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Ardent Listener
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 Posted - 02/10/2010 : 19:11:29
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During the blizzard of 1957 the city of Ashtabula, Ohio quickly found itself without food on the store shelves. The National Guard use tanks to transport doctors to the hospital. I was talking to a guy today who was a teenager then working in a Grocery store. He and a couple of other employees were sent walking across town looking for food at local bakeries and dairies to restock the store. The little they could find and bring back almost caused a riot as hungry shoppers rushed to buy it.
Now in Ashtabula there are fewer bakeries and no local dairies. It would be even worse. Much worse.
Stock food that doesn't need cooking or refrigeration.
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Shattered
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 19:22:15
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| Obviously not as bad as that, but I just went to the store for my mom and got the last gallon of milk. Food can run out fast in blizzard conditions. |
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Nickelless
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Ponce
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Cuba
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Posted - 02/11/2010 : 00:44:29
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| All that I can say is......"Be ready today and you wont be sorry tomorrow". |
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caridad
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 13:08:42
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| don't forget the water. for the rest of us we won't have snow to melt and filter. |
ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU SELF SUFFICIENT? ARE YOU GREEN???? |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 15:55:25
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| Carida? my water come by gravity for free from a creek.....in ten years it has never run dry, also have a 2,500 and a 500 black storage tank just in case.....also in case of a forest fire. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/13/2010 : 18:44:26
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Originally posted by Ponce
All that I can say is......"Be ready today and you wont be sorry tomorrow".
Or you could just eat BACON  |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
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Posted - 02/13/2010 : 20:34:50
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| "Only so much bacon can a Cuban eat" hahahahahahahahaha. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Nickelless
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 19:37:49
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I think this goes along well with Ardent's original post at top:
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By SARAH KARUSH
Associated Press Writer
TAKOMA PARK, Md. — As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?
The two snowstorms that pummeled the region, leaving more than 3 feet of snow in some areas, deprived tens of thousands of children from Virginia to Pennsylvania of the free or reduced-price school lunch that may be their only nutritious meal of the day. The nonprofits that try to meet the need when school is not in session also closed their doors for much of the week, leaving many families looking at bare cupboards. And many parents working hourly jobs were unable to earn any money during the week, as the snow forced businesses to close.
Caplon is a food services supervisor for Montgomery County Public Schools, where about 43,000 children are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Some also get breakfast, dinner and bags of staple foods to take home for the weekend. The snow days meant children would get none of that until Tuesday, because schools are closed Monday for Presidents Day.
"We've been bothered by this all week," Caplon said.
So Caplon arranged for Manna Food Center, a local food bank whose board she chairs, to bring boxes of food Friday to two still-closed elementary schools. Officials used the school district's automated phone system to notify parents of the distribution.
At Rolling Terrace Elementary School, a stream of people walked up to a Manna truck in the school's bus bay Friday. They filled plastic shopping bags with cans of soup, vegetables and beans, ground beef and Rice Krispy Treats.
"Everybody's at home, and everybody's eating," said Jacquelyn Garcia, 39, who came to pick up food for her family of five. "I have nothing left in my house."
Manna's effort brought out smiles and expressions of gratitude. But the approximately 200 families who came to pick up provisions represent just a fraction of the need in Montgomery County, let alone the entire snow-battered region.
In Philadelphia, where public schools opened only one day this week, nearly 86,000 free lunches are served every day. In Baltimore, where schools were closed all week, a district spokeswoman estimated about 50,000 students take advantage of free and reduced-priced meals. The District of Columbia, which has had no school the entire week, has 32,000 public school students eligible for the program. Schools in Fairfax County, Va., which have about the same number of eligible students, have been closed since Feb. 5, when the first of the two storms rolled in.
Otto Tambito, a Fairfax County father of two, said his family burned through much of its savings during the week off from school and work. Tambito works as a window cleaner and an electrician, but was unable to travel to jobs. His wife, who cleans houses for a living, was in the same boat.
"We hope that thing melts down and we start again," he said.
Maritza Hernandez, a 32-year-old mother who came to pick up food Friday, said her usual baby-sitting income dried up during the snow days, and her husband had no work either. The couple and their 5-year-old son survived all week on beans, tortillas and the occasional egg, she said.
"We were sad that we didn't have enough to go shopping," she said.
Nationwide, about 19.4 million students received free or reduced-price lunches on a typical school day last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Student hunger during breaks in the school year is not a new a concern. The Agriculture Department runs a summer food program to help fill the gap, though it doesn't reach everybody.
"The demand for emergency food for families with children in the summertime goes up," said Crystal FitzSimons, director of school programs at the Washington-based Food Research and Action Center, a nonprofit that fights hunger in the U.S. "Parents are more likely to skip meals, so their kids can eat."
The storm-related school closures were arguably more problematic because the emergency assistance typically provided by food pantries was also unavailable.
In Baltimore, the Bea Gaddy Family Centers opened Monday, but had to close Tuesday ahead of the second storm. The organization provides food, shelter and clothing to those in need.
"We tried to give out what we had to hold people over," said executive director Cynthia Brooks. "A lot of the people couldn't get up to the pantry because of the snow from the last storm." |
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 20:09:22
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| That is true, so many children in our school district get their meals only at school. You often will see them putting food in napkins to take home to their younger siblings who don't attend school yet. |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 22:06:08
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| Ardent? you make me feel guilty as hell reading about those kids....but then.... I think of the Palestinian kids who can't even play outside without the Israelis killing them.....kids here are lucky. |
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Nickelless
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Nickelless
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 22:50:12
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Originally posted by Ardent Listener
During the blizzard of 1957 the city of Ashtabula, Ohio quickly found itself without food on the store shelves. The National Guard use tanks to transport doctors to the hospital. I was talking to a guy today who was a teenager then working in a Grocery store. He and a couple of other employees were sent walking across town looking for food at local bakeries and dairies to restock the store. The little they could find and bring back almost caused a riot as hungry shoppers rushed to buy it.
Now in Ashtabula there are fewer bakeries and no local dairies. It would be even worse. Much worse.
Stock food that doesn't need cooking or refrigeration.
Jamie, I was just Googling different details of that blizzard and can't seem to find anything about any unrest during that blizzard. Do you have any links? |
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billo
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Nickelless
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 07:22:04
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Originally posted by Nickelless
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Originally posted by Ardent Listener
During the blizzard of 1957 the city of Ashtabula, Ohio quickly found itself without food on the store shelves. The National Guard use tanks to transport doctors to the hospital. I was talking to a guy today who was a teenager then working in a Grocery store. He and a couple of other employees were sent walking across town looking for food at local bakeries and dairies to restock the store. The little they could find and bring back almost caused a riot as hungry shoppers rushed to buy it.
Now in Ashtabula there are fewer bakeries and no local dairies. It would be even worse. Much worse.
Stock food that doesn't need cooking or refrigeration.
Jamie, I was just Googling different details of that blizzard and can't seem to find anything about any unrest during that blizzard. Do you have any links?
No, just reports from those who were around back then. Their local newspaper, The Star Beacon, may still have the story on microfilm but I don't know if they have it online.
But back then such stories were rather common. Governments didn't have the snow removal equipment like they had now and no one had four wheel drive except for maybe an jeep or two. During one storm my Grandfather was stuck at work at the local power plant. He could have walked home, but there was no one who could come in to replace him. The guys there were out of food so my Grandmother cooked a Turkey and walked it up to them. |
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Fatboy
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USA
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Posted - 02/16/2010 : 06:56:19
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| My eyes were opened a few years ago. We had always had a months food in the pantry, maybe had a bit of food boredom from it but we wouldn't have been hungry. I was at the local supermarket in the morning of the day before Thanksgiving, I sat down in the front of the store on the "old guys" bench while my wife checked out. I looked and saw like 15 registers all open with 5-7 carts fully loaded down waiting to pay for their "stuff". I thought, what happens if the truck stop delivering and the entire town is here not just folks buying Thanksgiving dinner? When my wife got through the line, I made her sit down and watch for a while. Since that day, we have taken our "food insurance" seriously. I just wish everyone would, then we wouldn't have any issues when the storm does come. |
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nologiks
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Posted - 03/02/2010 : 19:06:48
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I was finally enlightened when Katrina came through, the whole city was in unrest! They were fighting for food, they were killing for stupid stuff. They went without clean water for weeks, I know I am not 100% prepared for every disaster, but If i would have been in the wake of Katrina with no preps.. Man I would have been fighting for survival as well.. I cant blame them for the unrest, they were fighting for survival.. I know some were bad apples(looting) but people were searching for food too.
Now if something like that happens in my neck of woods, I know I will be a litte better off.
I know I will never be fully prepared, But, I don't think it is possible to be prepared for everything.
I know a ounce of prevention(prep) is worth a pound of cure.!! |
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