Posted on 01/26/2015 11:27:10 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
Grocery stores in New York City and around the Northeast are being overrun and cleaned out as customers brace for a "potentially historic" snow storm set to bury the region.
Shoppers tweeted photos from checkout lines at stores throughout the Northeast using the hashtags #blizzardof2015 and #Snowmageddon2015:
..and here's proof! @WholeFoods more like wholezoo. #blizzardof2015 pic.twitter.com/XoixguYZrv — Teresa Priolo (@Fox5Teresa) January 25, 2015
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Everything (pretty much) has been shut down in Red Hampshire tomorrow. Utility companies are informing everyone that if you lose power, it could be a while; as they will NOT send up buckets if winds are exceeding 35 mph. Great.
I don’t understand these sheep. How is it that someone can’t survive a couple of days with what they have on hand? I just don’t get scenes like this....
Call and raise you, one tear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1899
My Father was Born in NW Alabama June 24, 1899.
Note Temps for Florida and Georgia.
The think about the '78 blizzard was 2 weeks before there was 24 inches dumped with little thaw.
Sere post 65 this thread for the answer. ;-)
Saturday was quiet here on the west side of Nashua because it snowed 3”. Everyone was out here yesterday. Lowes & Home Depot packed. I pulled into a Market Basket on Amherst Street in Nashua and could not find a parking space. I left.
The only issue I had from the storm was the ability to find gasoline that first morning. I had to drive into Manchester because all the Milford, Amherst, Bedford stations did not have power to run their pumps. Also, I only have 8 gallons of fuel storage containers. With the ethanol, I do not like to ever store more than I can use in a couple weeks. So, everyday I was going to the gas station with my three cans.
Fortunately, my Honda generator does pretty good on fuel.
Got a nice stash of Larabars...praying that the power doesn't go.
“Toilet paper is the item I don’t get.”
I’m guessing space in the city dwellings is an issue - or is it more of a mind-set? In those photos I am amazed at how little most people are buying. I know some people that live in Seattle. Some eat all of their dinners at restaurants every night. Others pick up what they need for the home-cooked meal on the way back from work every day.
So perhaps that mindset even enters in when preparing for a big storm?
I couldn’t stand going to the store every day.
I have relatives that live on a ranch. He goes into town once a year for taxes. The wife goes in once a month or so - but trying to get it to once every three months. Funny thing was - it was only a 45 minute drive into town!
“Obama will just sign an EO forbidding it to snow more than 6 inches.”
I have been told that there is a city law in Salt Lake City that limits how much the GSL can rise.
People out here tend to underestimate the resilience, foresight and weather/survival wisdom and experience of the average northeasterner.
Looking at how they vote you can see why
We were stuck with no power in freezing temps for two weeks on LI in one storm
We are burning furniture at the end
The dogs were shivering
I was referring to the storm last Thanksgiving. We lost power at my house for three days.
Thank you
One of the prepper conversations that I often have is with those that don’t think they are preppers. To which I ask them why don’t they go out and eat for every meal - they usually tell me it is to expensive. My response is ... So you “prep” by buying groceries that you store in your house that you will need during the next week.
About 10% get the idea and you can see the idea dawn on them. The rest are clueless.
In New Orleans the media reported that they were having to resort to cannibalism by the third day, I hope it wasn't as bad at your house.
I’m going to sit here in the toasty South (redstate) in front of my TV and watch the people who put Obama in power deal with the blizzard! I’m sure the few conservatives left up there are man enough to deal a few challenges.
That is very smart, I will adopt that.
After hearing stories from neighbors (and yours); my wife is glad she didn’t procrastinate until Sunday...the little snow that fell Saturday didn’t bother her at all.
That's what I recall. I don't think they count the fact that a storm of a foot or more occurred within a day or two of the 27" storm.
Nothing comes close in my memory. When I opened the garage door, the snow had drifted to 3/4 of the way to the ceiling. I just stood there with my shovel wondering where to shovel the snow.
When I finished shoveling, we could walk from the snowbank onto the roof.
I buy groceries by the pickup truck load and only go to town about every 3 weeks. We live prepared for most things around here.
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