Posted on 01/13/2008 2:47:05 PM PST by blam
How long would the food last in that area if the large scale regional warehouses couldn’t be accessed? A week, maybe.
That old oatmeal might not be so bad in that case.<<<
In San Diego, during the 1960’s, they said the town had a 3 day supply of food in the grocery warehouses...........IF the Government took control of it instantly and doled it out.
And that you must be prepared for the Gov to get organized, so they could pass it out.
Plus, then there about 2 main hiways into San Diego, one from Los Angeles and the other I-8 to El Centro.
It would be easy to stop the new supplies from reaching there.
In the late 1970’s there was a big Truckers strike, then I lived near Kingman, Arizona.
There was one very large Safeway Store and several smaller markets.
I walked into Safeway and the shelves were bare.
If they had a case of cereal, you could buy ONE box.
It was one of each item, with only the bare basics available.
The manager was attempting to haul enough food from the Las Vegas Warehouse of Safeway, to feed 15,000 to 20,000 people, in a Pick up truck.
When I hear talk of a Truck strike, I go food shopping, yes, I have been told that I was nuts, but nothing erases the memory a huge store with NOTHING on the shelves and only a few cases near the checkout stands.
I think it will not take much to make a town want a shipment of food and wish they had stored more, under the bed.
Ping.
http://waltonfeed.com/sitemap.html
I love seeing their link, they are one of the few companies that I have ever dealt with, that I was completely happy.
Shopping in Kingman, is expensive for food, I can buy the basics from Walton, pay the shipping, have it delivered to my living room, and save money.
Wait till you open their bag of Oatmeal, it was the first time in years that I had smelled it, the brown sugar is another that smells so good and fresh, that you are munching as you empty the bags.
There is, when you open the catalog, a page called “Read my Label”, I learned more about what was in some of the foods from there, then in 50 years of being a wife.
Smile, no, not connected to them, found them on the internet, checked to see if it was used by the Mormons, as they do know about storing food and became a happy customer.
If I’m going to store something for any amount of time, I put it in canning jars and use a canning lid to seal it. No processing for dry goods, but stuff like popcorn keeps very well when sealed in an airtight container. Plastic doesn’t cut it.
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