I'd rethink that if I were you... before you put any money on it. The MidWest is a quite a large area compared to SF, and a lot of those folks are still rural types... their pantries ARE disaster supplies. Many of them don't have the luxury of a 7-11 two blocks down the street, and stock their shelves appropriately. Quite a bit of the MidWest is still subject to the whims of Mother Nature on a regular basis, so they have back-up heat and warm clothes on hand as a matter of course... not even thinking of it as "disaster supplies". Remember, it's hard to beat a farmer when it comes to being able to handle anything you throw at him... while I'm considered a "townie", I'm surrounded by a sea of farm boys, and in a pinch, I'd rather have a handful of them at my back than all the desk jockeys in Chicago.

Troy