Originally Posted by Boggie Dog

For arguments sake I'll agree that all states had what they believed to be adequate emergency supplies on hand expecting resupply through federal emergency stocks. Isn't there an upper limit even for federal government supplies? I don't know the planning metrics but would think stockpile levels were planned around regional emergencies and not a country wide emergency. I could be very wrong but let us hope going forward the planners will take this event as a starting point and build future stockpiles around a similar or repeat event.