my-storm-shelter-in-light-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.org\/everythingelse\/2020\/06\/05\/the-contents-of-my-storm-shelter-in-light-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The contents of my storm shelter in light of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The storm shelter after cleaning it out.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago I showed the contents of my storm shelter to my rental property manager. To my surprise, along with the spiders and dead leaves and many gallons of water and a few bags, there was a 9-pack of toilet paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I almost always buy toilet paper in large quantities. I get nervous when we get down to 8 rolls. But because I have known for years I was going to move this summer, I stopped buying TP in quantity. So the Great Toilet Paper run of 2020 caught me unprepared, and when I wanted to buy 12 rolls (we were down to four, oh horrors), all I could find as a giant 32 roll package at Sam’s Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only I’d known I had 9 (giant) rolls squirreled away. Of course I’d forgotten about them! I hadn’t set eyes on the contents of my storm shelter since last spring, when a tornado warning caught us off guard and we hurried down for long enough to check our devices and ascertain that there was no danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t look around. And I had stocked the storm shelter when I had it put in, January 2014. That was as soon as I could get it done. I bought the house in July 2013, just weeks after the May 20 F5 tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma. There was a long wait list (Oklahomans only really worry about storm shelters when they’ve seen recent local devastation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n