Posted on 09/17/2014 3:16:58 PM PDT by Kartographer
Another thing to point out is the amount of time it takes to get back on track following a disruption in supply. Take a blizzard that shuts down a distribution center for a day. The way things work is that shipments are coming in constantly, but they are timed so that basically only the items projected to be necessary are delivered. There are not warehouses full of every item imaginable that can just be run out to a store. Now a blizzard not only shuts down the warehouse and its delivery vehicles, but it shuts down the trucking that supplies the warehouse itself. When the trucks do start moving they are going to be late and sometimes out of sequence. So, items that aren’t needed are coming in, and items that are needed are sitting in a yard somewhere waiting for a driver. The last time this happened to me, it took a full week for things to get caught up and for me to actually be able to supply the customers properly. That isn’t to say there was nothing available, but it was not the right items at the right time. It was a week’s worth of issues caused by a blizzard that didn’t even hit our state. It just shut down the transportation system. Now imagine if something serious hit. Stores would be wiped out, and resupply would be spotty at best.
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Good info. Thanks.
Been into a Sears or JC Penny lately? ROFL!
Best Buy isn't looking much better....
Cash or trade only - no CREDIT!
How about EBT Card? ;-)
There was a major outage of credit card and debit card systems during a major two week ice storm in my area a few years ago.
We ran out of formula after a few days, so I actually walked to the store. The ice had knocked out the antennas for the debit/credit system. People were trying to argue “can you write down my information?” or “will you take checks?” I held up $40 with two cans of formula and a pack of diapers and said, “I can pay now!”
I was served and departed, while they still tried to figure out how to pay.
IF ‘something serious happens’ and you can’t take care of your household for a few weeks - YOUR FAULT.
During the ice storm of ‘98 in the no. east, I was without power for 19 days.
The only drawback was water! After my tub was drained of ‘flush water and my bottles of drinking/cooking water ran out - I had to make daily trips to the fire station for water.
I have my wood stove for heat and cooking, my kero-lamps for lights. Plenty of non-perishable foods for a few weeks, including milk.
My future plans include an all-season hand water pump.
Would like egg layers and room for more garden, fruit trees and berry bushes.
I also know which wild foods to forage.
BOB’S RED MILL is an excellent source of ‘survival’ foods - starting with milk. Their ‘dry milk powder’ is from real milk nothing else. It’s what bakers have used for decades. It’s tastes nothing like ‘powdered milk’ that you get in the store. I used to use this - buying direct from bakeries - when my kids were little (my oldest is now 60! - and when mixed and cooled, you cannot tell the difference from regular milk.
If you have dried soup vegetables and jars of broth - you’ve got gallons of soup...Spam is pure pork - about 90 from shoulder pork and rest off flank ham - stores indefinitely...sprouting seeds will give you delicious snacks packed with nutrition...buckwheat for pancakes with a little water is all you need for a great breakfast....
on and on.
It all goes back to Jesus’ parable of the bridesmaids. Keep your wicks trimmed and lamps filled...
research all the super products from Bob’s Red Mill
start with the milk - then go to their site and explore all the categories listed on the left of the page
http://www.swansonvitamins.com/bobs-red-mill-non-fat-dry-milk-powder-22-oz-pkg
Bob’s site
http://www.bobsredmill.com/Best-Sellers
(they have lots of gluten free mixes too)
You go hungry in the first few weeks of an emergency - SHAME ON YOU
Where I live, highways are closed for days several times each winter. Ridges of ice along county roads are pushed up to about 12 feet by heavy equipment, before they give up on those roads.
I believe that Spam lasts forever. Even when opened and sitting on the kitchen counter, it lasts forever.
Spam ,,
if it lasts forever,,
What does it Do in yer gut?
Good story. I can imagine holding up a .40cal. Well, not me personally but, somebody will. (I’ve got a .45)
Been a Spam eater for a long time, so it was no problem to load up on a couple of cases "just in case" (cough). However, I've noticed, unlike before, that a slice shrinks to about half its size when fried. I can only come to the conclusion that they are doing like the rest and pumping more water into their product. I'm talking like a 40-50% shrink factor.
So . . . while the stuff might last forever, you might have only half as much as you think.
Thanks, maine-iac, you are absolutely right. You have got to figure out how to prep for a season at the minimum. Depending on your area it might be summer or winter preps but 3-4 months of cold or heat will be the hardest to endure. after that...
Our one and only grocery store has looked like something out of a third world for years. I stand around gawking on the rare occassion I go into even the smallest city grocery. Want bread? Uh, didn’t order it. Need milk? The truck didn’t deliver it so ask that woman over there with the last 2 gallons if she’ll give you one. Thinking of throwing a nice dinner and maybe having a relish tray with something other than canned black or green olives? Hahaha, dream on.
You quip: “Spam ,,
if it lasts forever,,
What does it Do in yer gut?”
You don’t eat pork? ;) or do any research?
“. Whatever you may hear, no ‘scrapings’ or ‘useless bits’ of pork or ham have ever found their way into SPAM® Products.
SPAM® Chopped Pork & Ham is primarily high quality pork shoulder meat and ham (actually hand cut off the bone). These are ground together with water, a little sugar, salt and spiced flavouring to be cooked in the can which gives it, its long shelf life.”
http://www.spam-uk.com/products/index.php
I remember from an accounting class CASH IS KING!
The gov’t will try to keep that going as long as possible, even to the point of FORCING retailers to take it as payment.
That is, until they can get the idea out there that the TEOTWAWKI condition is the fault of the “enemies of gov’t”,
then they’ll “release the hounds” by collapsing the handout system.
BFL
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