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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That picture reminds me of the Blizzard of 1978 in MA.
There is a funny video on youtube about a guy in a panic getting bread and milk before the snow comes. It must be true that people do that so i think you are right it is not hard to believe.
WEATHER ALERT UPDATE:
Anybody driving on the roads will be getting a $300. fine in NYC
Well, there’s always the sidewalks.
Yum, french toast. My Dad would beg me to make it whenever I visited. Yet he made the best french toast when we were little.
He also claimed that we loved blood pudding (French) as children. We would scream, NO WAY!
What I do remember most about my parents preparing it, was the smell. It was wondrous! I have a keen sense of smell, as my Mother did and one of my daughters has. And I cannot deny that that particular preparation of a meal was wondrous. However, I still deny that I e’tte anything with blood as the main ingredient. Barf!
Seriously though, a man or woman can walk past me with too strong cologne or perfume and I will vomit.
LMAO!
Denver papers are about as liberal a rag as any other. Most decent folks who live out of the city call it a snow storm.
I’m watching cars go by on Riverside Drive.
At sunset, some things were going, but there was still more. The only pistachio nuts left were chili-flavored—ugh.
Here we go with the pizza omelettes and milk sandwiches....
I’m born and raised in Alabama, and still am here.
Just to make it a little clearer. How often do we get snow, especially in South Alabama?
Have you tried driving in it with people who have NEVER driven in it? I have, and it ain’t fun.
Of course they clear out the stores, BUT its for basics. Soup, bread, and bottled water. JUST like we do for Hurricanes.
Alot of people tho, (cause you obviously ain’t still here) have learned their lesson, and keep at least a weeks worth of food on hand...just in case.
Aw c’mon...milk sandwiches are the best!! :-)
chili-flavored pistachio nuts at sunset. Very picturesque.
Where I live in NY, it’s been snowing for about 20 hours now with white out blizzard conditions overnight and into this morning. We have about 18 inches now and it’s supposed to snow like this for the next 6-8 hours. “Like this” = visibility of ~.1 mile with 40+ MPH winds (sideways snow).
I heard NYC and NJ didn’t get hammered (6 ish inches) but we’re sure seeing what they predicted in my neck of the woods.
“Have you tried driving in it with people who have NEVER driven in it?”
Well, yes. As I mentioned before, I grew up in Alabama.
And the very first time I drove in snow I wrecked my car....as I myself was the guy who had never driven in it.
I was just mentioning that cleared shelves aren’t new, and I’ve seen them before...perhaps even a commentary on how its a regular event but only becomes newsworthy if it happens in NYC.
I imagine the same thing happens when hurricanes and other slow motion natural disasters hit.
Dear Billy’s Kid, after I read your response, my husband and I prayed for you at grace last night. I feel for you deeply and hope you and your lab feel safe and warm during this very trying time in your lives. But it is evident you are in good spirits and you are ingenious for setting up a tent to contain your heat. I think your post will remind other women on FR who are alone and have been alone during the cold winter (myself at one time with five little dogs, four in the bed), that God is watching us and will prepare the best way, we just have to keep on living fully and be a blessing to others, as you have been with your positiveness and your ability to improvise.
God Bless you and keep you! Thank-you for being out there and coming forward.
And now you have a story of struggle against wintery blows, in which the children have played a part.
I think that there will be a consequence of the government ordering us off the roads and closing down public transportation at their whim and not because nature has made them inoperable. This nannification will make us less self- directed and more meek. Your husband learned how to drive in bad conditions because he had to; others who were ordered not to, will never gain the skills,and if there is an emergency will not have the practice and could be doomed.
I envy your floor to ceiling TP. My husband found a name for someone like me who has a fear of running out of TP, and will not let me store more than can be fit in the empty portable kennel in the garage.
Happy New Year, JT., looking forward to your stories on FR>
We have a home in Florida on a third floor. Lots of hurricanes to survive. Have a dishwasher, washing machine and dryer up there. I’ve never once used the dishwasher. Who needs one? And, since oil and gas production is the family work, we also live in a 5th wheel on the bald prairie in the Bakken oil basin of northwest ND. The WC is smaller than a tiny coat closet. And my husband and I have three very clean dogs with which we share this space. The wind chill factor was -51 F and yeah, one pup had to go out at 3 am. At those temperatures we lock the doggy door and accompany them. Tough? Get out of the city and come out here, and see where the gas for the generators come from. Even our dogs are tougher than youse guys. /bogus sarc ;-)
I don’t understand a word of your rant to me.
Still, it was a good rant.
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