Where I live, there are 4 trains stuck on one set of tracks. 1 has been there since the beginning of COVID, and it looks like they would normally hold cattle. Somebody online said it had something to do with FEMA. Within the last 3-4 months, 3 other trains have stopped on the tracks, and they are fully loaded with containers. They haven’t moved, and obviously haven’t been unloaded. With all the “shortages” going on, it just seems like they’re stalling these trains to make shortages even worse artificially. Just my thought.
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Well, for one, the lumber mess is fake. There were shots of totally fully packed lumber storage areas all over. Yesterday, my guy went to buy a very few long boards to make me a set of seven steps. He could not find anything suitable at Home Depot OR Lowes. Nuthin'. No good lumber at all. This is not like we don't have any trees left. It is all fake. I told him, wait until Trump gets back in and there will be PLENTY of lumber for a good price. We're now waiting.
Friend contracted to build a home and has been waiting 2 months for the concrete guys who say they can not get. In part because a couple of concrete factories (of components?) have burned down. My friend preordered the materials to build the home as he had a heads up about shortages from the lumber store. Said he got trusses ordered just in time as there are no more metal parts available for them. Also know that appliances are a year out on many brands shipped internationally as a friend works at Lowell's. He ordered a stairway some weeks back and received a shipping notice that it was shipped (inside the US) and thought it should have been delivered a couple weeks ago, still out. Also a relative in real-estate had a contractor order a tub required for a sale and was led to believe it would be here over a month ago. Still out...
Just drove by the mill that supplies Home Depot. It is full of lumber ready to go. I have never seen so much. And FYI, Home Depot is tripling the price that the mill is selling it to them for.