The following are excerpts from emails relayed from a highly-trusted source in North Dakota. While independent confirmation is lacking, the reliability is of the reports is high.
Areas in North Dakota are being heavily impacted by migration due to the oil finds there and this probably accounts for much of the situation.
"Yes it is---people have NO idea what can happen--or pull up to a stop light and have men leer or shout obsenities---or have someone follow you -- because you stopped at a stop sign and waited to long to move to have them follow you and threaten you with a tire iron--we all carry mace, my DIL and youngest daughter have permits and DO carry concealed weapons. We now have 24 hour security in our little Walmart parking lot with a 4 yr contract--which is probably smaller than most of your grocery stores because women were being followed and cut off from their vehicles--happened to my DIL and me youngest daughter, good thing they had cell phones and called Walmart-men employees came out and helped them. there were men that came from another state-weren't here even a week, grabbed a teacher from a small town to the west of here on her morning walk, murdered her, came right by my turn off-went to Walmart with her dead body in their van, bought garbage bags and a shovel to bury her--murdered jsut for the fun of it---we have no idea who is here--youngest daughter had a man at her window playing with it-her dog went through the window and chased the man away-now they have the dogs pen around the house,
"How often are trucks coming into your stores? If something happened, it wouldn't take long for shelves to empty-how long would it take for trucks to come in? a week, a month. 6 months or a year-then with limited amounts--when 911 happened, we did not get trucks, it wasn't this bad-when Katrina happened, they re routed trucks, things were short, and there were some empty shelves, but not this bad. My neice was in New York City when there was the hurricane threat-she took picutures on her phone and sent them--you can not imagine the people grabbing off the shelves and the empty shelves, they were lucky to be able to restock , but even for a natural disaster-- one never knows what can happen.
"We are digging out all my canning jars, my daughters and DIL are grabbing canning jars where ever they can get them-with my mothers canning jars, I know I have at least 1,500 jars-we are going for at least 2,000 jars, I am looking online for bulk lids. I wanted an Excalibur dehydrater, but we have an American harvester that has temperature controls-not that big, but will do, my brother has a big one-bigger than the excaliber-youngest daughter bought a small one, son is thinking about buying one.
"We waited until the end of season and got deals on fruit trees also- one of my sewing customers called and she will have a bumper crop of a variety of apples, cherries, pears ( very small pears, but still good pears) and son's apple tree is loaded.
"Right now--we have a Stuff Hit The Fan situation and for us-locally things might not get better for quite a while-traveling out of town -several hundres miles round trip unless one is fairly self sufficient is the only way.. even for a natural disaster-do you think the 'bad guys' will have a conscience ?"
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This was followed by another short message
"Here the shelves can be so empty-having coupons will do you no good-when there isn't the product on the shelf........
At Walmart they put pallets out and within hours-maybe not that long its gone-Albertsons is a little better, but not much-its hit and miss.
We don't drive 260 to 300 miles round trip for groceries, thank goodness we raise our own-and are prepared
Oh and its not fun to wait in line for 30 to 45 minutes -or to get ones behind grabbed or someone walk by and slip an hand under your arm and grab a breast as they go by
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"First, North Dakota’s government needs to distribute more revenue to communities impacted by the boom because area infrastructure and services are overw...
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