Just curious - how are you going for food etc?
I'm guessing you might be in a hotel?
Can you go out during the day and buy anything more than a baguette or is everyone shuttered up all day?
Alan
We're insanely lucky to be in a hotel in Anse Vata which has a bakery and a couple of convenience-type shops about 100m away. This area had some light troubles, but nothing like the more suburban areas.
The bakery has been opening at 0930h, but I get in the queue around 0745h. Food is being voluntarily rationed, so yesterday it was two baguettes only. Today they baked some other things, so it was two baguettes and any four other items (pastries, etc.). I do the bakery and the better half does the convenience stores. We have a mix of junk food, noodles in a cup, bread, pate, etc., and stuff we bought from the supermarkets before the unrest started, and lots and lots of Orangina Light, as I'm hooked on it.
The black market has started, a couple was doing well hawking cigarettes to our bakery queue today.
I saw on TV that some supermarkets opened very briefly, and other stores are rationing. I'm not driving anymore unless it's to the airport as we only have half a tank, the servos appear to be shut and the fuel gauge in the piece of cough MG that Hertz gave us instead of a Hyundai Tucson wavers all over the place.
We are not going any further than the shops from our hotel. The armed forces have moved in to some of the vacant rooms so we're fine here I suppose. A TV crew was assaulted in a "quiet area" by surprise, so I'm not taking any chances.
However my example is incredibly fortunate and not that of the general population. Areas out of the main city and well-off areas may be starving for food, medicine, fuel, etc, in 24 to 48 hours.
I've found the following website and the channel 1 TV x feed to be very informative:
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