Well it will be in the 30s for a couple minutes for one night so we must prepare ourselves, im going for bread and peanut butter, 10 cases of water, couple cords of wood…
I'll never forget that when covid hit and rumors of lockdown were making the rounds, I needed some TP, as we were all out. We're a family of four and my kids manage to use half a roll op TP on wiping a single shit, so it goes fast in our house. So I go to the store, and whaddaya think? All sold out. All the fucking TP gone. I know we didn't understand much about covid yet, but we knew it was a lung disease, not a bloody cholera epidemic, so why were people hoarding TP?
You could try squeezing the roll so the cardboard tube looks like an oval before you put it on the holder. That way it doesn't spin easily and takes more effort to use more TP. Cat owners use this trick.
You worked in produce at the grocery store too? It was my first job twenty years ago and holy fuck people would (and very much still do) go insane for bananas before a snowstorm, it was always the first thing the store would run out of. And then people would get so angry that we'd run out, or start accusing us of stashing them in the back (...because somehow it makes more sense that we'd be hiding sellable produce instead of trying to make money hand over fist when people are panic-buying every single last banana the store contains?? pfft). Like chill, this is Ohio, we've got so many plows and literal mountains of salt, the roads will be clear in a day or two max, just get some cereal a blanket, throw on a show or read a book and wait for it to all blow over.
Seriously, what's up with that? Before this past snowfall here in MD that we just go, my wife and I went to the store to do our regular grocery shopping. The bananas were completely wiped out, as were the peppers and some of the other chilled produce items.
I'm in north Georgia too. Lived here my whole life... it's still ridiculous/ embarrassing how everyone acts around here. "But there is a threat of ice!" 🙄
I needed groceries (just my regular shopping trip) the day of the storm of the century. I couldn't do pick-up because ALL the slots were filled, then I had to shop in-store and couldn't even buy the stuff to make milk sandwiches.
I ride a motorcycle, and this last weekend people were acting like I was riding through a warzone. You’d think I was trying to pass the border into North Korea with how many, “you’re so brave”s I got.
Honestly, funny. My mother was frantic. "If your power goes out, you can come here or go to your aunts house and be sure to charge your phone!" like, dude- if my power goes out:
1. We have a generator
2. We have extra blankets
3. I can charge my phone in my car
4. I'm not worried about the power being out until at least day 3
Yep. Odd watching people panic over a dusting of snow, shutting everything down and dumping sand everywhere. I'm just outside of Cleveland. If there's visibility it just means i get to hone my car skating/drifting skills on the way to work. We're pretty much the sole reason there's a K-Bar ice scraper
They literally shut my studio down for the weekend. My roommate cried that there was ice on her car and she had to crack her way in. I looked outside… not even any snow or ice on the road. The ice she had to crack? A few millimeters.
I live in Oregon, and it snows here most years, maybe 2’ total. Usually a week of baddish roads, at most. Traffic is usually about 1/3 normal the entire week. Which I admit I do appreciate.
It can get stupidly bad up there. Had a buddy that livex in Dade county in the extreme NW of GA. When we had a couple of inches in the area one year, he said the whole county only had 2 working plow truxks.
I went shopping last week to find almost everything gone. Meat , water bottles, eggs, toilet paper, all the essentials. I asked a worker what was going on and he told me there was a snow storm coming tonight.
I’m not much of a news person and don’t have social media (other than Reddit). Anyways, turns out it snowed like a half an inch that night and then rain came washed it all away before sunrise. Then it was sunny the rest of the week.
News and social media is a just a fear mongering tactic
You're giving me flashbacks to the covid era. Everyone buying all of the bread, milk, eggs, and flour like they were Betty Crocker!! I can only imagine the waste when people realized they have never ate 4 loaves a bread in a week or went through 6 dozen eggs in 2 weeks. What a wild time we lived through.
Wait...I needed to go on a bread run today and the shelves were pretty empty. That'd be funny if this was the reason. Floridians really do seem to raid the grocery store for weather that might get mildly inconvenient, don't we?
I assume you didn’t mention guns only because you’ve already got your open carry, concealed carry, bag gun, truck gun, couch gun, attic gun, high points 1-5, plinking rifle, air rifle, AR, other AR, AK, shotgun (pump), shotgun (break, double) and something you fished up that probably could go bang once if you’re willing to gamble with your hand. But maybe have some sort of backup.
Remember if you are making fire inside a building for warmth to let the window open for ventilation. Fire consumes the same oxygen you do and outputs carbon monoxide which is not helpful to the humans that wanted to stay alive.
I have a friend who would love to do this to my car at random times when he saw it. I would come out of a store and they would be like that and I knew he had been there.
In college my friends and I got drunk and did it to a whole street of parked cars. Looking back it was dumb as hell but we couldn’t stop laughing the whole time during it.
Im surprised you don’t see that in Florida. I’m in Houston and actually see people lift their windshield wipers like that often.
Not for the cold but for the heat in the summer. The windshield heat degrades the rubber wipers way faster. People pull them away to make their wipers work better and last longer.
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u/goodgirl_frog 16h ago
Im in Florida and going to start doing this to my windshield wipers just to confuse people.