I warp minds as a hobby

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Last week Thursday, we had a thunderstorm roll in. One that darkened the sky enough to turn on all the streetlights at quarter to 11 in the morning.

So naturally all us freight people decided to venture outside to spend part of our lunch break.

Go freaking figure, it looks like a tornado could drop out of the sky at any minute and that's when everybody wants to go shopping. The store got really busy and people were still pulling in.

As we were outside, a couple ladies approached from the parking lot. One said to us "Is there some kind of warning? She's (meaning the other woman) afraid of tornadoes."

I told them "Well, if you see us running, try to keep up."

As for the storm, it just produced a little wind and a lot of rain.

[blas]

We had the same weather pretty much Thursday through Sunday morning.

Saturday afternoon, I'm lucky I showered when I did. I got out of the shower and my apartment on the one side (where the bedrooms are) was as dark as it gets at night! It rained so hard, while I was in the bathroom getting ready, I could really hear the rain. One of my biggest fears is the power going out while I'm in the shower.

One giant boom of thunder, and my downstairs neighbor's baby was wailing for hours.

[patiokitty]

I've noticed that whenever the weather looks grim people tend to flock to the stores. The grocery stores are damn insane here when we're expecting a storm - it's a lot like Black Friday down in the States, I swear! People flood in and have been known to fight over the silliest of things. Me, I just avoid the stores during those days because 1) I know how crazy the store will be, and 2) I'm usually pretty well stocked with stuff I can eat in case of a power outage.

Here we get nasty storms fairly often so these scenes are repeated several times during the year. By now you'd think people would learn to think ahead but no such luck so far. Oh well, such is life!

[Kristev]

The rain would also attract the dumbbunnies to go to my store, as well. As would the snow. There were never enough dry mop heads to go around. Brilliantly, the mismanagers would demand we remove the mats and the fans as soon as the storms were gone, so that once again, when there was a storm, they couldn't be found.

There was never really a quiet time at the Little shop of horrors.

[Racket_Man]

I will say this again. 2 raindrops or 2 snowlakes and my pizza place's phones go nutz. OOOOHHHHHHHH the world is coming to an end....... MUST HAVE PIZZZZZAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOWWWWWW

Enough said enough times

[Teefies2]

Having spent 15 years in Florida, it never ceased to amaze me ....

You live in a VERY hurricane, or at the least tornado/lightning, prone area of the country AND YET you have not learned to stock up?? Every single time the weather would get bad, EVERY SINGLE TIME!!, people would flock to the stores for ..... milk, eggs, and bread.

HUH?

If it's a hurricane, the least of your worries is milk, eggs, and bread. If it's a lesser storm causing a power outage, how the heck are you going to keep the milk and eggs cool? We twice spent an entire week (due to a hurricane - and yes we were thankful to be alive) without power in FLORIDA in AUGUST !! and we survived just fine (well other than being hot and stinking from no water for showers). Yanno why??? Cause we didn't buy milk, eggs, and bread. We bought candles, bottled water, canned food, and a can opener - AHEAD of the storm!!!

Is it really that hard??

[blas]

Meh, I knew it was going to happen because of the popularity of the movie, but it just seemed too fitting that on the gloomiest weekend in a while (save for the weekends where it's been barely near average temps *coughAprilweekendscough*, every day of the weekend it either stormed or rained heavily......everyone flocked the mall and the movie theaters.

Friday evening at the salon was pretty quiet, which was nice, though.

[Dreamstalker]

Quoth Teefies2

If it's a hurricane, the least of your worries is milk, eggs, and bread. If it's a lesser storm causing a power outage, how the heck are you going to keep the milk and eggs cool?

My store gets the same dumbfuckery except with frozen food. Part of me is waiting for someone to get sick from trying to eat a raw frozen item (burger, chicken breast, etc) during a power outage and attempt to blame the store because "you didn't tell me I had to cook it!".

Cold stuff will stay cold for a few hours if you don't open the fridge/freezer a lot, but I wouldn't wait very long to eat or cook what I can (assuming it's safe to use the gas stove).

[mharbourgirl]

After the 2003 Hurricane stomped NS flatter than Saskatchewan, we had a couple of pounds of bacon in the freezer (among way too much else, MIL is a food hoarder), we fried the whole lot up on the bbq. BBQ is your friend during an extended power outage, at least until every retailer within 300kms is out of propane tanks. To say the province was unprepared for a natural disaster of that magnitude is putting it mildly.

Ever since, all that has to happen is RUMOUR of bad weather and the grocery stores get mobbed for the trifecta of milk/bread/eggs, propane, and ice. And I just roll my eyes because I can make bread, even if I have to bake it in a can on the bbq. I don't drink milk, and eggs will keep for weeks if you can just keep them cool. It's BACON that's the problem. Gotta eat that up right away, because it won't keep. And I am... rather fond.. of bacon.

[cashierbex]

Oh yes, I remember the hurricanes in Florida. My house and my uncle's house lost power. But my step-mom's dad's house had power. It was nice to feel rich for a week.