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Title: Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard is bare
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Published: Feb 10, 2010
Author: Prepare
Post Date: 2010-02-10 11:04:49 by Jethro Tull
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I knew it was a bad sign when all the Arnott57;s Milk Arrowroot biscuits had sold out from two stores on the weekend. We are cut off in the Far North up here. Roads and rail are impassable with rivers that have burst their banks. Poor Ingham is still under water (The water peaked at over 12 metres). Even the Internet was cut off in Cairns yesterday due to flooding. The supermarkets are in dire straits. A ship has been chartered to bring containers of groceries up from Townsville. This was my local supermarket today. How lonely does this eggplant / aubergine look? This was the fresh produce section, but the empty shelves were repeated in almost every aisle. Most alarming of all was the rapidly thinning chocolate aisle. If it keeps going at this rate, I57;ll have to break into and, heaven forbid, share my Secret Stash soon. And to top it all off? There could be a chance of not 1, but 2 more cyclones by the weekend. Still, there might be a market for scalping chocolate and milk arrowroot biscuits! Listening to: The Acorn, Flood Pt 1 Poster Comment: These pics are from a Michigan Blog. It's pretty typical of what stores look like during and after heavy snow. Now, if snow can cause this, imagine what some other event would do. If this doesn't motivate people to stash some food, nothing will.
Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard is bare
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
scary.
It's not a matter of no food so much as a demonstration of the failings of the JIT inventory system (Just In Time). JIT is absolutely wonderful for inventory management in one sense, but man, come one glitch and suddenly you're out of everything. These pics should be absolute proof to all comers of the value of keeping ample food reserves in one's home.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
wish i could grow bananas in my backyard ;)
#2. To: christine (#1)
#3. To: SonOfLiberty (#2)
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