Snow Storm Causes Grocery Store Frenzy in D.C. Area
The Washington D.C. area is getting pummelled with snow. Here’s an excerpt from a Yahoo! News article on how people are emptying the grocery stores before they get snowed in. It’s a good example of why you always need to have emergency preparedness supplies on hand.
Here’s the excerpt:
In neighbouring Virginia, Laura Southard from the Department of Emergency Management urged people to dig out their battery-powered radios and stock their cupboards.
“Have your supplies ready. You’ll have to be prepared to be on your own for up to 72 hours. You definitely need three days of food and three days of water on hand per person in your household,” she said.
Learn a lesson from these people and stock up before bad weather strikes your area. For a great idea, read this post:
Here are some of the more common myths that exist regarding long term food storage:
The Government will take care of me – FEMA and other relief agencies generally take around three days to start providing help in disaster-stricken areas. However, they can not be everywhere at once, and they can not feed everyone. If you doubt this, just look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake.
It Will Never Happen to Me – The statistics say otherwise. Start asking everyone you know if they’ve been in any kind of disaster. You’ll be surprised how many will say Yes. Yet, disasters are not the only reason to have food storage. There are people right now who are eating from their food storage because they have no work and hardly any money. If it wasn’t for their food storage, their family wouldn’t have enough to eat.
Only Survivalists Have Food Storage – Actually, more and more people just like you are getting into food storage. The decline of the U.S. Dollar and the ailing U.S. financial system have made people rethink their stance on food storage. People who used to laugh at storing food are now embracing it.
Emergency Survival Food tastes awful – If you think this, then you haven’t tried any of the high quality freeze dried food from Mountain House Foods. They are gourmet meals that require only hot water to prepare.
Food Storage is Too Expensive – Determine the amount of money you spend every year going to the supermarket. When you do this and compare it to the cost of food storage, you will find that it is not out of line.
Food Storage is a Pain to Rotate – If you store canned goods, basic staples, or dehydrated foods, you will have to rotate. Mountain House Freeze Dried Food lasts for a minmum of 25 years and does not require rotation. Even if you don’t store freeze dried food, do you really find it that difficult to rotate your food stocks? Do you rotate the canned goods in your cupboard?
Preparing Food from Food Storage is a Lot of Work – That depends on what type of food you store. If you store only basic staples like wheat, sugar, beans, flour, oats, etc. (not a good idea to store just staples), you’ll have to prepare your own meals. The bottom line is that you should store the kinds of foods you are used to eating.
I Can Just Use the Food I Already Have in my House – Take a serious look at what you have in your house. If our food in mostly in a freezer, then you must realize that one of the first things to go in a disaster is electricity.
Storing Gold is Better than Storing Food – While gold and silver would be very helpful in a financial collapse, you still can’t eat them. What would you do if you couldn’t buy food for any amount of gold or silver?
Secure your family’s future. Invest in Long Term Food Storage today.
People are desparate for food in the earthquake-leveled country of Haiti. Quoting an article from Yahoo! News:
“Brazilian U.N. peacekeeping troops fired tear gas at a frenzied crowd of thousands of Haitians crowding a food handout outside the wrecked presidential palace as delays in getting help to earthquake survivors persist.
“They’re not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat,” Brazilian Army Colonel Fernando Soares said. “The problem is, there is not enough food for everyone.”
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