Is it nuts to be prepping for a food shortage?

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Anonymous wrote:No because she isn't wrong.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/the-rhine-is-inches-from-being-too-shallow-for-shipments?sref=frV97TwV

Because barges are at risk of not being able to get up and down the Rhine River in Germany people are filling their garage with food?

I guess you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:She also thinks that China is trying to sabotage our infrastructure.

Now this might be closer to the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:So many crazy people in one thread. It draws them in like moths to a porch light.

You are all insane.

Speak for yourself.

I do. And I’m speaking as the NOT crazy one here, honey!

Do you really, actually think, in your little hamster wheel trumper brain, that we’re going to *run out of food*? Seriously????


It’s ok, darling. The adults are in charge, and the President (the current one. I mean. The one you don’t like) isn’t going to let the country run out of food.


You all sound like a paranoid nutters, the whole lot of you on this thread. All of you need intensive mental health therapy in a secure facility where you cannot leave.

We can't even figure out how to stop 20-year-old pimple-faced active shooters. Let that sink in.

Not when politicians demand cops to stand down, rather than do what they were trained to do (stop the killers).

Or when they're so cowardly that they stand down all by themselves, you mean, no politicians required? Cowards.

Didn’t you see the recently released videos of the hallway outside the Uvalde classroom??? You’d see a white man wearing a black polo shirt with his hands up, literary blocking cops wanting to go into the classroom. Who the hell is that man preventing cops from getting to the children? Open your eyeballs, people.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Few people own enough land to grow food to sustain their families; and your "neighbors" would take it from you anyways.

NP - Thankfully, we live away from DC most of the time. My neighbors grow their own food as well. No one is taking anything. I would love to see someone try. We have two large German Shepherds and we are armed. I’m a liberal Dem in favor of strict gun control. But I’m not stupid. No one would get past our gate.

We grow about 70% of our fruits and veggies. We have chickens that lay plenty for our family plus enough to share. We live in the country where wildlife is plentiful. We have a well plus a pond on our property. And I have food stored that would last my family (including my adult kids) at least six months. We are always prepared.

I don’t think we will see massive food shortages.

If it's bad enough someone will shoot and eat your dogs if they're allowed outside. (Source--mother who grew up in wartime/post war Germany.)

Yes, after six years of a devastating war that destroyed a great deal of their infrastructure people would shoot and eat your dog. All the animals in the Berlin Zoo were killed and eaten and most of the trees in Berlin were cut down for firewood. The Russians quite literally raped their way through Berlin.

I'm certainly not of the mindset that it could never happen here, but we are light years away from it.

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Anonymous wrote:So many crazy people in one thread. It draws them in like moths to a porch light.

You are all insane.

Speak for yourself.

I do. And I’m speaking as the NOT crazy one here, honey!

Do you really, actually think, in your little hamster wheel trumper brain, that we’re going to *run out of food*? Seriously????


It’s ok, darling. The adults are in charge, and the President (the current one. I mean. The one you don’t like) isn’t going to let the country run out of food.


You all sound like a paranoid nutters, the whole lot of you on this thread. All of you need intensive mental health therapy in a secure facility where you cannot leave.

We can't even figure out how to stop 20-year-old pimple-faced active shooters. Let that sink in.

Not when politicians demand cops to stand down, rather than do what they were trained to do (stop the killers).

Or when they're so cowardly that they stand down all by themselves, you mean, no politicians required? Cowards.

Didn’t you see the recently released videos of the hallway outside the Uvalde classroom??? You’d see a white man wearing a black polo shirt with his hands up, literary blocking cops wanting to go into the classroom. Who the hell is that man preventing cops from getting to the children? Open your eyeballs, people.

Uh, a politician?

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Few people own enough land to grow food to sustain their families; and your "neighbors" would take it from you anyways.

No the motherf***ing squirrels, rabbits, and voles will get to it before your neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Not the OP, but I live in an apartment without a balcony or fire escape and no direct sunlight. I can't even keep a plant alive in my apartment. Not everyone has the privilege of being able to grow their own food.

Learning to grow a plant isn’t a privilege. Poor people around the world have done it for centuries just to survive.

Elites should take their hate politics elsewhere.

Prepping is an elite activity. And people all over the world grow food and still manage to go hungry.

It really isn't. Look at the prepper community and also remember the Mormons are the ultimate preppers...The current LDS church asks members to have 1 year of supplies at all times and always has. If a kid is in a house-share, they are still encouraged to have 2 weeks for each person in the home. So are LDS ppl not normal?

Look, I grew up around a lot of Mormons and have known a lot more since. To a person, with the exception of one guy, they were lovely people and I enjoyed/enjoy their company, but no, this is not normal in the larger population.

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Anonymous wrote:I am mostly sane, but I too have begun prepping. Each week for the past several weeks, I have spent an additional $100 dollars on items to store. I plan to continue this pattern until my garage is full. I have also resumed shopping at Walmart instead of Giant. There is no getting around that Giant prices are now beyond what I view as reasonable. $100 goes far at Walmart vs. one bag at Giant.

If nothing happens, then I will have a ton to donate to a food kitchen. We all win.

I still go to Giant for the gas points.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Few people own enough land to grow food to sustain their families; and your "neighbors" would take it from you anyways.

NP - Thankfully, we live away from DC most of the time. My neighbors grow their own food as well. No one is taking anything. I would love to see someone try. We have two large German Shepherds and we are armed. I’m a liberal Dem in favor of strict gun control. But I’m not stupid. No one would get past our gate.

We grow about 70% of our fruits and veggies. We have chickens that lay plenty for our family plus enough to share. We live in the country where wildlife is plentiful. We have a well plus a pond on our property. And I have food stored that would last my family (including my adult kids) at least six months. We are always prepared.

I don’t think we will see massive food shortages.

If it's bad enough someone will shoot and eat your dogs if they're allowed outside. (Source--mother who grew up in wartime/post war Germany.)

Yes, after six years of a devastating war that destroyed a great deal of their infrastructure people would shoot and eat your dog. All the animals in the Berlin Zoo were killed and eaten and most of the trees in Berlin were cut down for firewood. The Russians quite literally raped their way through Berlin.

I'm certainly not of the mindset that it could never happen here, but we are light years away from it.

In which parallel universe did this happen? I've slipped through so many wormholes at this point that I can't keep up. I swear I've never heard of this...

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Anonymous wrote:I am mostly sane, but I too have begun prepping. Each week for the past several weeks, I have spent an additional $100 dollars on items to store. I plan to continue this pattern until my garage is full. I have also resumed shopping at Walmart instead of Giant. There is no getting around that Giant prices are now beyond what I view as reasonable. $100 goes far at Walmart vs. one bag at Giant.

If nothing happens, then I will have a ton to donate to a food kitchen. We all win.

I still go to Giant for the gas points.

Maybe this deserves a spinoff thread, but I'm starting to think the whole Giant gas points thing is a sham. The last few times the 20/30 cents per gallon have not reflected. You have to watch closely. I've used the points for years and never really watched it until recently.

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Anonymous wrote:It's nuts if you don't prepare to some extent.

Exactly.

I grew up in Florida and the rule of thumb during hurricane season is that you should be prepared to go without electricity or running water for some period of time - 3 days? 3 weeks? I can’t remember the duration. And if there was no electricity or water the roads were likely impassible because of downed trees and power lines and stores and restaurants could be closed. We usually had a few gallons of water, some canned food, bread in the freezer, extra peanut butter, some shelf stable stuff on hand just in case. We did sometimes have to use that food after a storm.

I assume there are also guidelines about being prepared for winter storms, tornadoes, and earthquakes in other parts of the country.

Point is, I think that some level of prepping is really quite normal and rational for a lot of people. A garage full of supplies seems a bit extreme, but I also get it that after the last couple of years in particular people want to feel like they’re in control of something.

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Even at the height of the pandemic and supply chain disruptions, the grocery stores were full of food. They were just full of food that no one really wanted to hoard or eat. It was food. It was edible. People just didn’t want to eat it 🤷

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Anonymous wrote:I can't tell if this thread is many crazy people, just a handful who keep posting, or it's just a bunch of smart-a$$es who keep feeding the trolls.

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+1 however I still remember a thread around march 2020 Of someone asking what to tell their kids when people start dying from COVID on the streets. There is crazy people on DCUM.

I'm confused-- what lie was told? There were massive deaths from Covid. Folks were literally dropping dead.

On the streets in the DMV area?

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Anonymous wrote:OP - this site is the wrong place to ask this. There a quite a few preppers lurking here.

So they should only ask if they get the answer they want to hear? I'm surprised how many people so far -- nearly unanimous -- are prepping to some extent. I think COVID has taught everyone that yes, shit does sometimes happen and it's good to be prepared.

Well I think OP was looking for answers from normal people to feel out how off base her mother is - and so far the answers are not from normal people. Sorry, they just aren’t.

And as I said, I am not surprised by the initial posts. There have been several threads like this on DCUM and the prepped said respond immediately. The normal folks are just rolling their eyes and not responding.

Well you're proving my point -- you only want to hear from people with one perspective, and agreeing with you makes that normal. Seems like a surprising number of people are prepping to some extent. So I guess that's normal now.

I count 8, and that's assuming no people double posted, which absolutely isn't the case. That doesn't make it normal.

Also, there's a big difference between "I'll keep a few extra items in the basement" and . . . you people.

So don't stock up. No one cares if you do or not. OP was asking if it's nuts. Apparently it's not nuts to others, even if it seems nuts to you.

Of course the nuts people don’t think it’s nuts. Remember, millions of Americans believe “Q” prophecies and will tell you they’re not nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Few people own enough land to grow food to sustain their families; and your "neighbors" would take it from you anyways.

NP - Thankfully, we live away from DC most of the time. My neighbors grow their own food as well. No one is taking anything. I would love to see someone try. We have two large German Shepherds and we are armed. I’m a liberal Dem in favor of strict gun control. But I’m not stupid. No one would get past our gate.

We grow about 70% of our fruits and veggies. We have chickens that lay plenty for our family plus enough to share. We live in the country where wildlife is plentiful. We have a well plus a pond on our property. And I have food stored that would last my family (including my adult kids) at least six months. We are always prepared.

I don’t think we will see massive food shortages.

If it's bad enough someone will shoot and eat your dogs if they're allowed outside. (Source--mother who grew up in wartime/post war Germany.)

Yes, after six years of a devastating war that destroyed a great deal of their infrastructure people would shoot and eat your dog. All the animals in the Berlin Zoo were killed and eaten and most of the trees in Berlin were cut down for firewood. The Russians quite literally raped their way through Berlin.

I'm certainly not of the mindset that it could never happen here, but we are light years away from it.

In which parallel universe did this happen? I've slipped through so many wormholes at this point that I can't keep up. I swear I've never heard of this...

I heard from a tour guide on a Berlin bike tour years ago and it appears he may have exaggerated a little according to this article, although it does mention hungry Germans killing and eating animals. The majority were killed in bombings. Another article says Russian soldiers butchered some for meat.

https://historycollection.com/the-tragic-ordeal-of-the-berlin-zoo-in-world-war-ii/3/