The media is full of panic over this east coast snow threat thats been announced. There’s all sorts of footage of people stripping supermarkets of bread, eggs and milk (because, apparently, blizzards are prime French Toast occasions). Then, naturally, the video cuts to footage of people in the south playing bumper cars when the heavens drop a staggering 3/4 inch of snow. Im pretty sure they don’t even plow the streets here until there’s about 4″ on the ground.
These snowstorms arent exactly uncommon, either. Isn’t there one every three or four years over there? And why doesn’t anyone remember from the last time to have supplies in place?
There are times I genuinely wish that we would have that big event that reads like something out of a bad novel…just so these short-sighted, stupid, dimwits would experience some natural selection and clean up the gene pool a tad.
It’s snow. It’s not radioactive anthrax falling from the skies. Stay home for two or three days and then go back to living a normal life.
How about just a series of back to back major snowstorms that cuts off power for several days someplace that SHOULD be ready for it, like Minnesota or Montana? It shouldn’t necessarily cause significant casualties but it MIGHT wake up the unwashed masses, for a while.
It would have to be bad enough to curtail travel for a couple days though to be effective.
Steelheart
Your French Toast comment I found to be hilarious. I’ve heard the reports but I never put it together that way.
I’ve seen some of the same reports of the storm panic and supermarket conditions. Having many thousands of eggs, gallons of milk and wheat in tonnage ranges, it boggles my mind that these people, who’ve been through many “rough” storms like this supposed ballbusters that are inbound, don’t figure out how to do it right with stored products season after season. I suppose it is the typical sheeple mentality of being under educated about these products and non aware. That’s fine, come the series of “big ones” lined up to kick our collective asses, it is probably a gift that they won’t survive. It won’t be pretty but one cannot educate those who refuse to be educated.
BTW, Ova Eggs “ARE” the way to go. Yes they are more costly but in scrambled egg tests I’ve conducted on non-likeminded family when they visit, they have never been detected to be different than the real thing. I’ve told them they are powdered eggs and now they ask if these are real eggs or powdered when served scrambled or french toasted. Sometimes I go real, sometimes I use Ova and they still can’t tell. I couldn’t do that when I used dehydrated as they always detected a strange flavor but not as bad in the french toasts we make.
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I agree that an asskicker event will doom these people but hey, Noah had the same problem. Given the state of the world, another Noah like event wouldn’t be a bad thing in my mind.
/sarc
Crap, now I gotta buy a friggin boat as I’ve just added another possible scenario to my list of many. Lol
/sarc off
JeffinIdaho:
I agree on the Ova Eggs. The come in bags (1 dozen eqiv. I think), a #10 can with 6 bags in it, and a #10 of loose. So make sure that you read the label when you are comparison shopping!
omg, i went by the store to do my usual thursday beer run. it was like the end of the world was coming. this after a solid week of the local news telling us to get ready. even the dog food aisle was empty. geez. then i wanted to top off the gas tank, you’d think every one was bugging out to warmer climes. we only have one gas station so it was chaos. never again. i figured after a week of warning i could do my regular chores unhindered by the panicked sheeple but i was way wrong.
well, to their defense we are supposed to get 2 feet with ice and 30 mph winds to boot. it could be mid week b4 we get dug out, lol. but i always marvel at how short memory is concerning these storms. 1994 wasn’t even on the list but it set up the same way and the nor’easter stalled off the coast of va and dumped 2 feet on us then. again in 2010 we got 2 feet one day, 16 inches two days later and a foot two days later.
Every year with the ‘snowmageddon’. You’d think easterners might be a little more ‘open’ to the idea of preparedness. But, “no”, they remain the same stupid, feckless, band of douchebags, demanding perpetual government rescue.
As a resident in South Carolina I will say this. We panic. That being said, it snows once a year, maybe, and then its like an inch of ice and .25 of snow. Plus everything shuts down so you cant get anything if you haven’t already gotten it. You are right people hear its coming and should plan ahead, they only last a day or two before its 70 degrees again.
kid’s school system shut down at 5pm tonight via robocall.
It’s 12:30am and it’s still not dropped a flake or rain drop.
The fear of weather is strong in this bunch…
I wish I could explain it. But as a MN/WI resident who spent a year in Huntsville AL, it defies logic. There was less than two inches of snow and you couldn’t get any staples at a grocery store or wally world. The shelves were EMPTY. And that’s if you were lucky enough to find a place that was open!
If you found any gas station/convenience store/food mart open, they were like ghost towns. It *did of course serve other purposes. If you want the rest of your neighbors to think that you are the crazy guy in the corner apartment, nothing cements that place in their minds like them watching you, their heads shaking, while you make snow angels in the parking lot while wearing shorts and a t shirt.
YES
Love the snow angel idea
Steelheart
Oh it happens every year.
I used to live near the MA coast, now living in Upstate NY. And I’ve decided that the coastal folks have a very odd view of how to handle storms. A few inches to even upwards of one foot no one blinks. By the time they predict two feet the whole area flips its lid. And yup, the last couple days before the storm hits you’d better not want to hit the gas station or the grocery store…..Why it can’t be done sooner I have no idea. The sad part is that most of the panicking folks living within walking distance of a minimart or gas station mart or the like, so even if they did get snowed in for days they could likely still get SOMETHING to eat if it came down to it.
Now in Upstate NY, a prediction of two feet in a day is greeted with a groan of “crap, the commute is going to suck”, and no one really blinks (things may close, but there’s no real run on stores). It takes something along the lines of a prediction of 6feet in a day to really get folks going. And when you start getting north of Central Square even that is generally greeted with rolled eyes!
Having lived most my life in NW Oregon, I understand the fear of snow! Especially since there it quickly turns to ice or slush. Where we live now, rain after snow is what I fear. If the forecast is for rain I call our snow plow guy to clear the driveway (1/2 mile) even if there’s only a couple of inches of snow. The slush can have us unexpectedly on foot.
But food, water, gas, heat? No problems. That’s never an emergency because we plan ahead.
I fondly recall when snow in northern climes received no coverage unless it was over a foot an hour. Makes me wonder if we were in a warmer period and there has been less snow in the lifetimes of the 20-35 yr olds. Maybe they just don’t KNOW that having a few feet of snow in winter above the Mason Dixon isn’t a big deal. Or wasn’t. Nope. The evidence seems to support they are all just non-planners.
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/forglvst/VAsnow/8903.pdf
Yea yea yea. People down here freak out over snow and ice. And we can’t drive in it. Uh huh. If it happened more often people down here might learn how NOT to drive in the snow and ice (a winter in Wisconsin taught me) as it is, people get a “crash course” in icy mix driving one day every two years. They look at the snow, put on their best Jeremy Clarkson face and say, “How hard can it be?”
But that’s ok. I saw a comment that bad up for all the bad mouthing from up north.
“Yes we freak out when it snows because it happens so rarely. Like a college up there winning the BCS championship.”