All of that is a problem, but there is one more which makes those look minor.
How do the people involved keep this a secret.

Today I saw a story with a throwaway line to the effect the US is now a Surveillance State which would be the envy of George Orwell. The individuals organizing this storage system would likely have drawn the attention of the Authorities because of the things they’d already said and the items they’d already purchased. Buying all that food would surely draw more attention. Government infiltration, drunken blabbing, and bitter divorces would be among the many possible ‘leak’ points.

Defense would be a challenging issue, especially in view of how militarized the police forces have become. Lots of local units now have their very own armored vehicles.

To summarize, the practical details would be formidable.

I’m more in agreement with the last part of this than the first. Our imperial overlords are very sensitive to anything which might cost them any money in terms of increased taxes, so in that regard I’d say they’d happily let those of us in the 99.9% starve to death. I’d add that an alternate explanation is that they’re too arrogant/stupid to worry their heads about the matter in the first place.

But in the first part you seem to have an unspoken assumption that the police, National Guard, or regular Military are faceless Imperial Stormtroopers without any wives, kids, parents, or siblings. If some big food warehouse is going to be guarded by these armed and organized outfits, they’re not exactly going to settle for useless legal tender in return for their services. For most every armed guard, there will be an extra drain from the food reserves for them and their kinfolk. And the police/military who didn’t get invited to participate, they’re going to be an extreme threat with their own arms and organizational abilities.

It takes quite a while for a human to starve to death, and that’s a whole lot of time they constitute a real problem for those who are trying to keep it all for themselves.

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The attack would be on the nation as a whole, and that’s at the level where the planning and other preparations would have to made. Highways would (IMO) have to be written off with abandoned cars and wrecks and all. There is still a rail network in the US though, and I believe that’s the way interior cities would have to get their supplies. Some or all locomotives would have to either be “hardened”, or be fitted with replacement parts which got fried. Coastal cities would of course be open to ships.

At any rate, there are lots of other grains besides wheat. People can eat corn, oats, rice, etc.

Assuming we can somehow get food stocks into the cities, they still need water. More preparations would have to be made at all points in the supply chain to be ready to repair or replace all the critical electrical units in the water supply systems. The water might be limited to 1/2 hour every day.

There would need to be planning for stockpiles of vitamins, medicines, and lord knows what else. National planning, and with enough money to make it worthwhile.

Coastal Event Memories, by A.G. Kimbrough, is a near term Science Fiction Novella. It tells the stories of a group of survivors that live through a species ending series of global catastrophes. They are clustered around the shores of a great Inland Sea above what used to be called the San Joaquin Valley in California. This Novella started developing in my head this July. I had planned to next complete another long delayed book, but this one, prompted by current events, would not let go. Finally, I gave up and started writing. I hope it is only fiction…

Regards,

A.G. Kimbrough