Living here in central NH, weather does go bump in the night. Bizzards, severe thunderstorm, nor’easters, hurricanes – thankfully we get those but with some advance warning as opposed those Californians that get the “shake & bake” at almost any time with little notice (e.g., earthquakes or wildfires). You keep food around, you keep a secondary source of heat around, even water. We were here a few years ago during the great ice storm – we were out of power for almost two weeks. You prepare accordingly.
You’ve heard about the Feds purchasing lots of ammo – far beyond normal limits for stated needs. The rumor was 1.6 billion rounds, much of it for Dept. of Homeland Security (which they denied) to the point where Congressional inquiries were started. At least today, it seems that prices and availability are starting to fall and go up, respectively, and headed back to normal levels. And then I ran across this earlier this month (yeah, trying to play catch up once again):
This email was received by a company that sells preparedness and survival food stocks. What is the urgency of being able to supply rations within 24 hours?
I followed the link to IntellihHub (reformatted, emphasis mine, and as always, GRTWT):
Recently my friend Matt, the owner of MyPatriotSupply.com was contacted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by way of email, leading on that something is ready to pop off.
Matt being the patriot he is immediately contacted me with this disturbing news. He even provided screenshots of the actual email sent by a FEMA representative…“here we are, August 2013 and FEMA once again is trying to buy up large stockpiles of food. And they don’t want anyone to know it, and they want to take immediately delivery… I’ve studied history. That is what got me into preparedness in the first place. History has shown us time after time that those who depend on the government to come to their aid during a disaster are the ones waiting the longest for help. Sometimes help never comes…or comes too late.
I do not believe these critical emergency food supplies should be in the hands of the government, stored in some secret warehouse only to be brought out and distributed to their own agencies first, with the rest of us getting table scraps long after we need it.
These life-saving meals belong in the hands of people like you and me. This is why I declined the opportunity to sell to the Department of Homeland Security.
But let’s not forget the most important part of this: Why the sudden sense of urgency? What do they know that we do not? I’m not one to cry that the sky is always falling, but when DHS/FEMA make a move to quietly buy up emergency food supplies and ask how much we can ship within 24 hours…I think this is far enough outside the realm of what is “normal” to beg some questions. What is the government gearing up for? A major disaster or war they know is coming?
