Milk, bread and toilet paper southern style

[Catstar68]

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Me too. It always makes me wonder though...do people throw out snow shovels down here after each snowstorm? I mean, because they sell out of them everywhere and you'd think by now everybody would have one.

I like the snow, not so much for how pretty it is, but for how entertaining it makes things from a purely anthropological standpoint.

 

[Cat Water]

Oh, I have three stories about this.

We went on vacation in Los Angeles in Febrary of 2008. (little sister's idea

) A kid found a single icicle in the mountains and they closed all the schools and put it on the news.

They FLIPPED OUT!

There was a kid in my class that moved from Las Vegas and he had only seen snow once or twice in his LIFE. He said, "Once, the snow almost covered the entire road! Everything was closed!" That was the Fall before that really bad winter where we got like 20 feet of snow over the season.

Then they moved back.

On another vacation in NC, there was just a little bit of snow. Like a dusting. There was a taxi driver that refused to drive us anywhere because the conditions were "just awful, terrible!" So my dad said, "Alright. Let me drive. You sit shotgun. I'll pay you." So my dad drove the taxi back to the hotel.

 

[Rozzie]

I always have a cupboard full of canned goods, a few gallons of canned beans, and an extra 20 pound sack of rice. There is no way I'm going to hit a grocery store just because snow is predicted. Out of bread? I'll make some bread -- or biscuits, cornbread, etc. Or, I'll go without and have something else. I keep a box of powdered milk for baking. If we're out of milk, we'll just go without, or use powdered.

If I'm desperate enough, I could walk to the grocery store. I prefer not to support businesses during severe weather, though, unless they provide medical services or emergency goods. I'd rather they shut down and let their employees stay safely off the road.

 

[Dar]

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similar story....

hubby and I went to NC in the spring...

at home we still had snow banks that were 10 FEET + high..... actual accumulation was only about 4' though we still had our snow tires on the truck.

so we are now on our way home from NC and they get what we would call a dusting of snow and everything was so slow. there were people pulled over on the shoulder till it cleared.

NC highway patrol advised us not to go on the highway it was pretty rough.. so here we are in a full size Dodge Ram 4X4 with snow tires on.. the only one on the highway.. we made it home in record time that year..

 

[breezy]

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It used to not be like that here before Katrina ( I live basically ground zero,Hancock County MS) No one did much more than get gas and maybe crackers,tuna...lil stuff here and there.... Now we only have one grocery store left within a 20 mile radius (of course being the big ripoff wally world) so It's like a horror movie A WEEK BEFOREHAND!!!! Seriously..newsman says tropical disturbance and phroom...... Psycholand....As if our Wallyworld wasn't jamm packed on a normal day!!!

My brother deployed to Iraq from Gulfport. I went there to see him before he left. We drove around and saw the devastation that was Katrina. I was truly stunned. Unless you have seen it first hand there is no way to really understand what katrina did. We found a street that drove staight inland fron the beach and the flood surge damage was clearly visible for a mile inland and the damage was marked at what I would guess was 12 to 15 feet high. When I flew out we flew over New orleans and it was gut wrenching to see.

I admire people who have the strength to live in areas that can be hit by hurricanes. Im from Montana originally. When a big storm comes its usually snow and we can ride it out. We know how to deal with cold ice snow and wind. We can prepare for that easily enough and riding out that kind of storm isnt a huge deal, but when the storm comes with flood surge 12 feet deep and 115 mile an hour winds I dont see how anyone can prepare for it. I know that even a week of serious snow,leaving me with over 5 foot of snow down, isnt gonna take my house off its foundation. We northerners might poke fun at those who get weird over what we see as a non event in the form of snow but my honest admiration and respect go to you who live in hurricane country.

 

[PineappleMama]

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And now I've got that song in my head... in italian no less. Champions Liga did it a few years back, it's awesome.

 

[maizey]

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Me too. It always makes me wonder though...do people throw out snow shovels down here after each snowstorm? I mean, because they sell out of them everywhere and you'd think by now everybody would have one.

I like the snow, not so much for how pretty it is, but for how entertaining it makes things from a purely anthropological standpoint.

I don't think I have ever even seen a snow shovel, much less owned one.

 

[PineappleMama]

Only one I've seen was used to flip giant pancakes in Uncle Buck.

 

[Tala]

we used to use a snow shovel in the back room for an over-sized dustpan

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Oh my goodness, is everybody in this part of the country totally crazy? My wife asked me to go to the store for her and pick up a loaf of bread. We have some leftover turkey in the fridge and wanted turkey sandwiches for supper. The grocery store is a madhouse. People running everywhere, grabbing baskets and buggies full of stuff. I went to both stores and all three gas station / convience stores in our closest town (The little town we live in doesn't have a store) and there's not a single loaf of bread or gallon of milk to be had in ANY of them! It's crazy, it's just a snow folks, not a ice age.
So looks like homade chili tonight and the wife will just have to make some homade bread in the morning for our sandwiches.

The REALLY crazy part? We haven't had a single snowflake fall yet. Not one. Not even a little bitty teenie tiny one.