Sit-rep in your area?

[Thor]

Area sit rep. People are bored at home sitting on their computers arguing over trivial **** irrelevant to the thread. to Kung Flu fighting.

 

[KittySlayer]

Sam's Club trip to restock some office cleaning supplies but no luck finding: Hand Soap, Sanitizer, Clorox wipes. Seeing more mask wearers than before and got to stand in line behind a young woman in yoga pants.

Went to Home Depot next but never made it out of the truck. Long line outside the store with people waiting for curbside or permission to enter. No social distancing. Gave up and went to the local Do It Best Hardware.

Do It Best had a half dozen customers. Got some personal service getting a piece of plexiglass and hardware to make a sneeze screen for our receptionist station. Will work on my project building it this evening. If I don't FUBAR it I will be going back to get supplies to build two more.

 

[Snapdragon]

Stocked up on ground beef, frozen fish, and frozen veggies at Gordons. In the frozen veggie dept they have these big bags with blends of rice, quinoa, couscous, veggies, and seasoning that make really good side dishes on the fly. I sometimes blend frozen spinach or peas/carrots blend with them.

 

[Ingomike]

There is enough data that IS available in that story to show the 80% figure as highly unlikely.

There are 2 kinds of people.

1. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

We will leave it that your opinion is better than someone in the pharmaceutical business, got it...

 

[Route 45]

We will leave it that your opinion is better than someone in the pharmaceutical business, got it...

Percentages are not a matter of opinion to those who care about the truth.

As far as credentials...well, Barack Obama once taught constitutional law. Who are you to argue with his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, skippy?

 

[Route 45]

Back to the topic at hand...Kroger and Walmart in Greenfield looking a little lean on meats of all kinds. And I don't mean the cut quality. Tyson products almost gone from both stores. Limits on ground beef. Don't know if they are just low on stock for the day, or if meat shortages are starting to hit a little.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Back to the topic at hand...Kroger and Walmart in Greenfield looking a little lean on meats of all kinds. And I don't mean the cut quality. Tyson products almost gone from both stores. Limits on ground beef. Don't know if they are just low on stock for the day, or if meat shortages are starting to hit a little.

WTHR is reporting this morning that the shortages could hit by the end of the week. There are over a billion pounds of meat in frozen storage, so the "shortage" will be for fresh meat (allegedly).

 

[ditcherman]

WTHR is reporting this morning that the shortages could hit by the end of the week. There are over a billion pounds of meat in frozen storage, so the "shortage" will be for fresh meat (allegedly).

Just a quick google search and math and assumptions way more basic than our resident unfrozen caveman statistician indicate that we eat about 4 ounces a day (they didn’t interview INGO) times 330 million people is about 12 days worth.
That will turn into 1/2 a days worth as soon as the general populace that has their “free” money and an extra 600 a week to boot plus free time figure out from the news there is a shortage. Then they’ll throw half of it away.

 

[ditcherman]

Sit rep; yesterday I saw 2 speedboats, a nice pontoon boat and 2 or 3 loads of jet skis heading east to Cicero, I would assume. Traffic in general was extremely heavy at times. Free time and gas money from uncle sugar, and the natives are growing restless.

 

[churchmouse]

Lets stay on point in this thread please. We can argue things in all the other threads that have specific titles to cover all of these topics.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Just got back from Kroger (old people's happy hour from 7 to 8 a.m.) and picked up some chicken breasts and leg quarters, a couple of big top sirloin steaks, another 4 lbs. of bacon, a roll of sausage and 2 more lbs. of ground beef. That will just about top off my freezer space with the two half pork loins I got on Saturday. I think I've got about 12 lbs. of bacon on hand now, so that will last me a couple of weeks.

Had to put the smackdown on a couple of little old ladies, but hey, if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch!

 

[ditcherman]

Just got back from Kroger (old people's happy hour from 7 to 8 a.m.) and picked up some chicken breasts and leg quarters, a couple of big top sirloin steaks, another 4 lbs. of bacon, a roll of sausage and 2 more lbs. of ground beef. That will just about top off my freezer space with the two half pork loins I got on Saturday. I think I've got about 12 lbs. of bacon on hand now, so that will last me a couple of weeks.

Had to put the smackdown on a couple of little old ladies, but hey, if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch!

What a haul!
So you’re part of the hoarding problem, not the solution, eh?

 

[asevans]

Exactly what I was thinking

 

[DoggyDaddy]

What a haul!
So you’re part of the hoarding problem, not the solution, eh?

I don't think I'll be able to hoard enough with my little refrigerator freezers to cause a problem. 1 pkg. of chicken breasts, 1 pkg. of leg quarters, 1 pkg. top sirloin. Can't really buy partial packages.

 

[Snapdragon]

It's not hoarding if you will eventually use it. I just bought 20 more lbs of ground beef yesterday, and I probably have at least a dozen chickens and a dozen beef roasts. Don't ask how much bacon or toilet paper I have.

 

[dprimm]

. Don't ask how much toilet paper I have.

i just hope is new, not used.

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

Ordered a couple meat packages from local butcher shops. Should have most of the garden in today.

 

[Snapdragon]

i just hope is new, not used.

 

[JettaKnight]

Ordered a couple meat packages from local butcher shops. Should have most of the garden in today.

At first read, I thought you were going to plant a rump roast to see if you could grow a steer.

 

[KittySlayer]

Well the liquor stores are taking full advantage of their Essential Business classification. Every store I have been to has at least a couple of people in line for the curbside service.


Went to the downtown Fort Wayne Belmont which is in the (shutdown) business district downtown. There were at least a dozen people in the lot. A van load of drywallers just loaded up and left as I pulled in. Got in line and got my three bottles of wine for my wife. Most of the rest of the youth in the parking lot were buying single bottles of fotay.