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SURVIVALISM: Empty Store Shelves As Japanese Hoard. ?You know all that advice you hear about stock?

By Glenn Reynolds

SURVIVALISM: Empty Store Shelves As Japanese Hoard. “You know all that advice you hear about stocking up before a disaster? Events in Japan demonstrate the wisdom of advanced preparation. Even in Tokyo Japanese shoppers are cleaning out grocery stores by buying everything. . . . This is highly advanced, affluent, and civilized Japan. People in Tokyo fear a full reactor meltdown followed by winds blowing radioactivity into the city. They want to have supplies if the stores stop getting deliveries.” Everybody should be prepared to go at least a week or two without having to shop for supplies.

All that Duck And Cover / “shelter in place” stuff may not require a nuclear attack to be relevant. . . .

UPDATE: Hoarding not so bad, according to this report. (Thanks to Steven Den Beste for the tip.)

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 19, 2011 (boomark / email).