Grapevine says the interstates will be shut down...probably the weekend or maybe at the end of the weekend. No non-essential commercial transportation and only trips for food or medical reasons will be allowed. Any of you guys get a drift in that direction?
Not to alarm anyone of course...it may be BS...
Remember all those WWII movies where somebody drives up to a Nazi checkpoint and the guard goes "Papier; bitte!" ?
Well...I just printed off my work's traveling papers/credentials.
I am currently employed at a refinery...we make gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, etc. Consequently we are considered essential personnel.
Which is why our HR department emailed us our "get out of jail free" cards. One is a placard which stays on the dash. The other stays in the glovebox. This is in Illinois. Governor J. B. Pritker (aka Jabba the Hut) issued a stay at home order this past Saturday.
Me? Personally?
I hang out in the General Discussion section of AR15 dot com.
There is way more "data" being "transmitted" there and the signal to noise ratio is skewed a bunch. So at times it is difficult to wade or sift through all the other miscellaneous crap and purse swinging.
The latest I read was Spain is using an ice skating rink to store bodies in.
:-(
It has the potential to be really, really BAD!
And my kinda default position is to refer people to the movie The Trigger Effect:
On my own personal, anecdotal level, I went to the St. Louis Cabela's on Friday and Saturday. I ended up chit chatting with the same clerk both days.
Her first comment on Friday that got my attention with me was she said....supposedly...that one of their gun counter clerks asked a hoodrat "Why don't you use your money to buy extra food and toilet paper.?" Supposedly, the hoodrat replied "If I have a gun, I don't need to buy those other things."
Then on Saturday when I was talking with that same clerk again, she said...her exact words were "I have seen more blacks here in the past 3 days than I have seen in the past 3 years."
The store was practically cleared out of the ammo.
And lots of hoodrats were eyeballing magazines and holsters.
I also made a trip to my local gun store on Saturday mornimg. It was packed with a line almost out the door. And a lot of the customers were buying ammo, but didn't know the difference between hollow points and FMJ's.
If things do get froggy, there are a bunch of amateurs out there.