🚨🚨PROBLEM🚨🚨 This is the Port of Seattle and the container yard. Note the image. This is the 4th busiest port in the nation. Anyone who has spent time in Seattle can tell you that these docks are always PACKED and the Puget Sound is usually overrun with waiting cargo vessels. There are presently ZERO cargo ships docked or en route. There are ZERO containers in the yard, and there are ZERO trucks to haul cargo. Remember what I told all of you last November about stocking up on stuff and arbitraging it later once the shelves were emptied? Well...we're just about there. Even if this global trade war is ended tomorrow, it will take at least 7-9 months to normalize supply chains and have available product again. And that's if everybody calls it off immediately. 40% of cargo vessels leaving China today (vessels that were already paid to make the journey, whether there is a reason to or not) are traveling completely empty. Shipping container volume is down 80%. The "this is what I voted for" people are about to learn what exactly that is. For you, the Cult of the Cavebaby, all I'll say is this: It wouldn't be the worst idea right now to go through your entire house and identify anything it is you feel you need but don't yet have, anything you have that might be on its last legs and in need of future repair or replacement, or things you feel you won't be able to procure going forward because everything is categorized as "backordered - indefinite". The storm is coming.
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