Posted on 05/27/2022 3:56:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What if the lights go out this summer? How much food gets lost?
In February 2021, I wrote on the near collapse of the Texas electric grid and asked this rhetorical question: "how would you and your family like to be trapped in your car at 16 degrees below zero?"
Given that it is summertime, and the living is theoretically easy, let me ask another one. If the lights go out, how much refrigerated food will you lose? Similarly, will you be able to replace lost food?
We have all seen huge food price increases and heard media reports of the potential for massive food shortages. Among the many reasons, the Russian-Ukraine war taking out the "breadbasket of Europe" and simultaneously dramatically reducing critical fertilizers products looms large. With no end in sight, this war will significantly impact global food supplies for some time.
Other global factors are also in play. Flooding in China has had a detrimental impact on Chinese crops, and China has limited fertilizer usage in some fields. Also, China is still recovering from a dramatic loss of its swine herds due to swine flu epidemics, creating a potential protein shortage. No idea what the lockdowns will do.
India, one of the larger grain exporters, has placed severe restrictions on its exports to ensure adequate domestic food supplies. Food riots in Sri Lanka are occurring.
Globally, the prices of grains are rising dramatically, creating the potential for almost unimaginable misery among the world's poorest.
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Yeah I learned about that technique..That tuna looks like some real slop but I guess if your starving it will do.
You get by with a little help from strangers who become your friends.
It happened to me a few years back, but it was an actual -40 degrees in a very windy blizzard. My car stalled midway between St. Cloud and Minneapolis Minnesota after sunset on New Year's eve. I put on an extra coat, and walked a mile to the nearest gas station. It didn't have wrecker service, but they let me use their phone to call one that did. (this was before cell phones).
The owner of that station answered, but he said all of his wreckers were out on service calls because of the weather. Instead, he closed the station, then came to pick me up in his personal car. He then towed my car back to the station.
We pushed it into his service stall, and he handed me a set of keys to the parts cabinet. He had no mechanics on duty, but tole me to take what was needed for me to fix the car. I shortly found that the coil was bad, but he had no replacement for it.
He said "no problem, my friend owns the Chevy dealership." He called his friend, who picked me up, drove over to the dealership, and opened it up to sell me the coil. I paid every one, gave profuse thanks to all, and drove on in time to meet my girlfriend in Minneapolis for a New Year's Eve party. I doubt that anything like this could happen today.
Just as long as liberals remain alive there is meat. :)
I was thinking as I read your story that there is no way that would happen today. That was the America that was truly great. 🇺🇸
So do your neighbors. Wild game won't last long in a prolonged outage.
3 -4 months. Probably longer.
I could lose a few pounds.
Those pesky kids in the neighborhood would probably want to eat as well.
I became curious about wind generation for backup power to run my refrigerator/Freezer during a power outage.
What I discovered was that small wind generators are perhaps a cult in the UK and of all places, India. It turns out there are tons of inexpensive small wind generators that can be fabricated by someone with reasonable skills. There are also some that are hard to reproduce and there are some that are just plain wacko
What’s more, if you lack skills, there are a lot of companies that have the small wind generators for sale.
I decided that a better choice was my 150 amp van alternator that is already configured to a 1200 watt inverter. and can easily charge the existing marine battery
We have an 11KW whole house genny. With the large propane tanks we keep filled I figure we can last 8 months running the genny 2 hrs a day and have enough left over to cook and heat the house. If it went all down today we would be short on food by Christmas. That is not counting the venison that run around here.
Good thought.
I should add deer corn to my supplies and then with the sliding door slightly open, I can kill the deer from the comfort of my office.
It could happen, but you would need to be further away from Minneapolis now.
Just as long as liberals remain alive there is meat. :)
Naw,,, too gamey.
We could all use a good biscuit recipe...
We have a whole house propane generator. So as long as the propane holds out.
You jest but there is an entire subset of society who have never used a manual can opener before.
For a while I was on an all-metal can opener buying spree at yard sales. Stopped when I got to a dozen. Figured they would be a good trade item in the apocalypse.
Yep. But I tell you what, the manual ones dont seem to hold up...another piece of junk they make today.
Well that one years worth of survival food we bought back in 2010 is finally going to come in handy. And the 6 acres of agricultural/unrestricted land we just bought up in the N GA foothills. We already have chickens.
Good biscuits:
heat the oven to 400
2 cups of flour, sifted
tablespoon or so of good baking powder (Rumsfeld)
half a teaspoon or so of salt.
cut in three or four tablespoons of butter or shortening and
then mix in about a half cup of or so of milk, enough to make the dough a little wet.
dump it out on a floured surface, fold a few times and cut the dough to biscuit size.
bake for about 12 minutes.
After a few times, you can throw them together without measuring and have biscuits on the table less than 30 minutes.
Turning flour into bread isn’t something many people know how to do, beyond than cracking open a can of dough. But you can keep the ingredients except for the milk for a long time without refrigeration.
One thing I realized was how much we depend on someone else baking for us. We buy sandwich bread and buns, but they don’t keep long. If they become hard to find, can we cope?
I can eat a lot of stuff if it’s stuck inside a good biscuit.
A long time. Fuel storage. Multiple generators. Ranch. Food storage. Just wife and I. A long time
You either...
1. Omitted a sarcasm tag
2. You have the intellect of a bowling ball with an inability to grasp reality like a typical vote fraud denier.
If #2, seek professional help.
Leftism is a severe & violent mental disorder.
LOL
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