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 ...
Cotton, Minnesota, north of Duluth, had a -56 reading last week.
[ 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. ]
That’s correct. The mockers who don’t believe in survival food would change their tune quite quickly. It’s hard to store up a lot of drink. I have a small amount of both.
I just can’t believe the number of people who aren’t constantly prepared for 3 days.
Everyone should have 1-6 months prep, IMHO. If possible.
“People are burning first drafts of their novels for warmth”
“It’s like Mad Max but with Amazon Prime vans”
“I’ve lived through winters in three states and people in western Washington are the biggest babies by far.”
I’m guessing you have never lived anywhere that the snow impact to the roads and transportation is as bad at western Washington.
There is no flat ground, only a few plows and the wet snow quickly gets crushed down to a sheet of ice.
Ping lol
and the frac crews, drillers, etc. are still at work, God bless them!
Portland stores stripped of kale
Oh gosh, that’s a brilliant diary of doom!
“Night has fallen, and the roads are blocked by an inch of snow.”
I haven’t looked too closely at powdered milk. It seems most I see (at WM for example) has about a six-month shelf life.
Which is not bad. Maybe there’s better options.
I know there’s longer storage versions. I’ve tried some of it. I don’t get too excited about “best buy” dates.
My canned pasta (Chef Boyardee used to be 68 cents at WM - now about 98 cents) was almost a year past. It was just fine when I finally ate it. Multiple cans of it.
Yeah, the cheap stuff is fine for me.
“’Combat shopping’: Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm”
Charlotte, NC is famous for that ... because, you know, there are always “shortages” before snow “storms” (anything more than 1/4”)
I can get tofu on the black market. (Is that ray-ciss?)
I haven't heard such desperate times since the siege of Stalingrad.
I’m stuck working a grocery store (QFC) here in Redmond Washington. Store shelves cleared of dairy, vegatables, meat and bakery. Busy as hell with the rudest, foulest customers being Indian families stealing jobs from true-blue Americans as myself. They truly look down on Americans. Only jobs Americans can get in Redmond are low-paid service jobs while Indians dominate the IT and other sectors here. 25 years of experience in IT and programmkng and I’m stocking shelves.
Fort Leonard Wood is deep in the Missouri Ozarks. I have a hard time believing that an inch or to of snow would have that effect. An inch or two of ice is a much different story.
OMG. That Twitter feed is a riot. Thanks for posting.
“Gluten-free breadlines.”
I go for the canned meat. Got a great Sterno stove just in case we lose power.
we keep a bit of powdered milk in a jar in the deep freeze because of its short shelf life. otoh, we keep several cases of evaporated and sweetened condensed milk in rotation. Longer shelf life, multiple uses and a source of water.
[Only jobs Americans can get in Redmond are low-paid service jobs while Indians dominate the IT and other sectors here. 25 years of experience in IT and programmkng and I’m stocking shelves.]
That H1B sure hurt a lot of Americans.
If you are not already a prepper in some sense of the word, stories like this one should motivate you to become one.
JoMa
[ we keep a bit of powdered milk in a jar in the deep freeze ]
That’s good idea.
I’ve got evaporated milk. About 5 cans left.
The only can of condensed milk I have is waiting for it’s turn in an upcoming Butterfinger Cake. :)
(usually gets Butterfingers and/or something else like Reese’s, Snicker’s, etc.)
I made another poor man’s banana cream (lol) pie - that’s still sitting in the fridge intact. I had some left over pudding (made a bit too much - too much milk and had to add another box of pudding).
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