Re: From coastal debate: the natural disaster and food comparison.

From: The Ancient One (onlytheone_at_thetopknows.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:12:15 -0500

"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@2socketdot.no5net> wrote in message
news:10ur3hnknveqrd0@corp.supernews.com...
> ishky@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>
>> If your residence were destroyed by a natural disaster typical to your
>> location what would you do?
>
> Depends on the disaster. I'm out of the flood plain but in a valley,
> house sits right on bedrock so much so we're in a lower-damage zone re
> earthquakes according to both the state geological survey and my
> insurance guy. Even so, we've got the hot water heater strapped down,
> cabinet latches, and other earthquake structural modifications. We've
> survived 9 inches of rain in 24 hours with nary a drop of water in the
> basement, and the house (we weren't here then) survived 24 inches of
> snow in two days in January, 1982. We've got a lightning arrestor on the
> house, and a grounded outside TV antenna taller than the house. We
> unplug TVs, computers and phones during an electrical thunderstorm.
>
> That leaves only tornadoes. And there's really no point in trying to
> move away from a tornado after one strikes, since their paths are both
> narrow, and yet unpredictable, it's not like the folks who rebuild year
> after year on the bank of a river, or the edge of a cliff. But I don't
> know what we'd do if everything we had was levelled and ruined.
>
> I'm not too worried about nature, because I know we're better able to
> deal with it than at least 90-95% of our neighbors.
>
>> Jo Schaper wrote:
>>
>>>I am currently researching comparable food prices at the grocery
>>
>> store. I know someone who lives 'near the beach' and I'm now curious what
>>
>> the price differential is.
>
>
> Well, I got my answers: I chose items randomly which I buy on a regular
> basis, and asked my friend to send me prices from her grocery. Both of
> us have similar lifestyles, went to high school together in the Midwest,
> and are buying food for families on a budget.
>
> From a working class neighborhood in California:
> A gallon of Milk $3.75
> A loaf of wheat bread $2.89 - $3.19
> A pound of carrots $2/bag
> A round steak (per pound) $5/lb.
> A pound of apples $1.99 lb.
> An 8 oz package of mild cheddar cheese $2.58 store brand
> A one pound bag of egg noodles. .99 +
>
> Bill = $19.35 (price ranges averaged to one figure)
>
> From a working class neighborhood in Missouri:
>
> A gallon of Milk $3.60
> A sandwich loaf of wheat bread $2.19
> A pound of carrots $.99 raw/$1.99 peeled
> A round steak (per pound) $3.99/lb.
> A pound of apples $1.00-$1.50/lb. (varieties)
> An 8 oz package of mild cheddar cheese $ 2.50 national brand
> A one pound bag of egg noodles. $.89 store brand
>
> Bill = $15.91
>
> Neither of us pays sales tax on food. Ok, I know this is a sample size
> of two, but some data is better than speculation.
>
> According to the AAA site, today gasoline is going for an average of $1.77
> here and $1.93 (both for regular) in the nearest listed metro area to
> where my friend lives.
> Still sounds cheaper to me.
>
> Jo

Can't tell you what most of that is here without a trip to town, but I can
tell you milk is $2.88 a gallon and Wonder white andwhich bread is $2.00 a
loaf. Last tank of gas I bought was $1.68 a gallon for regular, and I'm in
Central Indiana.

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