Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea.
It is still parking interns inside legislative offices from Sacramento to Albany, and the men who run it still get their pictures taken with Democrats who sit on committees that are supposed to be watching Beijing.