"Here's a more interesting question...why would they drop food on Jericho at all? It's a fly over town in the middle of the country - roughly 300 miles from Topeka or Denver. They probably have silos full of grain or corn and they're farm folks so they have plenty of food stored away anyway (who doesn't when the big city is 200 plus miles away)? THEN, there's the question of the population - 5000 folks is a big number for the boonies, so again, given their remote location, they must have some warehouses and Gracie's little store isn't the only place where 5000 people get their groceries. Jericho would qualify for a Supermarket, several fast food and restaurants, and maybe even a WalMart. Unless of course the jerk of a Mayor is land grabbing the numbers as he tries to annex nearby small towns. Whatever, again, if the relief workers have the time and resources to drop several bags of food on the flyover towns, they must be doing wonders in the big cities tha survived - e.g. San Antonio, Austin, Dallas - All over a million - dry up that supply line and you have more to worry about than wether the folks in Jericho have eigh pallets of food. "