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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: dynachrome; Not A Snowbird; Tailback

I grew up in Seattle. Non Seattleites do not appreciate that Seattle is built on hills and cold weather is extremely hard to predict here. In the Midwest or Great Lakes, snow means snow. In the Puget Sound, snow means snow or ice and slush on hills and all the right places to make walking or driving risky. When I was a kid we would try to be like mailmen and get to school while our parents would go to work no matter what. Eventually we collectively got tired of fighting the weather and decided it wasn’t worth it.


61 posted on 02/09/2019 1:27:59 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Ann Archy
I remember that from my childhood. If I had children at home, I would do that.

But I'm 75 so Cremora works for me for my coffee.

I usually go to the store every day for exercise. I just buy a couple things at a time. Aldi and Dollar Tree are within a mile of me.....plus 20 other stores. Life is good....but winter s****.

62 posted on 02/09/2019 1:28:28 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It clearly says: “with a charger”. It took a long time. 24v at 3 amps. I could charge the array a lot quicker if I needed to, with multiple and bigger chargers and generators.


63 posted on 02/09/2019 1:28:44 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like Florida 10 hours before a hurricane’s gonna hit...


64 posted on 02/09/2019 1:29:12 PM PST by GOPJ (We renew our resolve America will NEVER be a socialist country. We are born free we will STAY free!)
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To: Ann Archy

powdered


65 posted on 02/09/2019 1:29:23 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: steve86

I saw “with a charger,” but I liked the mental image of you out there shining flashlights on your panels. Kind of like greenies putting windmills on their cars to generate “free” power.

Sound like you are prepared for the power to go out. Are you in Avista territory? We’ve got a house north of Coeur d’Alene and are away now hoping it doesn’t freeze up (no emergency generator).


66 posted on 02/09/2019 1:31:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GOPJ

One year they advised up to keep a bathtub full of water in case the incoming hurricane knocked out power. What I learned from this was that my bathtub drain wouldn’t seal and it all drained out.


67 posted on 02/09/2019 1:31:30 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: dynachrome

[18 bottles of wine

Only stock up on the essentials.]

LOL


68 posted on 02/09/2019 1:32:26 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: Guardian Sebastian
"Here in Missouri we have the French Toast forecast. Milk, eggs and bread. If they add beer it it we know we are in for trouble."

Lived in St Louis exurbia for a half-dozen years. They develop a serious case of stupid when they get an inch or two of snow/ice. The city where we lived didn't even have a snow plow but sent a truck up and down the suburban streets with two dudes in the back pitchin' cinders with shovels. It always melted in a day or two but the drivers were all goofy until it did.

I grew up in the Upper Midwest (WAAYYYY up north) and I remember one week in high school when it got down to -20 to -30F and stayed that way for a week. The power went out for a few days but there was enough water in the pressure tank for drinking/cooking and you went outside to fetch a bucket of snow and ice to melt on the wood stove to flush the toilet. There was plenty of fish and venison in the chest freezer (you only opened it once and be quick about it) to hold us over. Skillet cornbread on the wood stove and green beans and carrots you canned the previous summer.

People are so soft these days.

69 posted on 02/09/2019 1:34:26 PM PST by Sa-teef
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To: dynachrome

Read an old newspaper story about a blizzard where a private pilot air-dropped survival supplies to stranded hunters. No bottled water and energy bars in the 1940s, instead he just dropped the essentials: sandwiches, whiskey, cigarettes, and matches.


70 posted on 02/09/2019 1:35:09 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: All
Slackers. Williston, North Dakota - 2019-02-08, everyone went to work as usual, -43*F, NOT wind chill.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nd/williston/KISN/date/2019-2-8

Take a picture of that web page, once they figure out what it says, they might delete it.

71 posted on 02/09/2019 1:35:10 PM PST by Mr.FixIt (Ethanol: Growing in four months what the U.S.A. burns in one day)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We are in the Tri-Cities, normally milder than CDA and Spokane, not today.

The thought about silly snowflakes not understanding energy production/consumption also occurred to me.

Just as an aside, one time I did measure the full moon putting a tiny bit of energy into the panels. I forget exactly how much power, and certainly nothing useful, but it was there!


72 posted on 02/09/2019 1:39:15 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Catmom

Wait until summer. They’ll have a run on fans at all the stores.


73 posted on 02/09/2019 1:39:27 PM PST by shotgun
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To: Tailback
You know how to spot a tourist in Western Oregon? They have an umbrella

Yep!!!

74 posted on 02/09/2019 1:39:59 PM PST by noexcuses
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To: dynachrome

[ ‘Combat shopping’: Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm ]

Job 38:22-23 King James Version (KJV)

22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?


75 posted on 02/09/2019 1:40:54 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: Catmom

Not only that our hysterical snowflake liberal rag Seattle Times over hyped it and then our own moonbeam gov declares state of emergency over half a foot of snow. Now they’re predicting snowmageddon of three inches Tues/Wed


76 posted on 02/09/2019 1:41:24 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Billthedrill
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.

77 posted on 02/09/2019 1:41:27 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: LouieFisk

It goes more than the stock of fresh milk and eggs. . . we have powdered milk and eggs.

Really, this isn’t Rocket Science. . .


78 posted on 02/09/2019 1:41:34 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Mr.FixIt

Our daughter was in Chicago that day for a training program. They shut the entire city down including all businesses and it was nowhere near 43 below. What a bunch of pansies.


79 posted on 02/09/2019 1:42:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Catmom

I used to live in Seattle. To be fair to the people there, the city’s snow removal plan is “Don’t worry. Tomorrow’s rain will melt it all>”

When it doesn’t, well, their two snow plows and three loads of sand get a bit taxed.


80 posted on 02/09/2019 1:42:59 PM PST by cuban leaf
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