I'm glad Colorado doesn't have hurricanes...

[Digitalpotato]

...because these idiots would either drown in their basements or starve to death on their roofs with no source of food because guess what their first instinct is in an emergency? That's right...go to bloody Subway to "Stock up". No, these idiots weren't getting just one sandwich...they were ordering like 5 for their friends or "another for tomorrow". Oh you think you're soooo clever...and yet anyone else would probably try a supermarket; or better yet, you would have shopped ahead of time so you wouldn't have to deal with the crowds of other people who didn't think ahead.

So right after CSU announced campus would be closed at 2, people literally stampeded into the student centre to bum rush the Subway. Uh, hello? CAMPUS CLOSES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR!!! We need to get to our homes too! Don't complain about how slow the line moves when about a zillion people swarmed Subway, at lest half of which are holding up the line ordering multiple sandwiches and piling a zillion veggies on there.

Also, don't complain to us over the phone because your food is cold. You ordered the sandwich toasted and then walked across campus in a snowstorm before eating it, now DEAL with it! No, we will NOT do deliveries, becuase
a) We are closed
b) THIS. IS. SUBWAY!!! We don't do deliveries in this one!
c) And no, the pizza place wont' do deliveries either. They've been shouting "We're closed! We can't do deliveries today!" for the past hour. No, I am not going to check and ask for you...they would like to close up shop in peace.

And to the guy who ransacked the chip rack...enjoy being arrested for shoplifting! The campus police was in here shooing people too stupid to go to an appropriate shelter, and we saw you take a zillion bags of chips off the rack. :P Don't steal stuff from Subway when there are no customers blocking our view.

[SG15Z]

You should see what happens down here when there is a hurricane coming. Even when the wind was really picking up and it started raining, people were still trying to get into the store and buy stuff. And when we said we were closed they flipped out. Sorry but I'm gonna go home and get to shelter while I still can since the storm is practically on top of us.Maybe you should have come earlier in the week like everyone else.

[Green_Fairy]

i don't know about other people, but since i know i live in a hurricane zone...i have a couple cases of water and nonperishable food, along with first aid stuff, batteries, ect. it just makes more sense to me to be prepared just in case. that way, i don't have to out and battle the masses.

[FenigDurak]

DU closed at 2 yesterday as well and I was in a class that usually lets out at 3. When I made the announcement (am I the ONLY person who signed up for the campus security txt notifications?!), one kid said "So if campus is closing, will the coffee shop still be open?" No. "But it's food! It's an essential service!" Hardly. "What am I supposed to do?" Drink the swill offered in the cafeteria or buy a coffeemaker the future.

Bah. I'm enjoying the snow days.

[Digitalpotato]

Well the whole text alert thing in theory woudln't work because Cell phones are supposed to be OFF during class, but they knew nobody actually follows that rule and everyone's texting away.

[trunks2k]

I've started keeping 15-20 gallons of beer in my basement. You know... just in case.

[raw456]

I've started keeping 15-20 gallons of beer in my basement. You know... just in case.

So we can all head to your place during the next emergency - right?

[Green_Fairy]

I've started keeping 15-20 gallons of beer in my basement. You know... just in case.

...genius!

[trailerparkmedic]

I've started keeping 15-20 gallons of beer in my basement. You know... just in case.

There's a bottle of vodka and a bottle of gin in my hurricane kit. Hey, you need something to do when the power is out!

[Green_Fairy]

There's a bottle of vodka and a bottle of gin in my hurricane kit. Hey, you need something to do when the power is out!

so do you have a bottle of lube and condoms, too?

[Ben_Who]

Because, as we all know, massive storm systems just sneak up on people with no warning whatsoever; you can be out mowing the lawn one sunny afternoon and an hour later there's a foot of snow on the ground...I've never seen a storm hit us that didn't give us at LEAST three days' warning, with the only real variable being the intensity.

It's a bit weird. Because our infrastructure is built for snowy and windy weather, it's a very rare storm that will actually knock out the grid or close the roads. (Well, except for a few mountain highways that no one was going to use anyway.) Yet for every threat of snow that comes over the television, the supermarket turns into a Who concert, with lines stretching the length of the aisles back into the meat department. Seeing as how most of the people in line have never actually SEEN a storm that has prevented them from getting to the market in an emergency, I keep wondering what the panic is all about.

A news article did point out that one reason for the mob scene clearing the shelves of TP like it's a zombie apocalypse might be because it's not that long ago that a storm _would_ paralyze the state. Those who don't remember the blizzard of 1978 have parents who told them alllll about it; and anyone over that age lived in a time when it was harder to get plow service in rural areas and the power would go out if you leaned against a telephone pole and sneezed.

Love, Who?

[AccountingDrone]

Those who don't remember the blizzard of 1978 have parents who told them alllll about it; and anyone over that age lived in a time when it was harder to get plow service in rural areas and the power would go out if you leaned against a telephone pole and sneezed.

Love, Who?

Actually our power goes out at the drop of an idiot driving too fast
We actually have a small generator because the damned power goes out so frequently, and I am in [barely] rural eastern CT [I live 15 minutes away from what I believe is the biggest casino in the country or the world, not entirely certain.]

however, being from western NY and the snow belt, we are always prepared

[bainsidhe]

OK, about the hot sandwich thing. Any Subway I have ever been to toasts the darn thing in front of you. It's steaming hot, full of warm, toasty goodness. And someone thought that complaint would work?

[jackfaire]

We get snow about once every other year and about every four years we get a really bad snow storm that lasts for like a week it's like freaking clockwork and yet every single time people act like it's the end of the world. Those every other year snows we are talking less than 12 inches.

Where i grew up I went to school in 3 ft of snow, not exagerating the school was open and if you could make it in you went my brother and me lived across the street so we went.

[Skrae]

I'm honestly surprised that I haven't witnessed a wreck, seems like people are a bit better about driving this year, but then again, I haven't cleaned 3" off my car and gone out before dark. Least it's stopped snowing for now.