It is a snow storm. We in the Midwest get them all the time, and we don’t go bleating on CNN about how bad it is.
This is a local issue, not a national one. The TPOTUS doesn’t need to be involved, other than it makes golf hard.
I do have one question. In every Midwestern and Western state I have lived in, everyone runs to the store and buys bread and milk before it hits. Doesn’t matter where you came from (a Korean friend of mine did it in college, thinking there was some sort of cultural mandate to do so). Yet most of the time it is not needed. We buy groceries ahead anyway, and a few days stuck at home isn’t a big deal. Does the same thing happen out East?
“...everyone runs to the store and buys bread and milk before it hits...Does the same thing happen out East?”
Yes, absolutely. That is a cute story about your Korean friend, btw.
Today hubby and I went to do our “emergency” shopping, we bought 3 kinds of bread, milk (even though we don’t need it, and a gallon because I guess hubby was in full storm anxiety mode), chips, dip and 2 kinds of cookies!
This happened after the attacks of 9/11/01 too and some were mocked for it. But I had no food and I was tasked with “rescuing” my friend’s elderly mom, as neither daughter could get to her. And I had to go to the weirdo supermarket because the A & P parking lot was filled with people who were blocked from crossing the Bridge between Bayonne, NJ and Staten Island, NY.
It was the only time I was in that store, such a surreal day.
I was going to say I guess it’s just some atavistic scarcity fear, but I read the thing written by the guy over at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, about how he got frozen in for over 3 days in Dallas, and really did have no food. He had to risk his neck to get some, I had no idea an ice storm could hang around that long.
Stay safe!
Pretty much. Carts full of bread, milk, eggs and TP. Sometimes HUGE amounts of one or more of the four.
If you are actually there doing your normal non storm-panic-driven shopping, it's somewhere between amusing and annoying.