People sure must be eating a lot of milk sandwiches, I tell you whut.

A shopkeeper once told me that “if they’re forecasting two inches of snow, the milk, bread and eggs almost literally fly out the door “!
I’ve occasionally had to go shopping a day before a snowstorm. I don’t think he exaggerated a single bit.
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That's interesting. Why not more important staples like beer and hard liquor?

Different store.

2 phuqqing inches ? That's all ? And the stores are out of chit cause they think they're gonna get snowed in for weeks ?
Try 8" - 12" several times a winter, -10 to -20 after the front passes, no school closures, the stores have plenty of chit, and nobody freaks out.

People stay stocked on the important items.

Remember snowmaggeddon 2014 in Hotlanta?

Not in "Free States" ???

Ummm....no

Price point. Nothing more.

In a city with hills, no snow tires, and a million drivers who've never driven in snow, you're better off to stay home and stay out of their way. I have a son in Seattle who can tell you all kinds of stories about their drivers in snow.

Yes, However that was predominantly ice on untreated roadways.

Not a foot of the powdery white stuff Out West speaks of.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU

If you show up in a grocery store anytime between the announcement of a possible snow event and it actually happening (if it does), you can be sure that there will be some shipdit there who will make some remark about you stocking up for the storm.

It's a southern snow thing.

In some areas they dont have ways of dealing with the snow and ice as its a rare event. Very rare. That said I have learned it is best to stay put a few days as in such places where these rare events occur it warms up in a day or so and everything melts. You don't need two weeks worth of supplies because the snow aint gonna be there that long.

A big problem with plowing snow in a city isn't getting it plowed. It's getting rid of it. They quickly run out of places to put it.

An ice storm in 1987 in south Tennessee left us without electricity for over 2 weeks. Temps were at zero or below, and power lines were down for miles. A wood stove for heat and a couple of freezers full of food made things tolerable, if a little inconvenient at times. Reconstituted powdered milk and fried cornbread cakes solved the "milk and bread" issue. Keeping stuff frozen without power was NOT a problem- - - - -just set it somewhere outside where the coyotes and other vermin couldn't get to it!

Unlike the great white Yankee north or awesome white west. Where you all get snow. Youre brining and pretreatments help some. Or seawater, etc.


Here in the mid and deeper south, most snow events almost ALWAYS begin as rain. So all that brine and chit gets negates. That or if an arctic air mass slides in first and we get warm Gulf of Mexico rain brought up and over in the atmosphere overriding the denser cold air mass.

No one ever thinks about that. Just quick to add their 2 cents via piehole.


I’ve seen ice, glaze and sleet hit northeaster cites and the news show dozens of cars tits up at the bottom of hills and other dumb asses that keep coming on and adding to the piles.

Farm Bureau cut me a check for $500 for the 1994 ice storm and power outage we had for about 10 days. I was only 23 years old so I only lost a couple of deer in the outage.

That one storm set a lot of future forward thinking for preparedness. It would still sting if we lost power like that for week to 10 days.

But hey at least we dont have rolling blackouts, commie governors, massive forest fires, like they do in the AWESOME WEST

Slum, there's a good reason damyankee is one word!

It's really not the weather....................in any location.........................it's the clueless drivers.


News a couple weeks back was interviewing folks at a chain up place on I 80. Dude was explaining he was trying to get his daughter back to school or some crap in Iowa, or Indiana, or someplace like that. In the winter, on I 80, over Donner Pass, in 2022, with things like Weather Channel, NWS, and even the local stations predicting a 12"+ on his day of the trip.

And dumbo had never put chains on his 2WD passenger car.......ever.

And acted surprised that it could be as bad as it was.

Slummster, ..................I agree with you..................I'll take our winter weather out here most any time over that stuff you folks near the Mason/Dixon line get. I hate friggen ice storms, snow on top of freezing rain, freezing rain on top of packed snow, and even out here I hate folks that think they can drive like normal in the snow and ice.


More folks should be like you, have 50 jars of Nana's beans and other groceries (smokes and booze too) stocked up so they don't have to go anywhere for a couple of days.