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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All you people laughing at this dangerous storm should be ashamed of yourselves. This is a NAMED storm (Juno). They only name dangerous storms, don’t they?
In Oregon and Oklahoma ... it happens just like that, whenever a snow storm is forecasted as being “on the way”. AND ... I’m right down there at the store too, along with everyone else (and the stores are packed, more than on any other time).
And it’s very normal ... actually ... as it’s possible under those circumstances to be holed up for a few days, so YES, get a few extra things!
I’m from Houston and grew up knowing that when a Hurricane is coming, fill the bathtub and make sure you have plenty of booze, a full tank of gas, and of course the rest of the stuff.
I’m really surprised that the old advice that the first thing you do is “fill the bathtub with water” has faded away.
I hope they get a whopping 5 inches (five). Anything to make DeBlahZero look more like a dope than he already is—such a deal.
The locate feral cats, possums, raccoons and other assorted wildlife thank you for your contribution.
It seems that some FReepers just “live” to laugh at a few others and their misfortunes!
There are no gas stations in your area with ethanol-free gasoline? You might want to think about adding sta-bil to your stored gasoline.
“It’s had for those in the Midwest to imagine, but most of the urban dwellers don’t have much food in their homes.”
As a Midwesterner, I get a huge chuckle from the self-created “shortages” of staples like milk, bread and for some strange reason, toilet paper, on the east coast whenever almost any amount of snow is predicted.
In Colorado, I think most people keep at least a month’s supply of basic stuff like paper products, canned and dried food and the like. For small snows, say under a foot, I don’t we don’t pay too much extra attention, because if we run out of something, why heck, we just drive to the store like usual, though a bit slower on the road. For bigger snows, I’ll check and make sure the egg supply is ok, and if not, I’ll go pick up a couple of dozen. That’s about it here in Colorado concerning snow.
But heck, what do I know? Maybe people on the east coast have to wipe their butts more during blizzards, so they have to stock up on toilet paper.
So the storm will reduce the feral cat population for sure.
Every time I get extra and get an economy pack, the woman of the house says, “Are you afraid of running out?!” ... :-) ...
Rookies.
If we got hit with a blizzard, even without warning, I’d be set for weeks.
If you live in the northeast, only an idiot would not think ahead for winter, and yet there seems to be plenty of them to go around.
As someone who has spent the majority of my life in the northeast, I’m trying to imagine when these shortages occurred or impacted anyone. This weird idea that the area turns into Venezuela when a snow storm hit is just that...weird.
Ooooh.... that begs for Knock Knock jokes!
KK
Who’s there
Juno
Juno who
No he doesn’t ... LOL ... I’ll guarantee you!
Sure, yeah...the guy who built a security fence around the mayor’s house so that no one could see him in his underwear will be personally shoveling his driveway...
New Yorkers can’t even have a dishwasher above the second floor much less a generator sitting on their Murphy bed. Now before you all clutch your pearls and head for the fainting couch, it’s that lack of amenities that makes NYers so tough. And we ARE tough.
More like seeing him toking.
Blizzards have sustained winds of over 35 mph and visibilities of less than 1/4 mile for an extended period of time (at least 3 hours).
After the Blizzard of 77 in Buffalo, every time they said the word *blizzard* people panicked, (understandably after that one and that wasn’t the only storm that shut down the city that year nor the next).
Anyway, after that, the NWS established criteria for what constituted blizzard conditions.
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