Posted on 01/20/2015 1:22:42 PM PST by Kartographer
I was at work and decided to run to the grocery store close by to get some stuff to make a soup. So it is around 3:30 and I am with my cart at the veggies section. All is normal. Suddenly big bags of corn flour arrive. It is the one that is price controlled, the "normal" Harina P.A.N.. The one that "el pueblo" wants because there are other presentations like the one I buy which has extra fiber, but costs almost twice as much (though still dirt cheap, a dime or 3 bucks depending on your preferred exchange rate).
Now, even in these times of scarcity IF you are in the store and even IF a particular scarce item is arriving, you will get some because the store sells only a few pounds to each customer. There is plenty of time.
Well, a food fight started and the store personnel had to struggle to bring order and force people to stand in line. Of course, the gates of the store were locked fast to limit the number of people that get in, something that now happens EVERY TIME corn flour, laundry detergent, cooking oil, etc, arrive.
I was in shock and moved away to the refrigerated section not for fear but for shame of witnessing such a sorry scene. Yet, when I was done and I saw the line normal I just went there and got my 8 pounds of corn flour; for my cleaning lady, by the way, that I gave her as a gift later on. I had already in my cart 4 pounds of the fiber enriched flour.
Thus there was ENOUGH for the customers attending at arrival, but people are now panicking at a possible lack of food.
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I remember that news item about the grocery shelves being emptied in the Atlanta area, due to an incipient winter storm. Highly unnecessary, IMO.
“A cane that can be used as a weapon is very good.”
I have several canes. One is metal, a fast turn of the handle and the case falls away, leaving in your hand, a 19 inch sword with a very sharp point. These cannot be sold in a number of states but legal in Texas. I bought it on line from a store in Louisiana. It is a beautiful metal cane with a dragon handle.
“Harina P.A.N”
This has been one my prepper items. Comes in a heavy package, just add water, if that’s all you have. Get it at the grocery store in the ethnic section. Highly recommended.
Oh joy, what fun to live under Socialism. Just keep voting for progressives and their promises of free stuff America-soon we will get to experience this first hand.
The movies, “Red” and “Red 2” were both pretty enjoyable to watch.
“I have black out covers for windows so no light is seen coming from my place at night. Light and other power is from batteries, not generators, so there is no noise. Cooking is upstairs in a bedroom with door closed so odor will not carry to the outside.”
Brilliant. You think of things in great detail. I love the cooking upstairs bit. Thanks for sharing.
Good ideas.
Blending in and staying under the radar will be crucial. We’re moving (finally) to a rural area, where we will learn to be as self-sufficient as we can. We’ll also learn to blend in with the locals and appears not to have any more than they do. Being rural, it is a bit economically depressed. So we’ll get to practice what you suggest, on a lesser scale.
Black plastic garbage bags, size L, for covering our windows so as to black them out in a post-SHTF secenario.
Not a big deal, but the ones we use for trash are white; I need to buy black ones specifically for this purpose.
So yeah, thank you for reminding me!
PS: you know what goes hand-in-hand with this? A stapler. Taping will be very inefficient and not a good use of resources, unless you own a tape factory.
If you are at work right now, slip a box of staples into your pocket. No one will know, and it may save your life.
“Black plastic garbage bags, size L, for covering our windows so as to black them out in a post-SHTF secenario.”
I bought, on Amazon, black out accordion heavy duty paper window coverings with pressure rods included, just put them up using the rods. In the daytime, push them up from the bottom and since they are accordion, they fold up and there are clips to hold them up. At night, take off the clips and they fall down to black out the windows. They were also not expensive.
You want to blend in as fast as you can and those are some of the best ways to do it.
great ideas, thanks. will do!
Thanks for the ping. I buy almost nothing that is not on sale. Buy at least 2 for the pantry, and more if it’s a really good deal-whatever the limit is, and depending on being able to use it up by the use by date.
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