Posted on 04/02/2012 5:45:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
A report prepared for legislators and business leaders by the American Trucking Associations highlights just how critical our just-in-time inventory and delivery systems are, and assesses the impact on the general population in the event of an emergency or incident of national significance that disrupts the truck transportation systems which are responsible for carrying some ten billion tons of commodities and supplies across the United States each year.
A shut down of truck operations as a result of elevated threat levels, terrorist attacks, or pandemics would, according to the report, have “a swift and devastating impact on the food, healthcare, transportation, waste removal, retail, manufacturing, and financial sectors.”
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Sorry, but I don't agree with him on this. A blacked out house isn't so blacked out with smoke from a wood fire billowing up. I also suspect it would take a matter of weeks rather than his 2 years for most to eat through their pantries and most won't have a clue about wild game. Puleez, can you see some killing their precious darling pets??? No way. I've looked on liberal sites and by and large they had rather die than protect or provide for their children. Also, I wish he wouldn't keep telling people to go west. The west is filling up too quickly as it is.
TigerLikesRooster is good about keeping FR up to date on the Fukushima crisis. Do a search for his posts.
The one grocery here always has empty shelves. They play games with the chain’s weekly ads claiming the item didn’t make it in on the truck. “The truck” is their go to blame. Of course, when you demand something or ask for them to go to the back, it magically appears. If they’re this bad now, imagine what it’d be like when it does hit the fan. Because of their little games, I wonder how many customers have wised up and started stocking so they do have enough on hand to stay ahead of “the truck”? I’ve been waiting for them to put tuna on sale for Easter. They haven’t done it the last 5 years so I’m not holding my breath. Not that “the truck” would make it.
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What is the best, most economical way to store rice and beans?
What is the best, most economical way to store rice and beans?
(talking fairly large amounts...like 25/40 lb. sacks)
A couple good links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAMjmgobjQ
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-kitchen/rice-and-beans-a-survival-combination/
Alsocovered in my Preparedness Manual that you can download for FREE at:
http://tomeaker.com/kart/Preparedness1j.pdf
Thank you so much for this.
remember that blackout that occured about 7 years ago that affected most of the north east coast for several days? I don't think it affected you but it did us here in S.E. Michigan. It took me 4 hours to get home that day because all the street lights were out. By the next afternoon, the local supermarkets such as Meijers and Kroger were out of all non perishable essential foods, water and beverages.
That was a really strange time. There is an 8 lane highway about a half mile away that was dark and devoid of traffic and eerily silent once the sun went down.
I'd hate having to ride out a "die-off" in a "blacked out" house. I think maybe he was using that scenario to get folks to seriously consider moving to a location away from population centers and around like minded folks.
Seems like to me, that it wouldn't be long before you would wind up at the table of some gold tooth warlord as the main course.
For some people, it should be possible to go literally underground near large cities or population centers. The Vietcong were pretty good at hiding in tunnels under our noses. I remember stories of Japanese soldiers hiding out for years on American occupied islands after the war. For most though, it isn't an option.
IMO, the best bet would be for constitutional leaning folks to relocate to areas of the country that would offer a sustainable existence, defense and safety in numbers. Kinda like what Mr. Rawlings suggests...
I believe a certain Russian professor predicted just such a breakup of the US.
It’s Not Over: Government Plans for the Worst: Forced Evacuation of Tokyo
Quit all yur fear-mongering!
The experts tell us it’s no worse than having a chest x-ray...
with KRYPTONITE!!!
Not sure what part of the world you are in, but I will ping you if my G-counter picks up higher-than-normal background stuff...
Thanks for the ping...!
Oh yeah they got years of head scratchin to go over here.....just amazing.
Please do! I've not yet purchased one of my own but getting serious about it.
Any recommendations?
Best and most economical aren't the same thing, but for easy and cheap 2 liter soda bottles work well. You may want to add a food grade desiccant pack for long term.
Bump for later reading.
However you go about storing, soon as you get your rice & beans in the house, freeze them for a couple of weeks in order to kill off the weavils that always come packaged with such. (Maybe pick out a few heary bean specimens first for seed, if you garden.) If you don’t do the freeze-kill first, your storage efforts will have been for naught, as a friend of mine learned the hard way.
“hearty!” bean specimens. Geez...
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