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."
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...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/shippers-scramble-workarounds-ahead-threatened-us-port-strike-2024-09-25/
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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Well...it happened. It's odd that most people I talked to don't seem to think it'll be that bad.
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Got my 96 rolls of toilet paper yesterday. Ain't doing that again.