CHAPTER 6 - FOOD SOURCES
Because food and water are the bare necessities required to sustain life, any disaster will affect food supplies and sources whether temporarily or long-term.
The focus of this book is emergency food supplies, but in addition, weather crises can also carry the problems and/or needs of evacuations, communication/technology disruptions, Martial Law, self-protection, electricity interruption, and toxic exposure as well – all of which can affect local food supplies negatively as well.
While we tend to think that the disaster affects only its immediate vicinity, in fact, some disasters have a ripple effect that can impact the food supplies across the country for days, weeks, months, or even years depending on what kind of crisis and where.