Obviously you missed this part of the article, seems she has 100K lbs more ready to ship to her besides what she has in her storage, so she has about a months worth. If she could find a weaver, this could potentially work well...seems BP could open up one of those out of business textile mills and get some weaving done.
"In June, Mrs. Gautier told the hair salons in her network to hang on to their hair for a while. There's at least 100,000 pounds waiting to be shipped, she says."