Stockpiling for tough times

Dan Bates / The Herald Darren Davis pours oats into cans while Cherrideth Campbell packs them and passes them down to Andrea Sifuentes at the Bishop's Storehouse in Mukilteo on Tuesday.

[tex]

Does Hannah Rebekah have a pantry in her fifth wheel or do they pull a pantry trailer behind the fifth wheel?

We were told stockpile water and essentials before Hurricane Katrina and Rita? My friend thought beefaroni was gross. I told her it might taste pretty good if you had gone without food for a few days?

I have no problem with people stockpiling food and water if it makes them feel better. Warehouses are good, but you can't get there in a hurricane. We saw the shelves depleted. You couldn't find bottled water in some cases. I got any kind of liquid drink I could find.

I also got wood and other things to grill after the hurricane in case we didn't have power and filled up all the trashcans with water to use for other things.

A lot of people had no clue what to do in a hurricane.

[turk]

Um, Tex, we don't have hurricanes up here.

This sounds like Y2K all over again. The people that were SELLING all the survival goods made a killing; the people that were BUYING all the survival goods are still eating beans and baking with stale flour.

[Tex]

My friend from Nebraska had no clue what to do either and refused to buy canned spaghetti or beefaroni because it's just so gross and she cooks from scratch. She had a huge freezer full of stuff, but if the elec. went out, she would lose everything.

I had about 2 laundry baskets of emergency food and it's long since gone.

It was really scary when the winds came. We had only a few hours without power. My friend from Nebraska drove to her in-laws in Arkansas and had tornadoes and loss of power. It was worse there than here. She has since moved there with her family full-time.