[dblshot]

While FEMA was hoarding water and ice at the Astrodome after Ike, Walmart was distributing same for free at it’s stores in the Houston area. They had stacks of generators and other essentials while FEMA was still arguing with local officials about who was in charge. Walmart rules!

[Huebolt]

I always said to win the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, just open 200 Walmarts with total security and reasonable prices and poof! WE WIN! ! ! !

People busy shopping are too busy to blow stuff up...

[Red_Devil 232]

You are right. After Katrina Wal-Mart used their vast distribution net work to get needed supplies from food to ice to generators to the Mississippi coast. And not only the coast, Mississippi was hit hard even 200 miles inland.

Employees who were displaced and found themselves as refugees in distant towns and cities and were welcomed to work in the local stores. They brought in huge generators to power their stores that did not have electricity. They were some of the only places to go for food and other supplies.