Let's stock up... for the snow!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Dunno about anywhere else, but round where I am the merest hint of snow, or even a prediction on the news, will get practically everyone charging into the supermarket to stock up. -.- Which they did on Wednesday. It snowed today... for about half an hour and didn't settle. Well, that was worth stocking up for, wasn't it?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Happens here, too. Toilet paper, milk, and bread.

[Ill_Used_Heroine]

REEEAAALLLY happens here on Maui, especially because we have a limited supply of, oh ... EVERYTHING! So yeah, one hint of any sort of bad weather and all the fools go running to any and every market and buy up as much as they can (toilet paper, rice, water, etc.) and it's just TOO BAD for the people who get there late and there's nothing left. Humanitarians, all.

[edicius]

Around here, it's always milk, eggs and bread.

I always have visions of everyone cuddled up warm in a blanket eating French toast while the snow rages outside.

[retaildrone]

They are like that in Texas and North Carolina as well.

I just do not get it. I know that in Texas, all the ice is clear by noon- almost like there was never any to begin with. Still, everyone charges to the grocery store the night before as though they are going to get snowed in for days!

[crazylegs]

Why is it down here everyone buys perishable goods rather than tinned...?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Happens here, too. Toilet paper, milk, and bread.

That's what they buy here, too. -.-

[rvdammit]

Why is it down here everyone buys perishable goods rather than tinned...?

Lot of snow=free freezer?

[Misanthropical]

Here in PA, where it snows EVERY DAMN YEAR, people will lose their mind when they even mention the hint of snow.

The supermarkets will have lines all the way down aisle with people buying up all the eggs, milk and bread.

I swear, it's like these idiots have never had snow here in their lives, even though it happens every single year. They acted shocked that it's happening again.

[FlamingSickle]

Here, just outside Washington, D.C., people rush in to get toilet paper and other basic supplies, as well, not to mention any prescriptions they may need within the next month. (My mom has to deal with those paranoid customers, as she's a pharmacist.) They also empty the stores of snow shovels before each forecasted storm. God only knows what they did with the one they previously had from last year or even the prior storms from the same year. Do they throw them out when the snow melts?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Why is it down here everyone buys perishable goods rather than tinned...?

Why not? Right now, it's cold enough you can leave your perishables on the porch (of course, that's going to change by this weekend, and we'll be in shorts again, but there you go) .

Which I actually did the time we got an ice storm that knocked out the power for a week (an extremely rare event down here). I put it in a cooler and filled the cooler with icicles. Worked great!

[Foxglove8778]

Here in PA, where it snows EVERY DAMN YEAR, people will lose their mind when they even mention the hint of snow.
The supermarkets will have lines all the way down aisle with people buying up all the eggs, milk and bread.

Know what always amused me about this?
What do you make with milk, bread & eggs?

Oh GAWD! It's going to snow!!! French toast for everyone!!!

[Tito]

What used to crack me up back in my retail days, is that whenever there was any kind of severe weather predicted for our area (blizzard, ice storm, hurricane), people would come in & stock up on frozen foods, dairy products, meats, etc. HELLO!!!! There's a bad storm coming! Why are you stocking up on items that you need your refridgerator & freezer for, when there's a good chance you'll loose your electricity????

And yes, in my area, the instant it is announced on the TV or radio, the bumbling hoarde of humanity flows forth from their homes with riot like urgency to rush to the store and stock up. In my area, the roads are almost always perfectly clear an hour after the storm is over with. These people act like they will be snowed in for a month.

[Imprl59]

I spent my first 30 years in Chattanooga, TN. In all that time the worst storm we had kept me in the house for a weekend... Even knowing this all the weatherman had to do was make the "S" sound in snow and there wouldn't be a loaf of bread left in the city. I never did understand.

Steve B.

[ShinyGreenApple]

Wouldn't know what snow storms are like, but I've got three words for you.

Hurricane season. Florida.

Doesn't matter if the damn storm is 600 miles south of us, so long as it's projected to head our way, all the stores will be stripped clean of bottled water and batteries. And oddly enough, people buy booze and chips like it's the Super Bowl as well. Hello? Salty food = THIRSTY.

We did lose power for three days one year. Twice, if I remember correctly. And the strange thing was, we didn't even run out of things to drink seeing as there had been plenty in the fridge already. But boy, were we ever sick of drinking milk and eating sausage patties. Mum was trying to serve it up before it went bad!