CHAT So you wake up on Dec 9th, and the railroad strike has occurred -- what are the first things you will do?

tnphil

tnphil

Don't screw with an engineer
If a strike happens, I'll go get plenty of bags of coffee.

I'll visit liquor store to get barter items. I'll stick to that story. :lkick:
I'll fill all vehicles and gas cans.
That's it. We have enough ammo and storage food for a small country.
 
P

Profit of Doom

Dismember
cousin vinny said:
Something to consider:
UPS PLACES many trailers on the rail system each day. If the railroad puts up a picked line the UPS drivers should honor that line. You are really talking trouble now!
Let us pray that doesn’t happen.
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If RR strikes, UPS will not be put trailers on the train. They will probably stop several days before the strike, like perishables will.
 
Kathy in WV

Kathy in WV

Down on the Farm...
My days of big shopping runs are pretty over. These days I have to keep an eye on the money, obviously not buying what it once did. I'm like the turtle chugging along now. Slow n steady. I'd like to be more ahead on cat/dog food and chicken feed. I'd butcher these heavy chickens and get straight game hens. They raise some smart chicks and forage so well.
 
helen

helen

Panic Sex Lady
By law they have to clear the tracks of chemicals and other specific loads 96 hours ahead of time. Google the list and get what you need before they announce the strike. Even if they are ordered back to work, they will have already produced a major slowdown in production of all kinds of things. You don't have ten days. You have two days.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Yep. buy another bag of cat food and more litter. I've been buying a little each paycheck.

I think I'm OK with the other stuff.

I'm so thankful that I know how to sew! I can repair clothing and make new pieces (simple ones!) so I'm not that worried about a shipping problem. I've got fabric on hand.
 
helen

helen

Panic Sex Lady
This time the news media says Congress will deal with it. But why?


President Reagan yesterday signed an order blocking a nationwide rail strike that had been planned for Sunday night by the union representing 35,000 locomotive engineers and firemen.

The executive order forestalls a strike for a 60-day "cooling-off period" and establishes an emergency board to investigate the dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and most of the nation's major rail lines.

Influenced by the potential impact on shipment of winter wheat, national defense materiel and coal as well as unemployment and intercity passenger travel, Reagan acted within hours of receiving word from a labor mediation board that the situation was "extremely critical," deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said in Santa Barbara, Calif.


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mechanic 217

mechanic 217

I was told there would be cookies!
Walrus said:
Along with the Pri-D. IIRC, Pri-D doesn't include biocide. But I use it (and Pri-G) exclusively to maintain the "freshness".

ETA: Scroll down to post #7 on this survivalistboard forum for a more detailed discussion; Pri-D has a fungicide but not a biocide in it. The fungicide definitely helps.

PRI-D (diesel) shelf life?
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I have had great success using Power Service Diesel Additive, this is in the northeast.
 
W

Walrus

Veteran Member
helen said:
This time the news media says Congress will deal with it. But why?


President Reagan yesterday signed an order blocking a nationwide rail strike that had been planned for Sunday night by the union representing 35,000 locomotive engineers and firemen.

The executive order forestalls a strike for a 60-day "cooling-off period" and establishes an emergency board to investigate the dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and most of the nation's major rail lines.

Influenced by the potential impact on shipment of winter wheat, national defense materiel and coal as well as unemployment and intercity passenger travel, Reagan acted within hours of receiving word from a labor mediation board that the situation was "extremely critical," deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said in Santa Barbara, Calif.


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The difference is Reagan vs. the union tool Bai-Den. Big cojones vs. shriveled peanuts.
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
bracketquant said:
Walk to the bathroom and pee.
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Walrus said:
Have a cup of coffee.
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db cooper said:
What would we do if an RR strike happens? Nothing, nothing out of the ordinary. Simply macht nichts.
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Deena in GA said:
Whether it happens or not, we should have taken care of everything long before Dec 9.
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EXACTLY.

Doesn't matter what the :hof:dujour is... we should have a plan, and be working our plan. Fortunately most good plans have a lot of things in common, so no matter if it's Aliens on the front lawn, or Zombified brain-eatin walkin' dead at the back door, or something in between, a well conceived, often tested and fine tuned, consistently practiced plan is gonna take care of it, leaving you the ability to act instead of react... and free to go about our days like we always do, taking care of the clients, homes, businesses, families, livestock, or whatever it is we do.
 
N

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
helen said:
This time the news media says Congress will deal with it. But why?


President Reagan yesterday signed an order blocking a nationwide rail strike that had been planned for Sunday night by the union representing 35,000 locomotive engineers and firemen.

The executive order forestalls a strike for a 60-day "cooling-off period" and establishes an emergency board to investigate the dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and most of the nation's major rail lines.

Influenced by the potential impact on shipment of winter wheat, national defense materiel and coal as well as unemployment and intercity passenger travel, Reagan acted within hours of receiving word from a labor mediation board that the situation was "extremely critical," deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said in Santa Barbara, Calif.


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Helen, we ate up that 60 day cooling off period 3+ months ago......
 
Sammy55

Sammy55

Veteran Member
I try to keep supplies topped off regularly. But, like a bunch of others here, I'm planning a shopping run on the 1st to pick up more dog food and cat litter (do we love our furkids or what??). I'll pick up a few other items as the spirit moves, fill up with gas and fill the cans, pull our any extra money from the bank account, and then sit back to watch the fireworks. We don't have anything really super important coming up this month, other than Christmas with family, of course. So we are planning to hunker down and enjoy winter and Christmas, and then spend time catching up and finishing projects.

I know that the RR strike could mean trouble and hard times, but I'm not going to worry about it. I have given it all to God, and He'll let happen what He wants to happen. "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches over me." Just have to have faith, do what God says to do, and put your worries in God's hands.
 
Y

Yogizorch

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I'd get up and take my pills and have some coffee while getting ready for the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
 
Doc1

Doc1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Probably go back to sleep. The freezers are filled to bursting, there's lots of extra dog and cat food, lots of people food stored and lots of gas and diesel.

Needless to say, I threw away all of the guns and ammo, but other than that we're set.

Best
Doc
 
TammyinWI

TammyinWI

Talk is cheap
Matt said:
They shut down the economy in 20/21... here in NM only 75 people could be in a super WAL-MART, you had to wait in line in foul weather to buy groceries.... you have to be suffering from some serious Stockholm syndrome to think they are scared to plunge the knife in deep!

If they are looking to break people's spirit... Christmas is a great time for a good hard beating... after all, most people proved beyond doubt they have no fight in them!
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It was almost two decades ago that I learned that the Waltons are globalists. They have enough wealth and provisions stashed away for their Club of Elites to last probably twenty lifetimes.
 
TammyinWI

TammyinWI

Talk is cheap
Matt said:
They shut down the economy in 20/21... here in NM only 75 people could be in a super WAL-MART, you had to wait in line in foul weather to buy groceries.... you have to be suffering from some serious Stockholm syndrome to think they are scared to plunge the knife in deep!

If they are looking to break people's spirit... Christmas is a great time for a good hard beating... after all, most people proved beyond doubt they have no fight in them!
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Replying again to your post. This is SO true. This deserves the post of the day trophy...spot on...sigh. Today it looks like:
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ShadowMan

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
Buick Electra said:
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Buick Electra.....you're a lady after my own heart!! :chg: ‘Slange’

As for the question in the OP. We're already stocked up and ready. Been following this potential event for a while. Made a Costco run last week to top off a few bulk items. So coffee in the morning and perhaps a Drambuie during the evening news. We've got a side of beef and a side of pork in the freezers......might need to pick up a case or two of wine. Just in case this lasts longer than a few days or weeks.

I just don't see the Federales allowing this to go on for any length of time. Not at 2 billion dollar$ a day!!!!

However....BIDET is a total idiot and moron so there's no tell what that dumbarse or his cronies are going to do.
 
To-late

To-late

Membership Revoked
I’ll just heat some water to make my morning green tea.
there isnt anything I can do about the strike.
And everything is already full and topped off.
so I’ll just sit on the front porch, and watch the world go by.
So if there is a strike. Truckers will be working I bet.
 
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bracketquant

Veteran Member
night driver said:
The warnings and announcements will be VERY public, and the hyperventilating and gnashing of teeth will be UNMISTAKABLE even if you DON'T have TeeVee OR Radio.
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I have no radio or TV, so I'll assume It will be announced on this forum. If an above post says that unions must give 9 days notice, does that mean if there is to be a strike, the notice will be about November 30th/December 1st? Such word of a union notice would have me topping off preps then, not on December 9th.
 
N

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
helen said:
No EO was used.
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No EO was needed since the base laws have changed to the point that all the Admenstruation has to do NOW is form a task force, have them do a recommended settlement contract and the 60 days is around that document. There are times built in for voting etc. No EO needed anymore.

HONESTLY, I SUSPECT that Biden's admenstruation string dance pullers actually WANT the collapse to happen. While Joe tries to say he handled the issue as it crashes down around his non-function ears and brain.
 
Uhhmmm...

Uhhmmm...

Veteran Member
So once again the nation and its economy is facing the risk of a massive freight railroad strike, this one as soon as Dec. 9. But about the only thing you don’t need to worry about it is whether it will affect your holiday shopping plans. (It won’t.)

A prolonged rail strike could create all types of shortages, from gasoline to food to automobiles, and cause a spike in the prices of all types of consumer goods. It can screw up the commutes of tens of thousands of workers who take the train to work, slow the delivery of parts and force factories to shut down. But one area that most likely won’t see immediate or severe disruptions will be Christmas.

“The stuff that needs to move for the holidays has already moved by rail,” said Balaji Guntur, vice president in global consultancy Kearney’s transportation practice and a logistics veteran. The goods that retailers are counting on for the holidays are already in stores or nearby warehouses...

A strike would “would utterly upend the supply chain,” Dodge said, adding that concern among retail CEOs is “high” because of the increasing risk of a national rail strike. About 30% of the nation’s freight, when measured by weight and distance traveled, moves by rail, and there just isn’t enough capacity on trucks or other modes to move those goods if the railroads grind to a halt...

Gasoline

Refineries get most of their crude oil via pipelines and ship most of the products they produce, such as gas, diesel and jet fuel, via pipelines. Still, railroad tank cars are a key part of that process.

Just about all ethanol that goes into gasoline moves by rail; gasoline wouldn’t be compliant with some environmental regulations without it. But even if those regulations could be waived, the cost of a gallon of gas without ethanol would jump by about 16 cents due to the loss of tax breaks, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for OPIS....

(E)ach day about 300,000 barrels (of oil) move by rail, a volume that would supply about two mid-size refineries, according to data from the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, the refineries’ trade group. Numerous chemicals used in the refining process also are transported via rail, as do some lower-grade products and waste materials.

“If rail cars aren’t coming in regularly to pick up facility products, including the sulfur that refiners remove from crude oil, production will have to curtail,” the refineries’ trade group said earlier this fall.

Food

Food prices might not be as negatively affected by an early December strike date,as they would have been in September amid the fall harvest. But grain and other food products still need to move by rail...

“Any additional disruption of rail service would immediately impact the nation’s food and agriculture and broader supply chains,” said Mike Seyfert, CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association. “The risk in both domestic and international markets is real...”

Cars

About 75% of completed cars built in US factories or imported here move by rail. So do many of the parts used to build vehicles, moving between suppliers and car assembly plants, and production will quickly halt if those rail links are severed. It would take time to make up for lost output, creating upward pressure on car prices.

Manufacturing

Most factories aim to have parts and raw materials delivered right before they’re used in assembly lines — a process known as “just-in-time” delivery. Many factories depend on rail to receive those parts and supplies and then ship out them out for delivery...

A lengthy rail strike could result in temporary plant closures, which is what happened across the global auto industry in recent years due to the shortage of parts and computer chips.

Commuting

Only the nation’s freight rail lines face a pending strike, but commuters would likely be affected, too. Many commuter trains travel on tracks maintained and operated by the freight railroads and passenger railroads expect they’ll have to shut down their operations once the freight strike starts...
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Gee, that is pretty much everything... except Christmas!
 
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