For a good time, get on the "Ready Made Resources" emailing list.
An' I quote:
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In a recent email to our customers, some questioned our urgency to buy food during all the clamour amongst the American public to buy guns and ammo lately. You have seen what happened to the supply of guns and ammunition, it has disappeared almost overnight. If this happened to the food supply would you be ready? So let's go through the numbers and see why YOU should be buying food right now and get ahead of the game before its too late.
) Imminent collapse of the U.S. Dollars We have literately printed trillions in debt and owe 100's of trillions in unfunded liabilities.
) Hyper-Inflation is on the way. We have already seen most food prices double in the last 2 years alone!
) Historic high gas prices have effected and will continue to effect the high price of food.
) Back to back world crop failures, historic droughts world wide especially in the midwest of America.
) If we see a collapse of the dollar, the potential for government food rationing is high. There are already 2 executive orders that give the president the right to control all food supplies.
Don't waste time any longer. You and your family are going to look back on these days as an opportunity to stock up on food storage items that will soon be impossible to get.
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So, in short, everybody should panic, but don't forget: buy a year's supply of Mountain House Freeze Dried "Food" for a special discount!
(That said, being able to survive for 3 weeks without utility water, power, or access to food should be pretty high on your list of things to get ready if you live in the Bay Area, since there are many scenarios where you'll need it. Biggest and costliest problem: long-term storage of water.)