Bread and Milk (Updated) 5
About four inches of snow so far (measured on the tonneau cover of my pick ’em up truck when I picked up my paper from my delivery person who does damned good work) and more coming.
I’ve ranted before about the screwy response of Delawareans to a forecast of snow. They act as if they were packing to explore Antartica. On foot. With no dog sleds.
The local rag did a piece on that today.
What I can’t figure out is why the story started with a report from Lowe’s.
Delawareans can be screwy, but I’ve never heard of one stocking up on plywood and nails and plumbing fixtures before a snow storm.
Addendum:
Bill, in the comments, suggests they were thinking “snow shovel panic,” which I didn’t think of because I have a snow shovel–same one I’ve had for 15 years. I think we had snow shovel panic earlier with one of the snows we didn’t have earlier.
Mithras reports chaos in his home town:
March 2, 2009 at 10:14 am
I was in our local Lowe’s yesterday picking up a new vacuum closer for a storm door. Several folks were in line with snow shovels and deicer. A few were looking at the leftover snow blowers on display. That kind of action may have been why they decided to start at Lowe’s.
March 2, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Well, that makes sense. I think the run on snow shovels already happened this year, though. You don’t run out of snow shovel.
March 2, 2009 at 5:07 pm
We haven’t had enough snow or even enough snow in a forecast (prior to this one) to create a run on snow shovels or deicer. I saw snow shovels, snow blowers, and the like on clearance prior to this weekend. This was “the big one.” Just late in the season. High school baseball practice was supposed to start today. First scrimmages are scheduled for this weekend. Not sure the weather is going to cooperate.
William was supposed to play this weekend in Petersburg, Virginia. He called me yesterday from a mall in Chester, VA. No baseball for him this past weekend. I guess the coach wanted them to get out of the motel and the mall was the next best thing. At the time they were having rain – guess it had been raining there for several days. They’re moving on to Greenville, South Carolina where the forecast for the rest of the week looks more promising.
March 2, 2009 at 5:55 pm
“…sheer milk-bread-and-egg-buying panic has broken out, with milk-bread-and-egg riots devastating large swaths of the city…”
Now that’s funny. Wish I’d thought of it.
March 2, 2009 at 10:57 pm
It was the best laugh I had all day.