Posted on 02/09/2019 12:44:15 PM PST by dynachrome
"Who has the key to the liquor cabinet? I've got 25 people lined up over there!" yelled one worker at the store.
Shoppers were lined up down every aisle waiting to check out.
At Costco stores around the area, people stocked up in bulk, apparently specifically on liquor.
"Hat tip to the lady in front of me at Costco. 18 bottles of wine, 2 cases of Fremont IPA, & cherry tomatoes. Godspeed, ma'am," wrote MS Kalara on Twitter.
At Fred Meyer, shoppers described a "war zone" of "combat shopping."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
[If you are not already a prepper in some sense of the word, stories like this one should motivate you to become one.]
Yep. You can bet the rest of the world will clear out the grocery shelves in no time.
Just before a snowstorm a few days ago I was in the local WM and a local grocery store. There were a LOT of people stocking up - for an expected 3 days.
I can’t believe how many people are not prepared for ====> 3 days.
They weren’t buy a few things like I was. Shopping carts FULL of stuff.
“22 year old truck. Started good in the recent bit of chill we had here.”
In Dec. we had to replace the battery (#3) in my wife’s 15 year old Lexus. We had some cold weather in California, down to low 20’s at night.
I keep those small portable jump start batteries in our vehicles. After the 3rd time I dropped my wife off to grocery start and bought a new battery. It works fine now.
My Ridgeline needed a couple of jump starts in Dec.. The AAA guy said that it was the cold weather and not starting it for a couple of weeks. It is doing fine now. One of my wife’s nephew is a car genius. He told me to start it once a day and to have the portable battery jump start well charged and nearby.
His parents have two Ridgelines and they live in the Polar Vortex area. He told them to take the portable jump starters from the trucks to inside their home for the night and during working hours and to recharge them.
That worked.
He is wondering how many electric run vehicles couldn’t start in the areas hit by the Polar Vortex.
Great idea. I liked the idea of combat shopping in Seattle.
As long as the squirrels and turkeys don’t have the ammo, you’ll be fine.
The other thing that helps is I have a Wolverine oil pan heater pad.
Measure the spot you are going to stick it a little more carefully than I did.
No joke. Northern Utah is typically fairly mild. Usually by February it’s warming up and raining. Temps are approx. 10 F and we’ve got a foot of snow on the ground. We’re all good, nobody is dying. Washington is full of creampuffs.
The other thing that helps is I have a Wolverine oil pan heater pad.
Measure the spot you are going to stick it a little more carefully than I did.
Speaking of measuring the spot!
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3726641/posts
I’m surprised that thread is still up!
I’ve done a few jobs in the tri-cities with snow and wind. And also when it was 112 degrees.
Speaking of solar - I did one job where they were installing a fairly large solar array panel (at Battelle) in order to charge up a new fleet of electric vehicles.
I have a picture of the 150’ x 150’ area of the solar panels. In the background is the nuclear plant!
I suppose as a backup the solar panels can at least keep some cars going in a big emergency. But it seemed like a huge waste of money and resources with that reactor just down the way.
I’m guessing the reactor puts as much watts out in a minute as the solar arrays would all day??
I figure combat shopping will happen if the EBT cards stop working.
Guess the mods figured that we needed a break from the news about liberalism and bad weather on a Saturday.
I had a nurse tell me this story: it was an ob/gyn office. The pregnant women would have the ultrasound probe up her hooha. But they always covered it with a condom. The the mom would be given chocolate to get the baby to move around. Late one afternoon they still had several appointments but they had run out of condoms and chocolate. So the nurse ran to the local pharmacy, filled up the cart with boxes of condoms and chocolate. The guy at the check out told her it must be some crazy party.
Grocery stores have about one day of supply on hand (think about it - what was the last time you did NOT see a semi backed up to the store unloading?
Gas Stations have ~ 3 DoS.
We live at 9300 feet in Colorado and are appropriately “insured” against supply chain disruptions. Its cheap if you do a little at a time and don’t get fancy. Lotsa people live on beans and rice. ~$1 pound if you look a little.
I'm not a prepper either. I just have the normal amount of food in my refrigerator and cupboards. The vast majority of the storms, the roads are plowed the next day and I'm able to get to the supermarket if I need to.
Only one storm kept me snowbound for several days and that was the Blizzard of 1978. Our side street did not get plowed for nearly a week. But nobody starved. Nobody ran out of food.
Also, it is actually possible to live without milk and bread for a few days. I know the supermarket mobs find that hard to believe.
AOC would pick the bug with the guitar.
And expect the ant to feed her.
Let me add my 2 cents.
I am now a Seattlite.
But I come from the Midwest.
When I lived in Indiana, I couldn't care less if it snowed.
I had my trusty brush/scraper combo.
I'd go to work for 12 hours, come out and there'd be 8 inches of snow on my car.
Brush it off while waiting for the car to warm up and drive home in 10 minutes.
You can do that when the ground is flat as a pancake, and people are used to snow.
However, Seattle is very hilly in several places, and people just don't KNOW what to do.
I've found myself enraged when people are trying to go anywhere in their little 2 wheel drive sedans when they don't *have* to.
They block traffic and spin out because they don't know about "stopping distance".
One of the worst examples was where some cretin stopped in the middle of the road to chain up his Prius.
Blocked roughly a mile of traffic.
He COULD have pulled into a parking lot to do that, but NOOOO.
He couldn't even figure out out how to apply the chains.
I have to say: GRRRRR!
They must take the Donner story very seriously!
People that haven’t been just don’t appreciate how hilly it is and how rare significant snow is in the lowlands. When it does snow, it can dump a foot the density of wet cement in a short period of time which will either melt or refreeze into solid ice. The other issue is that the event that everyone is talking about is the 2nd major snowfall this week, and two more events (one larger than any so far) are forecast for later in the week.
+1
Once I saw the place I had my doubts, but figured I had nothing better to do. So there I was with my box of 24-eggs amidst the throng of over-filled carts. I was in a line of about 50 people.
Probably 3 white people, the rest were a 50/50 mix of Indians (eastern) and Chinese.
I was behind a young Indian guy and he said how crazy it was - he was recently from Madison, Wisconsin. He said how this is what India looks like all the time - anywhere - just masses of people.
“Yeah - in more ways than one it looks like India.”
He laughed.
That is one of the things that I don't like - the density of people. Redmond has in their building development plan clear adherence to the U.N.’s Agenda 21 for making central dense housing districts while keeping “open space” (or banning suburbs).
And with the Indians and Chinese, they think they are living great when they can have a 1,500 sq-foot condo in a new high-rise smack in the middle of what used to be the small downtown of Redmond. Oh - and the 7-story, 100(?) unit buildings aren't required to have parking for every unit.
No worries - mass transit will take care of the 10,000 new people moving in.
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