[Billthedrill]

"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.

I hope that's enough beer. This thing could last for several days.

Talking to a Seattle friend last night whose wife works at Fred Meyer. She came home shell-shocked. "This is why we have a full freezer and a generator, dear," I could hear him telling her in the background.

My SHTF buddies are laughing, but it's no joke - what happens in a real emergency?

[shelterguy]

I have tons of squirrels and turkeys in the backyard and plenty of ammo. I’ll be fine

[steve86]

I already need to dig out in front of the shed doors to get one of the generators out, in case things go dark later. Also have the solar battery array fully charged (1200+ amp hours), and that was done “artificially” — with a charger — as there hasn’t been significant sunshine all winter!

[unixfox]

My SHTF buddies are laughing, but it's no joke - what happens in a real emergency?

In a REAL emergency food and gas would be hard to get. A few days of bad weather and no electricity would wipe out grocery stores. These people don't know what a real emergency is. Yet.

[Mercat]

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.

[dfwgator]

I hope that's enough beer.

I thought heroin was the elixir of choice in Seattle.