It started with the rona lockdowns.
We experienced it every time we went to the grocery store or our leaders “allowed” us to enjoy inside dining.
Now it’s come up again with the weather, outages, etc. of the last week.
As long as the snow melts, Spring comes, stores of food are not empty, and we’re “allowed” to produce like we used to, should solve the problem in a matter of a growing season, right?
I wonder. If getting rid of the President, trashing the economy, making more people sick, killing the elderly, closing small business, and putting people out of work isn’t enough for us all to be on the government dole, then what would?
Food shortages? Stand in line for your government cheese?
If you are a farmer, I’d HIGHLY suggest you test your soil after the “snow event” melts away.
If you know any farmers, tell them to test their soil after the snow melts.
I’m not trying to be an alarmist or instill fear. My mind always returns to “any means necessary”. Soil testing is merely a logical step based on their own admission.
Once we believed many things our government would never do. We’ve seen much in the last 5 years or so to open our eyes.
They have a plan and are many steps ahead of us. We must remain vigilant in our efforts to uncover all the pieces of that plan.
8 replies on “Hearing a Lot of Talk About Food Shortages”
I live in Montana. We normally have weeks during winter with lows in the -20’s and day time highs near or below zero. We never make the news. What happened in Texas and some of the other affected southern states is they have no infrastructure to withstand the extreme weather. If I was to bet money Texas et al isn’t going to invest in being ready for the next such weather event either. Some solutions being as simple as not putting your plumbing on outside walls. Going to have to rebuild anyhow, have a better plan.
Here, when ranchers lose cattle to winter storms, or hay to fire, those who were spared share. Will Texans do that?
This was the third time since 1898 that Brownsville TX had snow. How much is it worth to “invest in being ready for the next such weather event” when it’s only once every other generation?
“Here, when ranchers lose cattle to winter storms, or hay to fire, those who were spared share. Will Texans do that?”
They do it all the time. That’s why you hardly ever hear of hurricanes being “a disaster” when they hit Texas. Ike put half a million people without power for 2 weeks, but it was no big deal. By the time the Highway Department got there, much less FEMA, most of the work was already done. It took Harvey sitting in one spot for 4 days, dumping a foot and a half of rain a day, to make it “a disaster.”
100% of Texas’ orange crop is lost, along with 80% of the grapefruit crop, and the rest is only fit for juice.
There were a lot of dairy farmers pouring milk down the drain because there was no way to pasteurize it before it went bad.
There were a lot of chicks, chickens and calves lost to the cold, mainly from loss of power to run heating systems.
All of that is going to affect the process of bringing things back to normal production.
In immediate terms, the shortages we’re seeing right now, I can give you a very simple (and if you think about it, obvious) answer: When trucks can’t roll, bad things happen.
I’m a truck driver. I worked ONE day last week. The rest were called off due to weather. Friday, the one day I did work, I went from Dallas to Austin and back. Every single overpass between those two places had black ice under it. Traffic had melted the snow, but it was in eternal shade, so there was no sunshine to cook off the water. So it stayed there until dark, when the temperature dropped back into the toilet. Presto, black ice. It was a wild, scary ride. I saw lots of accidents along that route.
Don’t get me wrong, I freely admit that statists would happily make us all dependent on government largesse if they could… in a heartbeat. But all of the above happened, and the government had no control over it, and so far as I can tell, the above could have achieved what we are seeing without the government doing a single thing.
The only bad thing I see government being a factor in for last week was climate change fearmongering, leading to demanding dependency on wind and solar. Well, we see how that worked out. Texas has more natural gas than any place on Earth, and here we had people on the Gulf Coast sleeping in their cars, running them all night, to keep from freezing to death.
I love those ruby reds. 🙁
Texas is my neighbor and I was lucky to keep power and water during this crazy snow.
People don’t understand that southern states (whose weather history goes back more than a hundred years) rarely, if ever, get this kind of snow (let alone 70% of the entire country at once).
Southern states don’t have a fleet of snow plows, their houses are constructed differently by climate, and I’m sure preparedness for “SHTF” isn’t what it could be.
Here the plows do the Interstate and main “B” roads. Everything else is untouched. So, if you don’t have a snow mobile or snow cat (like in CO or UT), we were stuck at home for 7 days. Even the “good ‘ol boys” in their 4WD couldn’t handle the thick ice.
When the weatherman says, “Snow coming” people raid the stores. When the snow comes, even if it’s like just a dusting, everything closes. No work, no grocery stores, no gas stations open. People don’t know how to drive in the snow, much less ice.
Yesterday was the 1st day we could get out and it was tricky. So the grocery stores got over run because they’d been closed for days. People have no stores of food for the most part.
I’m sure other states will share with other states what they can, but with 70% of the country going through this at the same time, scarcity is.
I’m fond of saying that in Texas, when someone spills the ice from their drink, they close the schools.
When my son was a fairly new driver, he got into a one car fender bender because of icy bridges during a cold snap. He asked me for advice on driving in bad conditions, and asked about 4WD. I stand by what I told him then: If you do something stupid in bad traction conditions, a 4WD won’t keep you from going straight to hell just like you would in a 2WD… it’ll just keep you from doing it sideways.
So far as I can tell, there isn’t a single decent snowplow anywhere in Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin, Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson, Parker and Wise counties. Not. One.
Give us a hurricane, we’re ready. This? There are very few who have any idea how to deal with this. It’ll make the guy who uses his Prius as a display stand for his bumper sticker collection slow down to 15 mph… but it won’t convince him to get out of the left lane of the freeway.
“…rarely, if ever, get this kind of weather…”
I heard somewhere that there was snow on the ground in Brownsville this time around. The southernmost point in Texas. Supposedly that’s only the third time that has happened since 1898.
Yep, I get it! 🙂
I find it totally “weird” that about 70% of the whole country caught this storm.
I wonder how many times that has happened in history. (?)
Maybe like TX, 1898. Or maybe never.
Are you implying that the government created the weather?