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Crisis Reality: “Within An Hour the Stores Were Emptied”
SHTF Plan ^ | 1/21/14 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 01/21/2014 2:10:45 PM PST by Kartographer

When toxic chemicals spilled into the Elk River in Charleston, West Virginia a couple of weeks ago we got another glimpse into what the world might look like in the aftermath of a major, widespread disaster.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: chemicalspill; disaster; preparedness; preppers; storesemptied; survival; westvirginia
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Lesson #1: There will be immediate panic


1 posted on 01/21/2014 2:10:45 PM PST by Kartographer
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


2 posted on 01/21/2014 2:11:11 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

People looted the snack shelves because there was a chem spill?


3 posted on 01/21/2014 2:12:00 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Kartographer

well....this pic tells me short folk are screwed


4 posted on 01/21/2014 2:12:16 PM PST by advertising guy (givin Iran, ian oil producing country, billions, is like givin Texas cattle cause they can grow hay)
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To: Kartographer

Hence my post on your other thread ...


5 posted on 01/21/2014 2:15:20 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Kartographer
The story says that the stores sold out of bottled water, which is hardly a surprise. I don't think that anyone in the area actually died from dehydration.
6 posted on 01/21/2014 2:22:08 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: nascarnation
It's the first thing on my emergency checklist.

/johnny

7 posted on 01/21/2014 2:22:51 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

Isn’t that a store in Chicago after a visit by a flash mob of local yutes ?


8 posted on 01/21/2014 2:24:17 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: iowamark

If such a minnor disruption cause such choas what would you think would happen if some real SHTF came?


9 posted on 01/21/2014 2:24:34 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: advertising guy

Down in Florida my grandma use to call all the short old ladies in the stores “bottom Feeders”...


10 posted on 01/21/2014 2:26:29 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: UCANSEE2; iowamark

http://freepatriot.org/2014/01/10/breaking-residents-loot-grocery-stores-wv-chemical-spill-contaminates-drinking-water-300000/


11 posted on 01/21/2014 2:27:29 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Abathar

mean , ain’t we

lolololol


12 posted on 01/21/2014 2:34:59 PM PST by advertising guy (givin Iran, ian oil producing country, billions, is like givin Texas cattle cause they can grow hay)
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To: Kartographer

“Immediately after the announcement, the stores in the area were rushed for any bottled water products. Within an hour the stores were emptied.”

People who read your threads will spend that hour loading some surprises up as they are already prepared


13 posted on 01/21/2014 2:36:39 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Kartographer

If you read the story that accompanied the picture and headline, there was NO looting. What we did see was bottled water selling out rapidly from stores 100 miles from the problem area. Coca Cola was making emergency deliveries of water to Walmart.


14 posted on 01/21/2014 2:38:01 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: Kartographer

Yep.

Glad I have some backup water at home.


16 posted on 01/21/2014 2:38:33 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: Kartographer

Very scary.


17 posted on 01/21/2014 2:40:38 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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Aww come on! I was there when it happened it was not as bad as that pictures shows!

Plus to the credit of all the emergency personal/volunteers who helped distribute water all over the county I say "two thumbs up". Yes a lot of us had to go without showers but we at least had drinking water.

18 posted on 01/21/2014 2:41:09 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: meatloaf

I look forward to your reply to post #9 this thread.


19 posted on 01/21/2014 2:44:40 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Plus with 24 hours our local Wal Mart had tons of water in stock!

Not only that Wal Mart actually rolled back the prices! Instead of .88 cents for a gallon it was only .55 cents. So no one can accuse Wal Mart of price gouging.

Seriously I was happy to see how this was handled.

Now lets find the idiot who put the hole in the pipes, or at least that is what the rumor going around is.


20 posted on 01/21/2014 2:45:16 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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