Fuck it. Time to WFH for a couple weeks. I'm going to miss the free espresso.
A can of beans has around 350 calories, a pound of uncooked rice has 1700 calories
Assuming you want to avoid losing weight, you'll want around 2000 calories/day.
So you'll need 180 cans of beans and 180 lbs of rice. A 5 gallon bucket of rice weighs around 40 lbs so that's 5 5 gallon buckets.
And you'll want more than rice and beans, so you'd want to store more than that.
I don't think many people realistically have the space, money, or inclination to store that much food, especially families.
2 lbs of Black Beans is $2.22. (figure it to make 4 cans worth).
So about $190 gets that.
I'd throw in a bunch of Ramen Noodles (pro bachelor tip).
https://www.menards.com/main/c-1528988295732.htm?searchTermT...
Lots of variety, cheap, easy to fix meal for 5-6 people.
I didn't say it's impossible, but not realistic to expect all or even most Americans to stockpile that much food... especially when the government insists everything is under control.
Right by the ammo locker.
Secondly, the idea is not to survive apocalypse - even having a week's supply will enable you to weather the worst of it, and give you confidence. I think it's an investment well worth it.
I'm not the one that recommended storing 6 months of food, I was replying to that post saying it's unrealistic. I keep 2-3 weeks of food (and 1 week of water) stashed away for an emergency.
Actually, I have 2 water filters, the primary one is a LifeStraw Family that claims to be a purifier that can filter both bacteria and viruses and will last for 5000 gallons), and I have a small hiking filter (a katadyn, I think) and some purifying tablets as well.
I also have a "WaterBob" bathtub water bladder so if there's a disaster where I still have water and think I might lose it (like if there's an earthquake+power failure, I might have water for a few hours), I can fill it and store 60 - 80 gallons of water.
Oh, and like you, I have a tank style water heater so have 40 gallons (150 liters) of water in my hot water heater that will probably be salvageable unless the earthquake knocks it loose from its straps or there's a water contamination issue (which the filter will probably work for). In that case, the house may not be livable either, so I'll probably be in a shelter anyway.
This was all pretty cheap, excluding the hiking filter (which I owned anyway and cost over $100), I paid around $80 for everything.
I just looked online and the Lifestraw is selling for $170, I paid less than a third of that price, might be a lot of people buying them now so inventory is scarce.
Stockpiling some water makes more sense in California where the water is piped in from far away and we are at risk of big earthquakes that can break those pipes.
In an apartment, your best bet for adding water storage is probably stackable 7 gallon jugs like this: https://www.rei.com/product/618168/reliance-aqua-tainer-7-ga...
A gallon per day per person is enough.
If you have land and want to store more, you could get 55 gallon water barrels.
She'd never be able to lift a 60 lb 7 gallon jug to carry it upstairs from the garage to our living space, I'm not even sure she can safely tip it over to spill enough water to make it light enough to carry.
unfortunately, you don't know you'll be fine or even probably fine (which applies for everyone else, too), and it's unhelpful to be propagating such misinformation.
It is obvious that we still have a lot to learn about how bad it is actually going to be, and it is obvious that a lot of the figures we've received so far are untrustworthy.
UC Davis's coverage of this case is less optimistic:
> approximately 80 percent do not exhibit symptoms that would require hospitalization
[ https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/newly-diagnosed-c... ]
Barring total societal collapse, that is.