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Ignore what everyone else here has said, the answer is a resounding yes.What they’re missing is that you don’t need that much non-perishable food to survive. Here’s the plan:Check the inventory sheets in the back, that way you know what you have.Find the coldest, most isolated freezer section (they should have thermometers) and turn it into your storehouse, put all the perishable food in there with Ice, and insulate the doors.Find a way to preserve perishable food that doesn’t fit in the storehouse. i.e. making jerky, jams, etc.Build a water recycling system. This is crucial.Pull up all the flowers in the garden center, and plant food crops.Eat all the perishable food first, once you eat all the fresh food, use the rotten remainder for fertilizer.Congratulations! You’ve just created a self contained Wal*Mart settlement capable of running sustainably for well over 50 years!

Before you set afoot on US soil, remember not to carry fruits, vegetables, plants, soil, with you. You may carry packed Indian spices but do not carry rice;Not everyone keeps greeting every random person on the street (something which I had thought, was the case). But if eyes of strangers’ meet, its customary to smile or say “how you doing” or just nod with a smile and pass;Its in their nature to start any conversation with, “how are you doing?” They wont wait for an answer and actually they dont expect an answer to come from you. But my father had once taught me, when I was a kid that if someone was interested to know about my well being, I should reciprocate in the same fashion. So everytime I was asked how I was, I always asked the same in return but never got an answer back, save once or twice. I didnt mind though but I ensured I did my part as my dad had taught me;Remember a very important thing. You shall be representing your country. You shall be representing India. So whatever you say or do shall be extrapolated to the whole nation. So be in the best of your nature and behaviour. Any wrong doing or saying would go a long way in spoiling the image of our great nation;This is for others who are above the legal age to drive. If you are travelling to US for an long term (even for say 3 yrs), while still in India, log on to the website of the DMV (RTO in India) of your would-be state and read the procedure to obtain a driving licence. Go a step further and download the driving manual and read it before you reach US. So once you are there, you can straight away take the online test of traffic rules and save on time. Even if you know driving, its better to take a few classes before you take the driving test;While driving or even while leading a daily life in US, an important factor needs to be kept in mind. “To yield”. Be it a train boarding or a bus boarding or entering a restaurant or allowing pedestrians to pass, you need to allow others to pass before you. If, however, the other person insists you go ahead first (despite your yielding first), its fine to go ahead. Most importantly, after you have been given an yield remember to thank the other person. While driving, this is done by a wave of your hand;Continuing with yielding, if you are driving at night and want to yield to another person, what do you do? You use the high beam flash. Yes!! While in India its used to signal, “me first”, there its used to signal “you first”. So if someone flashed at you, it means he is asking you to go ahead. So dont speed up to beat the other guy, just pass and thank him by a wave of you hand. Also, honking is a no-no. People honk there at times and its purpose is to alert you not to egg you to move;While calling out of US the dialling procedure is 011 followed by the country code and the number. Eg: 011–91–33-LANDLINE;Leaving tips for any service is customary, not compulsory. At restaurants, leaving a 15–20% tip is fine;The reviewing system in the US is very robust. You can find a review for anything on websites like tripadvisor, Yelp. Before you plan a holiday or book a hotel room or rent an apartment or buy any appliance, try looking up the reviews. It would help you a lot. As payback, do reviewing of your experiences as well so that others can benefit;If you are having a Dollar income, do not convert your expenses into Rupees and gape at the price difference. As a percentage of income, prices in the US are much less compared to those in India.Like any western society, the American system runs on TRUST. They trust everyone and they will trust you as well. So its the responsibility of everyone living there to honour that trust. Let me exemplify. In multiplexes, which are usually not that crowded and have free seating, you need to show your ticket once and enter the screen premises. No one checks which ticket you hold and which movie you watch. Actually, if someone wants to mess with the system, they can watch n-number of movies with just a single ticket, which they dont do. A friend was once narrating an experience when someone known to him, had movie-hopped with one single ticket. While such perpetrators can have a good laugh at the end of the ploy, they do not realise that at the same time they bring immense shame to themselves and to the country they belong to. I had corrected my friend that moment and made my point clear. So bottomline, return the trust with greater goodness.Shall add other notes if they strike me later.Edit # 1While on an escalator, if you want to stand at your step, stand on the right side, leaving the left flank available for people who want to walk or run the stretch;While at a coffee shop (eg Starbucks) or at a Quick Service Restaurant (eg Dunkin) where you want to buy coffee, if the barista asks you if you want cream in your drink, he intends to know if you would want milk in the drink;After serving you the coffee if the barista says your bill is two-sixty-nine-dollars. Dont panic. He would mean $2.69 (2 dollars and 69 cents). $269 would be Two Hundred and Sixty Nine Dollars;In case you fall sick after having the coffee, you can sue the outlet for serving you a bad drink for a million dollars maybe. Chill. Just kidding. If you need medicines head to medical stores like CVS and Rite-Aid. Other than these twins, all american grocery stores like Giant, Safeway, Harris Teeter, have a medicine dispensing section and also a few aisle for OTC drugs;“To-go” in US is what “parcel” is to India. Also, if at a restaurant you want your unused food to be packed to-go, dont be surprised if your server comes and hands over the to-go boxes to you. In several restaurants you would need to do the packing yourself. Its hygienic plus you are sure that you are packing whatever you had left;Edit # 2Inside an elevator (lift), if any of the floor numbers in the panel, has a star mark by its side, it conveys that the floor is at the lobby level;US addresses are mapped pretty well in google maps. Hence, if you hail a Uber, you neednt call the driver and give him directions. He would arrive at your doorstep unaided;Every apartment (i am not sure of garden apartments) has a service elevator and a service door at the backside of the building. For moving heavy stuff the service elevator is used and the handlers on their own get the truck and move the goods from the back gate. Its very standardised, seamless and hasslefree.Edit # 3While making payment by card after your purchase at any store, the card reader would ask you if you want a cashback and the amount of the cashback. Now, here cashback stands for a withdrawal and not a rebate. So if you have done a $5 shopping and opted for a $20 cash back, your card would be charged $25 and you would get $20 back, in cash. Btw, the USD is also known as "greenback".Edit # 4While dining out in a group, if the bill needs to be split equally between the diners, just drop all your cards together. The waiter would split the bill and charge the cards equally.In a restaurant, especially in a non-Indian restaurant, if you want water to drink, remember to mention "water at room temperature", else you would get chilled water with ice cubes, even if its winter. No worries if you forget though. They'll change it for you with a smiling face.Buffalo wings are not made of Buffalo meat. Those are chicken wings. The dish was first prepared in the city of Buffalo in New York State, hence the name. Similarly, "Boar's Head" is a brand name.Edit # 5Dont touch/cuddle babies (for showing love/affection) of people you arent known to. Showing unsolicited affection isnt quite appreciated. Also its unhygienic. You may be unaware of the germs you may carry with you which you run the risk of transferring to the infant.Pets are like babies to Americans. Same principle, as above, goes with pets.If you are driving on the interstate or for that matter in a 35 mph region, going 10 mph above the limit is still fine. But if you are in a residential area with a speed limit of 15/25 mph, try maintaining that speed or max 2–3 mphs above the range.We have the habit of hiding our sneeze with our palm. Well dont do that if you are in public, for the simple reason that you never know with who all you can shake yor hand or which handrail you are going to grab. Actually, whereever you are its always better to sneeze into your folded elbow.Edit # 6People are raised to treat everyone with the same respect. I have seen people tipping street performers & then shaking hands with them. Thats why I say, in the US, a senator and a janitor, both get the same respect.Edit # 7Feel like grabbing a beer? You can head to the local supermarket and search for the aisle for alchohol. Supermarkets stock beer, wine and champagne. But ensure you are having an ID card on yourself, which you would need to show the billing clerk to prove that you are above the legal age to drink. Doesn’t matter if you have grey hair or a salt & pepper stubble to speak your age out, you still need to show them a govt. issued ID card like DL, passport or identity card, else they wont be able to complete the sale.Ok, so you’ve got your beer home but realise you dont have a bottle opener. Never mind, caps of beer bottles in US can be opened with your bare hands. Just grab them with your thumb and index finger and give an anti-clock (counter-clock) twist and the cap would come out. You dont need a bottle opener. Don’t try the wine bottles. You would need a cockscrew.This may be common knowledge but still let me mention. Dates in US are in mm/dd/yyyy format. Well you may know it but not all Americans do. I was once at a DMV for my DL test and the guy behind the counter was about to issue me a DL expiring beyond the my visa period. I pointed out his mistake only to be told in return, “why do you guys write it differently”. I replied mentally, “you are welcome”.

You want an engineer’s opinion on “The Wall”? Okay then.1 - the environmental study will take 3 to 5 years to complete, but only if the project is divided into manageable chunks of 1/2 mile to 2 miles in length. That give us about 1,000 different design sections. And if you think that this phase can be skipped, the lawsuits over that decision will take 10 to 20 years to resolve and the court would probably order the environmental study done anyway.2 - once you have the environmental clearance, the actual design can begin. Don’t think you need to design something as basic as a wall? The first step is to perform soils testing to see what kind of foundation is needed; skip that and your wall has a good chance of falling down or falling over. While, technically, you could probably design a 1/2 mile section of wall in 3 or 4 working days, you also need to account for the approval process and review times. Chances are that the design stage will take a minimum of 18 months.3 - acquiring the land/ right-of-way will take from 4 to 6 months, *provided* that the landowner is willing and you don't have to go to court. That gives you time to get an estimate, get the estimate reviewed and approved, contact the land-owner, make the offer, accept a counter-offer (if they make one) and get the documents signed and sealed. If the land-owner does NOT want to sell, expect a protracted court fight of 3 to 7 years (longer if the land-owner has lots of money). If you can't get the land, go back to step 1 and start over.4 - add on another 4 to 6 months to advertise for bids, accept the bids, make certain that the bidding contractor has done all the proper paperwork and insurance (and isn’t just going to run off with the first payment or produce shoddy work) and generally get the project out the door.5 - building the stupid thing probably takes the least amount of time, but you will still need to allot 2 months for the contractor to mobilize and order the raw materials, plus another 2 to 6 months for construction.Now multiply that by 1,000 different sections of wall.As a civil engineer for the State of Pennsylvania, I oversaw the design of about 100 bridges, so I'm fairly familiar with the system. Oh, and of those 100 bridge projects, exactly *1* of them came in on time. As a general rule, something will go wrong in the design process; if we knew what it was in advance we would budget time for it, but there is no way of knowing in advance what it will be. So this is actually what I would call an *optimistic* appraisal of the possible time-line and I would bet it takes at least twice as long as I have suggested.Hope this helps.Edit: Many folks are commenting on remote sections of the wall that do not have the infrastructure needed to get supplies and equipment to the construction site. You are correct, I did not address that in this answer.Building the roads to get to the remote portions of “The Wall” would require a series of entirely separate projects to build those roads, which would need to go through the 5 steps above. That means each new access road would need an environmental clearance, design, right-of-way/ land acquisition, and so on.But one additional step would also be needed before the road could be built - utility coordination. It is probable that where the access road tied into an existing roadway, there would be utilities that needed to be moved. If utilities needed to be brought to the construction site that would also require coordination with the various utility companies. (It is possible that the contractor could bring their own generators, truck in water and truck-out waste on a daily basis, though.)Working with the utility companies would add another 6 months to 2 years to the project, depending on how many utilities were affected and whether or not electricity, water and sewer were extended to the actual building site.As for housing workers, I imagine that most contractors would rent camping trailers or mobile homes to house the workers on-site in remote areas. Because most contactors already bring in a mobile home (or two, or more) to the site to use as a construction office, I don’t see that this would be a problem - unless the government builds 100 sections of wall simultaneously, in which case the trailers might be in short supply, resulting in higher costs.Edit, the Second: fixed the typo in step 4.Edit, the Third: (2/76/2019) A lot of comments suggest that the President can waive these standards, or that they won’t apply for this reason or that, or that “eminent domain” somehow speeds thing along. The answer is No.No, the President can’t waive the requirements for an environmental document. This document is required by law, and those laws were written and approved by Congress and signed by previous Presidents. If the government won’t follow its own laws, why should anyone else? Declaring a national emergency doesn’t change those laws, nor does anything else.No, eminent domain doesn’t speed up the process of acquiring the land. Eminent domain allows the government to take land FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. The land-owner can dispute the value the government places on the land taken; they can dispute the amount of land being taken; they can dispute the need for their land to be taken to build the project; they can dispute the need for the project (either in its entirety or just that section); or they can demand mitigation measure be taken. Depending on their claim, the Court might stop just that section from advancing or it might stop the entire program from advancing. And, in some cases, the Court will order the government to pay the land-owners costs for the suit. I accounted for the requirements of eminent domain in Stage 3, above.But thanks for the comments anyway.Edit, the Fourth: About Eminent Domain: the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that the goverment must give just compensation for anything taken by the government. So, no, Eminent Domain does not mean that the government can take the land for “free”, or can take the land by putting some money into a bank account while the land-owner and the government haggle over the value. That would compromise the land-owner’s right to sue to stop the project or to sue to force the government to build somewhere else.