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"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> Gary wrote:
>>Ophelia wrote:
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>>> My store would carry us through approx. 9-10 months.

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>>MREs would be a good thing to stock up on but they are expensive. Go
>>live in a 3rd world country though and our military hands them out to
>>citizens like candy, free of charge. And bottled water too.

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> I must have at least two years worth of food, for the cats too. Water
> is no big problem unless the creek stops running and in twelve years
> has never stopped... and I have enough propane to boil creek water for
> a very long time although I doubt with how fast it runs and with all
> the little fish and frogs it's polluted. Plus I have a lot of bottled
> water. I must have Crystal Palace for two years too. Of course I'd
> run out of fresh veggies in a couple three weeks but I have cases and
> cases of canned... I love canned veggies, spinach and beets are my
> favs. And I must have 500 cans of beans of all kinds.
> I don't keep all this food for emergencies, it's just normal for me...
> were I to concern myself with emergency provisions I'd likely have
> like twenty years worth.


As I have pointed out in the past, there are more reasons to keep a good
store than the world caving in.

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