Grocery store not any more crowded than usual

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debodun

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With the big storm predicted this weekend, I was surprised the grocery wasn't more crowded. Usually when people hear a bad forecast, they go into panic buying mode. Thursday is my normal shopping day and I just bought my usual groceries. Maybe as it gets closer to the storm's arrival time it will pick up.
 
When the weather man uses the S word in Tennessee the grocery stores see a windfall of panic shoppers. Sometimes I wonder if there is a conspiracy afoot just so grocers can clear their shelves before products go out of date. The forecasted weather threat in Tennessee is already showing huge forecast reductions. Looks like we are headed toward another heavy frost.
 
Our store (Walmart) was crowded when I went Tuesday. I went to the gas station awhile ago and overheard people saying things were "flying off the shelves." I already have what I need.
I'm far more concerned about power failures due to ice accumulations rather than running out of paper towels. If that happens for an extended period, water lines will freeze and burst.
 
debodun said:
With the big storm predicted this weekend, I was surprised the grocery wasn't more crowded. Usually when people hear a bad forecast, they go into panic buying mode. Thursday is my normal shopping day and I just bought my usual groceries. Maybe as it gets closer to the storm's arrival time it will pick up.
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They were probably all at Costco. That's what usually happens.
 
I pulled into the local grocery & the lot had quite a few cars in it for the time of day. It was also senior discount day & no one had full baskets. Usually before the storms everyone has their cart filled up with milk, bread & tp.

I just need a few items we ran out of along with a lottery ticket.
 
Update. - Husband said when he finished filling our tanks there were still 50 people in line. The store employee said they’d had to fill their large holding tanks 3 times that day.

I just hope no one manages to blow up their house or asphyxiate themselves with a generator in the next couple of days.
 
MountainRa said:
Update. - Husband said when he finished filling our tanks there were still 50 people in line. The store employee said they’d had to fill their large holding tanks 3 times that day.

I just hope no one manages to blow up their house or asphyxiate themselves with a generator in the next couple of days.
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Amen to that - the blowing up part.

The cord that runs from my generator to its own plug is 8AWG - I THINK. It is at the back of the garage so the exhaust goes outside. It is not wired for an automatic transfer switch, so I have to manually flip the house circuit breaker before turning the generator on.

We are still on track for an ice storm, but how much ice is still up in the air, so-to-speak. It was noted on the Weather Channel that half inch of ice on the lines, is comparable to a 500 pound pull, without adding in the wind🥶🥶

Today is sunshine with a high of 38 degrees. The ice hits the fan sometime Saturday and is supposed to move out of the area sometime Sunday. The frigid temps linger thru Tuesday night with a predicted night time real temperature of zero — suntan weather for MN, WI, MI, and other northern states.

Yepper, where IS that weather person who said we would have a mild winter — mild for Siberia maybe ———
 
Whopping high temp for the day here will be 14F & low of 4F. Weatherbug says tomorrow will be 11F with snow at 30% chance at 6 pm & up to 90% at 10 pm. It goes up to 100% on Sunday at 5 am & will continue the rest of that day. I'm hoping they are wrong on the amounts, but we are pretty much ready for it.

I hope whoever is in the ice-range doesn't get what they are calling for. My nephew in TN looks to be in the middle of it.
 
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