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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Can you still see your truck? Covered?
No, the cost of living is already so high here most know it is unworkable...
No, I’m comparing Hurricane Sandy to an event that shut NYC’s public schools for the third time in about 25 years.
I thought people responded fairly well considering the population density; crime was at a minimum (probably less than normal because people could guard their homes, since everything was shut down).
I live north of Denver suburbs. Just as in any other city, some areas will get hit with more snow while others are less. Our housing area is in a bowl down by a lake and we typically get 10 to 20 percent more snow that an area just five miles over. Add blowing snow to the snow fall and we got a lot in our housing complex.
However, you are correct it was Dec 2006 not early 2007 like I was thinking.
The action may not be the same but the concept is and is a very useful way to break through some people’s mindset.
I think it is for sandwiches and hot chocolate.
All you need.
It’s been snowing all day here and has actually let up some since late afternoon.
So far 4-5 inches.
Holiday Blizzard Buries State
;)
Still snowing here....saying expect another 2 inches overnight....but othing like what the coast is getting...very little wind here now.
Looks like it stopped. Lines winding around the store islands for nothing. One store had a line for people to get into the store, like FAO Schwarz at Christmas.
Many of these fools spend a lot of time and energy disparaging preppers. I can assure you there are very few preppers in these pictures.
I don’t want to laugh at someone’s misfortunes (usually, unless it is obama manhandling an umbrella, etc.). But I think pointing out how unprepared people are is okay.
My BIL is in NJ. Last year they had a storm and he had no cash on hand, power was out all over, bad roads so he couldn’t drive. Wife and two kids. He was saying how they were “out of food” and when he walked into town he couldn’t even buy anything because he only had a credit card (power was out).
Sad to say, but a year later with this storm, I expect to hear a similar story.
I told my wife yesterday to text him to get ready, but she said “Why? He’s not going to listen.”
What a good idea. You will absolutely make some BIG Bucks.
I’m serious!
So they say!
With this ample warning that people received, it should have given the people who are affected by it, plenty of time to prepare.
I just sincerely hope that none of them read Free Republic and the posters who are saying ... “It’s no big deal! ... because THOSE FREEPERS are the real idiots!
My daughter lives in Red Hampshire and finally purchased a generator. What shocks me about New Hampshire is the fact that you so easily lose power, no matter what the season. For such a hearty state, it baffles my grey cells in that a puff of wind paralyses the whole state. What the hells up with that?
It sounds like deteriorating infrastructure on the electrical grid. They need to INVEST in beefing up and improving this important public infrastructure!
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