I thought you were north of the Red River Mate.
Seen plenty of empty shelves pre/post hurricane.
The funny thing is, it happens every time there is a storm, and it's not due to any shortage in the supply chain. My son in law works for wally world distribution. Plenty of product in the warehouse, just can't get trucks in and out to restock the stores. If these company execs would ever bother to watch the same newscast as all their shoppers do, and perhaps pay just a little bit of attention to history, they could stock the stores up before the storm hit.
Of course this little story just goes to show how ill prepared our supply chain is for a real SHTF scenario.
Takes about 72 hours for stuff to get into emergency mode. That's why 72 hours is the minimum of preps you should have.
We're already talking about what we can do to make it even better the next time something like that happens. Official preppers now I suppose.
You guys are missing the perspective of the grocer.
The customer wants the freshest food.
Places like Kroger etc get food almost every day if not every day. They probably run enough inventory to miss 1 maybe 2 deliveries. Tops. With normal demand.
2 reasons for this, cost and cost. And to a lessor extent freshness.
So a storm comes in, they miss 3-4 days worth of deliveries and the higher demand for people stocking up, you get bare shelves.