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As far as buying/renting stuff, I live in an apartment and my apartment even closed their gym and offices because of the virus. For food shortages, there's def
by ryanmercer 7y ago
As far as buying/renting stuff, I live in an apartment and my apartment even closed their gym and offices because of the virus.
For food shortages, there's definitely food issues here. Here are some pictures of the shelves Friday night https://imgur.com/gallery/gczEiFt https://imgur.com/gallery/gczEiFt, I've been going 1-2x a day since and it's just worse each time I go. Groceries all have restricted hours now too. Opening around 6-8am and closing at 10-11:30pm where some were previously 24/7.
Monday on the way to work at 7am (+/- 10 minutes) I drove by 4 stores and all of the parking lots were packed already. Monday evening I stood in line at the grocery for 25 minutes at self checkout to buy a hand basket of stuff with every single staffed register open (which I have NEVER seen).
I have a few months worth of basic staples that I could live on but it's getting hard just to replace what I'm eating daily due to people panic-buying. I can't find potatoes (my daily lunch), I can't find oats (my daily breakfast), there are usually a dozen bunches of bananas or less each time I go to the store and I only buy 2 to leave some for others and I eat them for breakfast and an evening snack, frozen kale (breakfast) has been sold out since Saturday (I bought the last package, a package lasts me 2 days) and even during normal times fresh kale is frequently out of stock, I usually have beans and corn for dinner while beans are in short supply, rice is in very short supply, bread basically doesn't exist, flour basically doesn't exist, toilet paper has been sold out since Friday, all from people panic buying.
9 more cases were confirmed in Indiana today taking us to 39 which I've already heard had people flocking to groceries so I'm not even going to bother stopping tonight.
If people would just calm down the food situation would go away.
>Consider delaying the wedding,
Unfortunately this isn't an option. We can't live together unmarried due to our religious beliefs and we picked our current date because her teaching yer ends the week leading up to it. We're still working on getting everything we need for our temple sealing (if it is even still open by then, it is for now basically only for weddings) so at best we could only try moving it up once we have the necessary paperwork signed and then it would be get married and she'd have to get in the car and head right back to Missouri. We can't push it back (much) because she'd either have to stay in Missouri until a teaching year starts here (if she finds a job now that schools are shut down) or we'd have to find her temporary housing and hemorrhage money on 2 places.
- gus_massa 7y agoCan you put a running mill inside your apartment? (I'm not a gym fan, so I don't understand if it is useful to get enough physicals activity.) It is impossible to be sure, but I expect than two month of food is more than enough. In the long term, I expect problems with food than need a lot of handwork, like strawberries or raisins, but corn is very automated and it will be fine. (I like corn, I hope you like it too.) (Obviously you can't eat only corn every day.) From Wikipedia: > Indiana is the fifth largest corn-producing state in the U.S., with over a billion bushels harvested in 2013. I live in Argentina, so we are somewhat used to natural and artificial catastrophes every ten years. For example, a few tears ago the food producers refuse to send food to the city due to the high taxes. To avoid the empty spaces, the supermarkets filled the void with toilette paper packages. I could have bought a hundred of toilette paper packages those days. I work in the university, so I understand the problems to change the job at a random time. Good luck with the wedding. Remember to post some photos here!
- ryanmercer 7y ago>Good luck with the wedding Thank you! I think we should be fine as long as the government office is open next month when we go to get our license.