Get ready Amurrkah, fun times ahead!

[lars]

Major U.S. ports on the East Coast and Gulf are very likely to strike on Oct 1st. Here will be the result:

"The ports that could close in a strike handle more than 68% of all containerized exports in the U.S. and roughly 56% of containerized imports, according to industry data. So even a short strike would cause significant disruptions in regional trade flows. One analysis estimated that could cost the U.S. economy as much $5 billion a day."

Who will pick up the $5 billion a day tab? YOU WILL
This will make COVID look like a cakewalk. At least during COVID essential products still moved around on a limited basis. This strike will bring everything to a complete halt. Zero. Nothing. It won't be, "oh, we've run out of some things." It's going to be, "we have nothing."

[gordo]

It gets harder to get out of bed every day.  And just when you thought half the country being blown away, flooded, or burned to the ground wasn't enough...

[jessenator]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/shippers-scramble-workarounds-ahead-threatened-us-port-strike-2024-09-25/

[jimilee]

Seems like this happened one year right around Christmas. I was working retail then, that was not fun for a guy in commission.

Edit: yep 2002.


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[lars]

Well...it happened. It's odd that most people I talked to don't seem to think it'll be that bad.
 

[jwin615]

Got my 96 rolls of toilet paper yesterday. Ain't doing that again.