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Dramatic cold spell sweeping across half the USA is already causing catastrophic food crop failures (Natural News) Once upon a time so-called “preppers” — people who believe they should be prepared for any and all possible scenarios including the great apocalypse — were deemed ‘crazies,’ though mostly by city folks who believe, falsely, that grocery stores magically have endless supplies of food. The fact is grocery stores don’t have much fresh food stock at all, and limited supplies of long-term shelf items. Once the delivery trucks stop coming, they’ll run out of grub pretty quickly. What would cause those delivery trucks to stop? Widespread power outages. Large-scale cyberattack on computer systems that run trucking operations. War. And natural disasters, such as weather. As reported by Michael Snyder at End of the American Dream, it’s not being discussed much beyond local media reporting, but record cold temperatures have arrived early in the United States this year, and they’re having a devastating effect on crops. He reports:
A Veterans Day report from USA Today noted that it was “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” as cold temperatures swept across the country: A wintry weather pattern that brought single-digit temperatures and more than a foot of snow to parts of the Upper Midwest rolled across a wide swath of the nation Monday, threatening to break hundreds of records and bring a deep freeze as far south as Florida. The power of the elements: Discover Colloidal Silver Mouthwash with quality, natural ingredients like Sangre de Drago sap, black walnut hulls, menthol crystals and more. Zero artificial sweeteners, colors or alcohol. Learn more at the Health Ranger Storeand help support this news site. “The coldest surge of arctic air so far this season will bring widespread record low temperatures for much of the central and eastern U.S. even down to the Gulf Coast,” Kwan-Yin Kong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center, told the paper. In all, more than 300 low temperature records were expected to fall throughout this week, according to the weather service. Worse, the cold temps dipped deep into the South, where crops were still set to be harvested. And up north, the temps are even more severe, meaning the crop damage is worse. (Related: These 10 items are cheap now but they will be invaluable after SHTF.) Wet, cold weather has taken its toll
All of which goes to show that anyone who takes prepping seriously is going to be light years ahead of the majority of Americans who will have nothing if or when the stores run out of produce and other goods to sell because farmers couldn’t grow enough last year. Sources include:
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