Shot Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I’ll assume flooding has choked supply lines. I needed a few items today: Pancake mix, cherry tomatoes, milk, and butter. I had to visit 5 shops to complete the list. Milk was the tough one. First 7-11 looked like something out of a post apocalypse movie, but found some at they second 7-11, and it was their last carton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax2 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Everything is available you just have to shop around, Same as a few years back when the floods in Bangkok caused a supply shortage Tesco, big c and Makro all had stocks of items like milk with a short shelf life yesterday The sky is not falling in, not yet anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) The other day Supercheap had virtually no vegetables for sale, but they were available just down the road in Makro Edited January 13, 2017 by Old Croc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 While I had heard the term, I didn't really know what "Red Ball Express" was. Thanks Shot for filling in the gap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 In world war 2, it was the allies supply line, mostly trucks that drove night and day from the coast of France inland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 On 1/12/2017 at 8:29 PM, Old Croc said: While I had heard the term, I didn't really know what "Red Ball Express" was. Thanks Shot for filling in the gap. In world war 2, it was the allies supply line, mostly trucks that drove night and day from the coast of France inland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beechbum Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 On 1/13/2017 at 11:29 AM, Old Croc said: While I had heard the term, I didn't really know what "Red Ball Express" was. Thanks Shot for filling in the gap. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shot Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 There is a decent movie (1952) about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045072/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 And as a side note, many Black Americans were assigned to the duty since the army was less than integrated but the leaders were OK with using the manpower for labor tasks, or driving tasks that more or less kept the blacks separate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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