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    A buddy is on my case about food storage

    So I keep about 90 days worth of stuff on hand. Without electricity I can cook, get water and heat the house.

    But a buddy LEO who is privy to regular DHS briefings is riding me about not having 2 years worth of food on hand. Am I stupid thinking that things are likely to get back to normal within 90 days?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 500grains View Post
    So I keep about 90 days worth of stuff on hand. Without electricity I can cook, get water and heat the house.

    But a buddy LEO who is privy to regular DHS briefings is riding my about not having 2 years worth of food on hand. Am I stupid thinking that things are likely to get back to normal within 90 days?
    So, what is his reasoning for having two years worth of food, in relationship to his DHS briefings?
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    He has not told me the content of the briefings, so maybe they are confidential. But he has generalized several times saying we should expect blood in the streets, etc. While I recognize that the line between civilized society and barbarism is thin, and I think we could have more localized incidents like Katrina, Rodney King riots, etc., I am having trouble conceiving of a situation where we would face complete economic and transportation shutdown for 2 yrs. Again, perhaps I am just naive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 500grains View Post
    He has not told me the content of the briefings, so maybe they are confidential. But he has generalized several times saying we should expect blood in the streets, etc. While I recognize that the line between civilized society and barbarism is thin, and I think we could have more localized incidents like Katrina, Rodney King riots, etc., I am having trouble conceiving of a situation where we would face complete economic and transportation shutdown for 2 yrs. Again, perhaps I am just naive.
    Most of the nation is in this boat. You can show them the documents and the facts and you are either laughed at or the people shut down on you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thunderinms View Post
    Wake up and get ready... I will elaborate later...
    This should be interesting.

    I have a 30 day supply of MREs on hand just in case of a natural disaster type of thing, not likely in NV, but it never hurts to be prepared.

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    I was going to ask if something was up nationally...I have had 2 buddies of mine mention to me this week about "preparation, and ammo hoarding..." They read all the fiscal blogs and glue themselves to untainted national news...or so they say its untainted. Im interested...
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    He is referring to the effects of a prolonged oil stoppage due to the aftermath of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran.
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    I have two years with of Dry Storage food. I'm already finding that what I paid for this stuff is already well cheaper than regular groceries.

    I expect shelves in the stores to be full of food, but who will want to pay $15 for a gallon of milk, or $25 for a box of rice?

    Even the most basic knowledge of economics should immediately send of red flags as to what is happening right now.

    Also, I would not ignore information from anyone working within the DHS, I would take it all as a very serious warning to get my shit together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heavy Metal View Post
    He is referring to the effects of a prolonged oil stoppage due to the aftermath of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran.
    This always surprises me as most of our oil comes from Canada. I didn't believe it until my wife told me. Since she's a energy lawyer I have no reason to suspect she's fibbing.

    As for DHS I wouldn't take anything they told me as gospel. I've worked with a bunch of different directorates over the last few years and I've had some interesting experiences, the best one being a first responder standing up infront of a room full of SES-level people from across DHS and saying that we as first responders do not trust DHS. The response was "we know, and we are working on it". I was glad to be on the DoD side during that meeting.
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    most of our oil is from canada and mexico, buy american so you dont support those terrorists there

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