Two checks were lost in the mail, and Courtney Havenwood was starting to panic.

"When I opened the cabinets and they were bare, it scared me," said Havenwood, a wife and mother of two from Austin, Texas. "Even though I knew money was coming, it freaked me out. So (my husband and I) decided as soon as he got paid, we'd invest in food storage."

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