Myanmar and the example it offers | Notes From The Bunker

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Natural disaster strikes, thousands dead, many times that left homeless. And, the natural results follow:

On Wednesday, Yangon’s 6.5 million residents faced prices for rice, charcoal and bottled water that were double the usual rate.

Vendors were selling bottled water 500 kyat — 50 cents — a liter, more than double the normal price. A standard 70-pound bag of rice, a staple of the Burmese diet, had doubled in price to $40 — an astronomical price in a country where many scrape by on $2 a day.

Cooking oil, another basic necessity, was priced at $7 per kilogram, up from $4.

Some residents waited in lines for nine hours or more to buy gasoline to fuel generators and their cars. At one gas station in the Yangon suburb of Sanchaung, fistfights broke out, with weary residents hitting each other with sticks after someone tried to cut in line.

….Electricity was restored in a small portion of Yangon Wednesday but most city residents, who rely on electric wells, had no water.

The streets of Yangon were filled Tuesday with residents carrying buckets to bring water from monasteries or buy it from households with generators that could pump it from wells. The main plant of Dagon Ice Factory, a drinking water brand, turned people away, posting signs saying “no more.”
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“The big concern is waterborne diseases. So that’s why it’s crucial to get safe water in. Then mosquito nets, cooking kits and clothing in the next few days,” he said. “Food is not an emergency priority. Water and shelter are.”

You dont have to be psychic to know that after a disaster the prices on whatever critical goods are still available will skyrocket. Keep in mind Myanmar is already what you’d call ‘Third World’…. infrastructure, economy and political landscapes were already messed up to begin with. These are people who are used to being hungry, getting screwed over by the .gov, and generally living like disaster victims. Nonetheless, its a classic example of typical post-disaster situations – food lines, water lines, chaos and disorder.

And this is why, hopefully, we prepare. So that we dont wind up standing in line for hours at a pop to fill buckets from someones garden hose or to clamor for food boxes tossed from the back of deuce-and-halfs.

Food, water, fuel….thats what theyre willing to beat each other for over there. We have the advantage of being able to take precautions against these sorts of things…unfortunately, too many of us dont take those precautions.

As an aside, Im sure the Canadians will send their mighty DART rescue team as soon as..well..you know…they can hitch a ride with someone.

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Oh hell

“As an aside, Im sure the Canadians will send their mighty DART rescue team as soon as..well..you know…they can hitch a ride with someone.
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….That, Mr. Zero, was some kinda funny shit right there.
caused the caffiene-ofactory-ejectus routine, and it hurt.

hey! I get to visit Alberta in a bit; is that anything like your neck of the woods?
Sled238

Re: Oh hell

I give the Canadians a ration of shit because they remind me of the little kid who thinks he’s a tough guy when everyone is actually scared of his big brother.

I’ve met some fine Canadians and Albertans are, in my opinion, the best Canadians. In fact, were we ever to invade Canada (again) I suspect our fifth columnists would all be Albertans.

More fun facts about Canada: The city of Pittsburgh PA has more MRI scanners in their hospitals than there are in the entire country of Canaduh.

Re: Oh hell

reminded me of something I saw in the papers here in Canada awhile back. Going from memory, seems there were a few doctors got together, pooled their money, bought a MRI machine (Ebay?)[LOL] from the US and opened up shop in Canada- “MRI’s while U Wait” or something. People lined up out the door, cash in hand, ’cause the MRI wait was so long people we being scheduled in months and years, and thousands of miles from home.
Well, you can imaging the .gov.ca ain’t gonna have no shit like that going on.
Shut ’em down? Hell, threatened to JAIL ’em.
Part two- and I do NOT know that these were the same guys…but a vet got an MRI machine for Fluffy and any other pet that someone wanted an MRI for.
Soon, there were huge lines of people, with incredibly healthy looking pets, in line to get their Mr. Snookums a scan.
But, of course, what happened when the door was closed was anybodies guess. No telling WHO got into those machines.
I love it when stupid bureaucrats get slickered.
One more fun fact about Canada- I leave in 78 days….
Sled238

If you want to read about how the Canadians really got hosed, research D-Day in WWII, they got sent to the most protected beach and lost a huge amount of good soldiers.

This Myanmar thing might be God’s way of saying there are too many people on the planet. Wait ’til the volcano under Yellowstone goes off, yikes.

Picked up a Romanian AK and 500 rounds yesterday for $275, look out zombies.

looks like

a good way to de-populate a country. let the masses die off while aid is given only to “loyalists”. sounds far fetched, yes, but diffrent people would consider elimination by any means unwanted masses a “good thing to do”.

and some of our own government might want to try that here.

after all, the sudden death of poor, homeless or aged baby boomers means they keep the money not spent on these burdernsome folks. for replacements that is what canadians and mexicans are for.

we are all going into the same future, so beware of the bastards lurking in our paths, or am I crazy? Wildflower 08

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