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Blizzard 2015 photos: NYC grocery stores cleaned out as Northeast prepares for snow storm
Syracuse.com ^ | January 26, 201 | Ben Axelson

Posted on 01/26/2015 11:27:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg

Grocery stores in New York City and around the Northeast are being overrun and cleaned out as customers brace for a "potentially historic" snow storm set to bury the region.

Shoppers tweeted photos from checkout lines at stores throughout the Northeast using the hashtags #blizzardof2015 and #Snowmageddon2015:

..and here's proof! @WholeFoods more like wholezoo. #blizzardof2015 pic.twitter.com/XoixguYZrv — Teresa Priolo (@Fox5Teresa) January 25, 2015


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: noblizzardjustsnow; nycblizzard
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To: Mad Dawgg

Everything (pretty much) has been shut down in Red Hampshire tomorrow. Utility companies are informing everyone that if you lose power, it could be a while; as they will NOT send up buckets if winds are exceeding 35 mph. Great.


101 posted on 01/26/2015 12:34:10 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I don’t understand these sheep. How is it that someone can’t survive a couple of days with what they have on hand? I just don’t get scenes like this....


102 posted on 01/26/2015 12:34:25 PM PST by CSM
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Call and raise you, one tear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1899
My Father was Born in NW Alabama June 24, 1899.
Note Temps for Florida and Georgia.


103 posted on 01/26/2015 12:34:30 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Leftist women are such a damned embarrassment...)
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To: Maceman
The famous Blizzard of '78, which I well remember as the largest snowstorm in my lifetime, was 27.1"

The think about the '78 blizzard was 2 weeks before there was 24 inches dumped with little thaw.

104 posted on 01/26/2015 12:35:50 PM PST by AU72
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To: 21twelve

Sere post 65 this thread for the answer. ;-)


105 posted on 01/26/2015 12:35:54 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: who knows what evil?

Saturday was quiet here on the west side of Nashua because it snowed 3”. Everyone was out here yesterday. Lowes & Home Depot packed. I pulled into a Market Basket on Amherst Street in Nashua and could not find a parking space. I left.

The only issue I had from the storm was the ability to find gasoline that first morning. I had to drive into Manchester because all the Milford, Amherst, Bedford stations did not have power to run their pumps. Also, I only have 8 gallons of fuel storage containers. With the ethanol, I do not like to ever store more than I can use in a couple weeks. So, everyday I was going to the gas station with my three cans.
Fortunately, my Honda generator does pretty good on fuel.


106 posted on 01/26/2015 12:36:25 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I dunno why people insist on buying bread and milk before a major weather event.

Got a nice stash of Larabars...praying that the power doesn't go.

107 posted on 01/26/2015 12:38:37 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: fatnotlazy

“Toilet paper is the item I don’t get.”

I’m guessing space in the city dwellings is an issue - or is it more of a mind-set? In those photos I am amazed at how little most people are buying. I know some people that live in Seattle. Some eat all of their dinners at restaurants every night. Others pick up what they need for the home-cooked meal on the way back from work every day.

So perhaps that mindset even enters in when preparing for a big storm?

I couldn’t stand going to the store every day.

I have relatives that live on a ranch. He goes into town once a year for taxes. The wife goes in once a month or so - but trying to get it to once every three months. Funny thing was - it was only a 45 minute drive into town!


108 posted on 01/26/2015 12:39:25 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Obama will just sign an EO forbidding it to snow more than 6 inches.”

I have been told that there is a city law in Salt Lake City that limits how much the GSL can rise.


109 posted on 01/26/2015 12:40:48 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Personal Responsibility

People out here tend to underestimate the resilience, foresight and weather/survival wisdom and experience of the average northeasterner.

Looking at how they vote you can see why

We were stuck with no power in freezing temps for two weeks on LI in one storm

We are burning furniture at the end

The dogs were shivering


110 posted on 01/26/2015 12:42:13 PM PST by stanne
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To: who knows what evil?

I was referring to the storm last Thanksgiving. We lost power at my house for three days.


111 posted on 01/26/2015 12:42:34 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Sacajaweau

Thank you


112 posted on 01/26/2015 12:44:36 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Perhaps he thinks he’s King Arthur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePj0c-BNR8U

Regards,


113 posted on 01/26/2015 12:44:51 PM PST by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: 21twelve

One of the prepper conversations that I often have is with those that don’t think they are preppers. To which I ask them why don’t they go out and eat for every meal - they usually tell me it is to expensive. My response is ... So you “prep” by buying groceries that you store in your house that you will need during the next week.

About 10% get the idea and you can see the idea dawn on them. The rest are clueless.


114 posted on 01/26/2015 12:45:00 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: woodbutcher1963
I was referring to the storm last Thanksgiving. We lost power at my house for three days.

In New Orleans the media reported that they were having to resort to cannibalism by the third day, I hope it wasn't as bad at your house.

115 posted on 01/26/2015 12:45:09 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I’m going to sit here in the toasty South (redstate) in front of my TV and watch the people who put Obama in power deal with the blizzard! I’m sure the few conservatives left up there are man enough to deal a few challenges.


116 posted on 01/26/2015 12:45:23 PM PST by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: taxcontrol

That is very smart, I will adopt that.


117 posted on 01/26/2015 12:46:18 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

After hearing stories from neighbors (and yours); my wife is glad she didn’t procrastinate until Sunday...the little snow that fell Saturday didn’t bother her at all.


118 posted on 01/26/2015 12:46:52 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Maceman
The famous Blizzard of '78, which I well remember as the largest snowstorm in my lifetime, was 27.1" in accumulation, according to the chart of Boston's biggest snow storms.

That's what I recall. I don't think they count the fact that a storm of a foot or more occurred within a day or two of the 27" storm.

Nothing comes close in my memory. When I opened the garage door, the snow had drifted to 3/4 of the way to the ceiling. I just stood there with my shovel wondering where to shovel the snow.

When I finished shoveling, we could walk from the snowbank onto the roof.

119 posted on 01/26/2015 12:48:43 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: stanne

I buy groceries by the pickup truck load and only go to town about every 3 weeks. We live prepared for most things around here.


120 posted on 01/26/2015 12:48:54 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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