2021 shortages

[jsharmon7]

Stores are still stocked up around me, but Panda Express was out of my three favorite entrees due to supply issues.

 

[bwframe]

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Cameramonkey]

I need new boots. Danner has none in my size+style. (almost all sizes in my style actually) I suspect my new boots are somewhere off the CA coast right now. (VN made)

 

[Cameramonkey]

I need new boots. Danner has none in my size+style. (almost all sizes in my style actually) I suspect my new boots are somewhere off the CA coast right now. (VN made)

Just heard back from Danner.

"Thank you for reaching out. The Kinetic 8" is expecting to come back into stock 02/13/2022, but is still subject to change. We're experiencing unexpected delays in our supply chain.

We're so sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you,

We appreciate your patience thus far."

Wow. Just wow. Far worse than I imagined.

(Lets Go Brandon!)

 

[ancjr]

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.

news.yahoo.com

o/~ Mister, we could use a man like Grover Cleveland again o/~

 

[bwframe]

o/~ Mister, we could use a man like Grover Cleveland again o/~

...or maybe DJT.

 

[rooster]

I need new boots. Danner has none in my size+style. (almost all sizes in my style actually) I suspect my new boots are somewhere off the CA coast right now. (VN made)

I wear American made thorogood or Carolinas. Similar price to comparable imported boots,130-240 ish.

 

[Ziggidy]

Like many here have stated, there are many factors going on. I think it’s a “perfect storm” of bad events that’s causing where we are today, and I expect 2022 to be far worse.

The rolling blackouts in China are messing up their production in major ways. Like it or not our economy depends a lot on what they can produce. I don't think this mess is a Chineese power play, I think they're just as screwed up as we and are trying to make the best of it. The ships not getting through the ports has been a nightmare. I heard where when a ship is late it takes at least a year for all the ripple effects to work themselves out. I don't see it getting any better in what's left of this year.

Personally, we’ve had a refrigerator at the house that’s barely worked for a couple of months now. When it first broke, we looked for a replacement. At the time the options we could get our hands on started at $1,500. I just wanted something simple, a box that stays cold, but many now are getting so wrapped up in tv screens and other tech crap that eventually breaks that the prices just keep creeping up through the ceiling. I doubt the $1,500 refrigerators are even still around and I'll be looking at $2k or more when it finally become time.

Several people I know including myself have refinanced homes are significantly lower interest rates. Right now if you’re paying over 3% you’re burning your own money. That can’t go on for forever, and now is a great time to lock in fixed rate loans.

The Covid restrictions are a bubble that needs to pop. It’s not even the people being fired for refusing to get the shot, it’s the ripple effects if people being tired of the delays, restrictions and other silly games we’re all being forced to play to accommodate snowflakes. People have had it. In the last month and a half I've been to Anchorage, Palmer, Wasilla, Sedona, Flagstaff, and Phoenix. In all that traveling there was one store (REI) that required masks and one restaurant that asked us to wear a mask before we were seated and we could take them off. Other that those two places and the airports obviously everyone else just has a sign on the door for compliance but otherwise is going about life as normal B.C. (before covid).

My primary concerns that drove me to prepping years ago have been and still are financial collapse. I think we’re getting closer to that and I don’t see a way out of this mess where we’re still using the same US Dollar that we are currently using today. There’s going to be a need for stable currency and when the value of everything resets I believe that silver will have an incredible amount of purchasing power in whatever the new currency we end up with.

Once/if we get through this I think people are going to shift their focus from cheap goods that are easily replaced (like my old fridge) if they break to quality goods that they can count on. I also think more entrepreneurs are going to see opportunities that are missing from our local economies supply chain and start to fill in the cracks of our nations weak points.

In the mean time, we’ve been making some serious changes to how we do things at our house and after all the years I’ve been doing this my spouse has woken up to see it and is fully on board. Our focus is going to be to shift to additional canned foods and silver as we can afford.

This bubble we're in is different than others in the past where I've never seen or heard of being we are so internationally entwined with other nations. Hard times have just begun and it won't be fixed at the ballot box next Nov. One side has already shown they can make an election turn out the way they'd like. Buckle up everyone, we're in for a wile ride ahead.

All government induced. And instead of working on solutions, they work on means to make it worse.

I the thread "What had biden done right?"; well, he has followed his orders to the max.

Soros must be smiling real big.....

 

[Route 45]

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.

news.yahoo.com

Hope they put back some of that $250k for a rainy day.

 

[Ingomike]

I am sorely lacking on history, as we had the winningest football coach in the history of mankind ( or some s**t like that) as a history teacher and I never developed an appreciation til later in life.

Mr, Wright. LOL

 

[Ingomike]

Why has the price of boneless skinless chicken breast meat stayed under $2 a pound, and remained in good supply, yet chicken wings have gone from $1.29 to almost $4.00 a pound in the last 12-16 months, and many stores never seem to have them in stock.

Generally when this happens it because of the changes in commoditization and foreign purchasing. I suspect the chicken is no longer the commodity, the commodities are breasts, thighs, wings, legs. Someone is buying wings driving the price up...

 

[Ingomike]

Glad we had a stick burner installed when we had the house redone a little while back. Location of it is far from the best, but better than nothing. Wouldn't mind seeing about installing an outdoor wood fired boiler though.

The same people that are banning lawn mowers and chainsaws will be coming for your wood burner soon...

 

[Drewski]

Ordered a dining room set at Value City months ago - long enough ago that I don't even remember when - and even then, the scheduled arrival date for our order was Nov. 30. I just checked their website and now it's saying April 20.

Spent some time with friends in and around Chicago, and the scheduled maintenance included with our '21 Palisade coincided with our time there, so I went to a dealer in the burbs. Three dealers on that street, including the one I visited, had almost no new cars. The Tesla dealer literally had an empty lot (although that's probably not too unusual) and one car in the showroom. The Hyundai dealer only had used cars and one new car in the showroom, and the Toyota dealer only had 4Runners and used cars. I didn't check out the other dealers too closely but they all seemed unnervingly low on inventory.

 

[Magyars]

Thanks resident biden

 

[Leadeye]

Looks like the fedgov is admitting that heating cost are out of control.
Lets go Brandon!

Thanks to Biden's policies, prepare for a cold, expensive winter

One of the wonders of the modern age is that fossil fuel allows us to avoid freezing in the winter and overheating in the summer. Climate change fanatics, however, who ignore that the Earth's climate has cycled endlessly between hot an...

www.americanthinker.com

Was splitting wood today that I cut yesterday.

 

[Cameramonkey]

To hedge my bets, I took a little insurance out and ordered a second set of the waterproof hiking boots I wear as an alternative to my Danners when I dont need a shiny, polished boot.

I dont want to get farther on down the road and not be able to get those either.

 

[Leadeye]

To hedge my bets, I took a little insurance out and ordered a second set of the waterproof hiking boots I wear as an alternative to my Danners when I dont need a shiny, polished boot.

I dont want to get farther on down the road and not be able to get those either.

Considering how many shoes come from china, having extras sounds like a good idea.

 

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[PistolBob]

Let's Go Brandon!!

 

[teddy12b]

Let's Go Brandon!!

I bought the t shirt.