Alaska (The State) Purchases, Stores, Inventories "SHTF FOOD" for Alaskans.

[Sourdough]

What does your state do, as far as SHTF food...???

 

[Cabin Fever]

What does your state do, as far as SHTF food...???

The problem is you need to have a way to get to it. A storehouse of food 30 miles away isn't much use to the average person if there is no available gasoline or a sleigh of reindeer.

 

[Dave V]

Alaska Aims to Store Emergency Food Supply for 40,000 People
Alaska population 733,406 in 2023, so what happens to the other 693,406 people?
https://www.govtech.com/health/alaska-aims-to-store-emergency-food-supply-for-40000-people.html

P.S. I think we just have a lot of hurricane preparedness stuff like:
https://www.natca.org/2020/09/08/natcas-disaster-response-committee-there-when-you-need-them/

 

[Mountain trapper]

I guess my state expects people that want to store food to store food on their own. They wouldn't use tax payers money to buy and store food. I don't think the tax payers would allow the state to spend our money that way.

 

[Sourdough]

I think their planning is for communities devastated by Earthquake type events.

 

[Caribou]

I remember Alaska buying emergency food supplies by the container full. That happened one year and I’ve not heard of it since.

 

[Supervisor42]

Y'all shoulda been around in Alabama during the cold-war years!
Every fallout shelter was stocked with enough food for over a hundred people to consume over a month!
And they were everywhere!!!
Yes, the state did that, with help from the fed.

 

[Amish Heart]

I tried looking it up, but couldn't find anything for Kansas.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Y'all shoulda been around in Alabama during the cold-war years!
Every fallout shelter was stocked with enough food for over a hundred people to consume over a month!
And they were everywhere!!!
Yes, the state did that, with help from the fed.

We ate a lot of that CD food when in Scouts (1960s). I remember a sawdust texture bar that was sweet, a Tootsie roll type of stick, and a Tang-like beverage.

 

[Steve_In_29]

Y'all shoulda been around in Alabama during the cold-war years!
Every fallout shelter was stocked with enough food for over a hundred people to consume over a month!
And they were everywhere!!!
Yes, the state did that, with help from the fed.

ALL states did that back then.

 

[Steve_In_29]

I think most states have a certain amount of shtf supplies stockpiled to respond to those scenarios likely to be encountered. But none are laying in supplies to cover every eventuality nor to supply their entire populations.

 

[Steve_In_29]

We ate a lot of that CD food when in Scouts (1960s). I remember a sawdust texture bar that was sweet, a Tootsie roll type of stick, and a Tang-like beverage.

I wonder if that was similar to the bar I ate in the arctic rations I was issued as a Marine in Norway. AFAIK it was made by compressing a large amount of Frosted Flakes (or something similar) into a solid mass. It came in a spam type can with two other bars that seemed to be made from Corn Flakes. I think we were supposed to reconstitute them into a gruel type dish but we just ate them as they were. Which was a bit hard on the teeth.

Later there was a similar (though not as hard) compressed rectangular bar provided in MREs that was made from oatmeal. Lovingly referred to as an "oatmeal butt bar"

 

[OldSchool]

I think most states have a certain amount of shtf supplies stockpiled to respond to those scenarios likely to be encountered. But none are laying in supplies to cover every eventuality nor to supply their entire populations.

Food supplies could be found at fenced-in 'camp' locations.

 

[montanabill]

Here in montana we have yellowstone and the missile fields so the state makes some noise and passes resolutions but......

According to the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, there is a designated fund called the Public Health Emergency Fund that can be used for responding to public health emergencies. "However, it is not specifically allocated solely for this purpose and may also be used for other public health initiatives".

 

[Morgan101]

Whatever any government has stored will be woefully inadequate compared to what is truly needed.

 

[Steve_In_29]

Whatever any government has stored will be woefully inadequate compared to what is truly needed.

And doled out in an unfair manner.

Though it's not the .gov's fault on the inadequacy. Taxpayers wouldn't put up with the cost to REALLY prep and that it would have to be restocked on a regular basis at added expense.