Posted on 05/03/2009 2:55:09 PM PDT by appleseed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ammo. Canned goods. Vegetable seeds. Fortified water by the case.
They are reportedly flying off the shelves, these staples of the stockpile crowd.
“Survivalist” isn’t the right term, not in a downturn that has got everyone nervous. “Preparedness” or “self-sufficiency” — that is what they are saying.
Adhesive bandages. Gardens in the works — be they victory gardens or, as some prefer, “crisis gardens.”
The closet off the living room in the Owens home near Lawson, Mo., isn’t huge, but it’s organized.
Heavy coats, sweatshirts and Ron Owens’ cap collection greet wife, Jan, as she enters and flips the light. She pulls back the heavy coats.
There, on a rack covering the wall: Nonfat dry milk. Rice. A cast-iron skillet.
“You never know when you’ll need it,” she said of the food supplies she began stockpiling five months ago.
Jan is a cheery person who works in a nursing home. She apologizes for the cramped closet, just up the stairs from the cramped basement bathroom where more essentials are stuffed behind a curtain: Stewed tomatoes. First aid in a suitcase. Large bottles of liquor.
“Er ... that’s for snakebite,” deadpans Ron, who works in alternative fuels and holds an MBA.
The couple’s easy disposition — Ron plays mandolin on the porch — belies a worry shared by many in this final year of a stormy decade.
If Sept. 11 wasn’t enough, if Hurricane Katrina and spiking oil prices weren’t enough, if a federal government diving into 14-digit debt wasn’t enough, Jan and others now ask, “What if the banks close?”
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Would like to be on it. Thanks.
Never hurts to be prepared. I’ve put some essentials aside myself.
Invest in farming, energy, stuff governments cant print.
Unless that is backed up with weapons, that is going to get stolen in a second in a meltdown situation.
Please add me to the list. We’ve been working on stockpiling.
I would add to the medical supply list, hydrogen peroxide, isopropal alcohol and a big jar of aspirin.
We have back up....plenty. :)
Russia, 1917. You’ve got a palette of mac n’ cheese, bottled water, toilet paper, .38 revolver, bolt action .22 and a couple bricks of ammo, batteries, cigarettes, and liquor, and a few thousand in krugerrands. So how long will that last? Spring 1921? Good luck to ya.
Cast iron skillet, like for when someone from ACORN knocks on the door? :-)
Golly gee, it's not printed what happened five months ago that caused them to decide they needed to do this.
please add me to your ping list appleseed. thanks in advance. and thanks for the ping list as well.
Exactly.
The other thing to consider is how much of it is portable? Can you gather up a number of those essentials and ‘bug out’ into the wilderness if you need to?
Having a massive stockpile in your house doesn’t do you a lot of good once the Goon Squad comes to take you off to camp.
However, having a number of small cache’s scattered strategically makes more sense, and is more beneficial.
Stock up on essentials and then announce it to the nation, being sure to include your names. Brilliant.
Add me to your ping list too, please.
Thank You!!
Obama, of course you silly :-)
Add me to the list, please.
Okay. Added to the list.
Now, now, these may be aliases.
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