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'Combat shopping': Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm
Seattlepi ^ | 2-8-19 | Daniel DeMay and and Genna Martin

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 ...


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To: Col Frank Slade

I have to get hay and chicken feed!


161 posted on 02/09/2019 4:44:17 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Tailback

When I visited Oregon I noticed you could tell locals from nonlocals by looking at their legs. Oregonians think gaiters are high fashion, nonlocals just haven’t experienced Oregon trench foot.


162 posted on 02/09/2019 4:52:28 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Yep, that’s what it looked like!


163 posted on 02/09/2019 4:53:45 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Back to work for three weeks. BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: 21twelve

I remember that bus! That was the same year it dawned on the city that they shouldn’t run articulated buses in snow.


164 posted on 02/09/2019 4:57:14 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Back to work for three weeks. BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: SaveFerris

We get it canned from one of the prepper food places when we don’t have time to drive over to the Mormon Cannery (it’s a 2 hour drive). . .

Lasts 20 years unopened. We also use it for cooking, so a
#10 can of powdered milk or a #10 can of powdered whole eggs rarely lasts more than a few months until gone. . .


165 posted on 02/09/2019 4:59:36 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: sparklite2

A pack of drain stoppers from Dollar General will fix that tub drain... there’s a big flat on that fits perfectly over the drain grid on tubs.


166 posted on 02/09/2019 5:00:17 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Tailback

14 years in North Bend/Coos Bay......What’s an umbrella??


167 posted on 02/09/2019 5:01:12 PM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: Salgak

Nice. That sounds great.


168 posted on 02/09/2019 5:01:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: piasa

I had a plumber come in a drill the lines out. Works like a champ now.


169 posted on 02/09/2019 5:02:00 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: AFreeBird

[Our roads are already starting to look like a moonscape]

If it was Mars you could look for the flag Neil Armstrong planted!! /Democrat Politician


170 posted on 02/09/2019 5:08:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

SJL. Yeah. Homegirl is a real rocket scientist.


171 posted on 02/09/2019 5:09:36 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

Yep! LOL!


172 posted on 02/09/2019 5:15:40 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Veto!

Tip for you... go to the feed store and get equine pine pellet litter for horse stalls. MUCH cheaper than Feline Pine and it’s the exact same stuff.


173 posted on 02/09/2019 5:19:08 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Jane Long

That’s the sucky thing about hurricanes... the power goes out and everything you stored in the freezer has to be consumed before it all spoils. So... we stock up on charcoal and lighter fluid because all that seafood and venison needs grilling. The hurricane party isn’t frivolous, it is a survival tactic. If you don’t eat it, it will spoil and stink...


174 posted on 02/09/2019 5:24:30 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Yes.

We live in hurricane territory, as well :-)

Have survived SEVERAL!


175 posted on 02/09/2019 5:28:02 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Inspectorette

May you wait forever!


176 posted on 02/09/2019 5:28:40 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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To: Veto!

Good for you!!

Do you have a wood stove? Just curious what your heat source is, for these days of 20º weather, without power.

TIA.


177 posted on 02/09/2019 5:29:50 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Starcitizen

I hate what’s happened to Redmond! All those stupid looking condos/apartments or whatever they are. Everything feels so closed in. Nothing like it was back in the 80s/90s. I grew up in Snoqualmie and used to go to Redmond quite often!


178 posted on 02/09/2019 5:30:56 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: dynachrome

only the essentials: beer and chips.

this report reminds me of what happened before every big snow storm for the 30 years I lived in DC.


179 posted on 02/09/2019 5:34:50 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Jane Long

Electric baseboard heat. I’m on second floor, rarely turn it on. Even on the coldest days, it’s never lower than 55 degrees. People in downstairs apartments have electric bills 2 - 3x higher.


180 posted on 02/09/2019 5:38:25 PM PST by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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