My friend's husband took this picture on Wednesday.This is the bread aisle at Walmart the day before an ice storm is expected to hit.
Aaron said that when he went on Wednesday night, they were COMPLETELY OUT of milk, bread, tortillas, eggs, bottled water, and bananas.
Just a reminder of how quickly supplies can be depleted in the state of emergency.
Thank goodness for food storage.
We are thinking about purchasing a generator.
If we decide against it, then the next item on my food storage/emergency preparedness list is a hand powered grain mill, because the 400+lbs of wheat and corn that I have stored up won't really do us any good if I don't have power to grind it into flour.
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yeah, I've got to get on that whole food storage thing...
Kristin! Call me, I can help.
Meg, call Laurie. Borrow her grinder.
I have an awesome grinder. I paid a small fortune for it, but it is bomb. I just don't have a grain mill that could be used without electricity, and the way ice storms typically go...it is not unlikely that you or someone you know will be without power for days.
I walked by this SAME empty bread shelf on Wednesday and wished (in hindsight) I'd taken a photo!
As the employee came down the bottled water aisle with a pallet of water, people were pulling cases off before could place it. It was 1/2 way empty in about 45 seconds.
I've also been meaning to add a manual wheat grinder to my supplies.
When is the storm to hit?
Oh it hit last night. 2 inches of ice on the ground covered in 6-8 inches of snow and it is still falling!
The main problem here is that there are no means to take care of the ice and snow, so even when we get 1/4 inch, it is totally dangerous to drive anywhere. It sounds ridiculous, but we've had enough friends roll their SUV's and get cars stuck in ditches to know better. We are housebound for at least another 24 hours.
Not that I mind being stuck with these people. :)
Wow! Glad you are prepared. It's on my resolutions/goals this year to get more food storage/emergency supplies.
have a hand grinder and used it once to make bread
it took a while.
WOW. A picture is worth a thousand words!
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