Hey. Up here in Massachusetts, it is raining outside, and I am simply terrified.
What if I lose power for a few hours?
The restaurants are all closed...where will I eat?
People don’t get how serious this is.
On a lighter note, I hope I don’t spend the next 6-12 hours bailing out my Father in Law’s basement. Last time there were big rains, the pumps couldn’t keep up and I was up to my knees doing a bucket brigade and pouring them into a shop vac. Ugh. That isn’t life threatening, but it sure is annoying and tedious.
HA! Now that there’s funny, I don’t care who ya are!
Our local Shoprite supermarket is closed today, having announced on Friday a thousand times on the intercom that they would due to concern for the safety of their patrons - all the while stoking up the shoppers to clear the shelves.
And clear the shelves they did.
My wife and I were dumbfounded when we went to the store Friday to pick up a couple of items. The entire potato isle was empty, as was nearly all of the produce (there were beets left, but that was about it). Whole isles of canned foods were empty, as was the bread isle. We were laughing and shaking our heads. What did people think was going to happen? Hurricanes are pretty fast moving - two day events in most cases. People were stocking for an asteroid strike. Plus, it wasn’t exactly still uncertain about the storm. By that time Friday the eyewall had already collapsed, and the whole thing had begun to weaken.
People are feakin’ sheep. God help us if a true catastrophe ever hits. We’ll be a mass of blubbering idiots.