Recent flooding will destroy 40% of America's rice crop, according to the video below. Severe winter weather destroyed a large portion of the wheat crop, too. Corn crops are similarly impacted. The flooding also puts some oil refineries at risk. Can consumers catch a break? Looks like both food and fuel are going to go even higher. Time to stock up on food?
Well the rest of the nation is going to wish they'd spent more time with grandma learning how to preserve and store food, sew, and darn socks in the not too distant future. You're ahead of the curve AV, which isn't all that surprising to me.
The answer is Yes. Emergency Essentials showed a warning that Mountain House is running short and unable to fill orders at this time. First saw a similar warning here several months ago. This was happening prior to the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Now with additional pressure from floods and tornados do some still believe there won't be a food shortage?
Anyone who has ever seen the bread/beer/milk debacle at the local Safeway when a snowstorm is predicted knows, or ought to know, that we live in a "just in time" world, where there just ISN'T a bunch of extra stock in the back room in case of emergency.
If grain crops get wiped out, there is no replacement until NEXT years crops.
Oh, I don't doubt that here in America we'll have plenty of food available. But the cost may kick low income and those on fixed incomes completely to the curve if they don't have a little put aside. And even the middle class could be feeling the pinch if food costs say, doubled. It's not impossible.
PrintSmith wrote: Well the rest of the nation is going to wish they'd spent more time with grandma learning how to preserve and store food, sew, and darn socks in the not too distant future. You're ahead of the curve AV, which isn't all that surprising to me.
Well that's nice of you, PS.
And yes, I can preserve and store food, sew, and darn socks. Knit them too. I might even let you borrow my antique treadle sewing machine when the lights go out and we can't buy cheap shirts from China anymore.
Nah, I'll just hook the electric one up to the inverter and let the diesel motor idle. The diesel I have in my Scout will run off of darned near anything that will ignite under compression. Kerosene, used tranny fluid, vegetable oil, Jet A..........you can't get a better multi-fuel engine than a good old fashioned mechanical diesel. Put one in a old Scout and you can get pretty much anywhere you want to go - and a few places you might not want to as well. I don't care how fancy the new vehicles get, I'll always have at least one beast from the era before they started sticking computers into the cars to meet the CAFE and emission standards.
