I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!

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Anonymous wrote:I have four bags of marshmallows do you think that’s enough

No. Get one more.

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I know that I alone can stop the snowstorm if I buy new snow boots.

I'll let you know later what I decide to do.

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Fairfax County is going to shut down the schools for the week. Little birdy told me.

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Anonymous wrote:We have 5 types of shovels and a snow blower. And plenty of fuel and beer.

Don't confuse the fuel and beer.

[Anonymous]

Even with the giant 2 foot snow of 2010, pretty sure we were back out and able to get to stores with about 3 days. Chill. You are not going to starve to death, even if you don’t stock up on anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Even with the giant 2 foot snow of 2010, pretty sure we were back out and able to get to stores with about 3 days. Chill. You are not going to starve to death, even if you don’t stock up on anything.

DO NOT GO TO COSTCO today. Go on SUNDAY when people won't go out.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax County is going to shut down the schools for the week. Little birdy told me.

I am sure they will - would only take til Wednesday!

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Take stock of your freezer and pantry. You probably have enough food in there for many days. Maybe not your favorite meals, but it will do.
Everyone should have a stash, always. A few pounds of meat, frozen vegetables, beans and rice. Cans of tuna, jars of peanut butter. You are not going to starve. Maybe buy an extra gallon of milk if your household uses it a lot.
I will admit that if the power goes out, I am not looking forward to cooking in my fireplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax County is going to shut down the schools for the week. Little birdy told me.

That's always true. I grew up going to FFX Co schools and so did my kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Even with the giant 2 foot snow of 2010, pretty sure we were back out and able to get to stores with about 3 days. Chill. You are not going to starve to death, even if you don’t stock up on anything.

In 2016 we got 30 inches and a single plow did not touch my road for 5 days and even then they only made one lane passable.

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Anonymous wrote:Take stock of your freezer and pantry. You probably have enough food in there for many days. Maybe not your favorite meals, but it will do.
Everyone should have a stash, always. A few pounds of meat, frozen vegetables, beans and rice. Cans of tuna, jars of peanut butter. You are not going to starve. Maybe buy an extra gallon of milk if your household uses it a lot.
I will admit that if the power goes out, I am not looking forward to cooking in my fireplace.

We do generally have enough food but do you people not live within a couple blocks of stores and restaurants? Some one will be open to provide you food.

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Anonymous wrote:Take stock of your freezer and pantry. You probably have enough food in there for many days. Maybe not your favorite meals, but it will do.
Everyone should have a stash, always. A few pounds of meat, frozen vegetables, beans and rice. Cans of tuna, jars of peanut butter. You are not going to starve. Maybe buy an extra gallon of milk if your household uses it a lot.
I will admit that if the power goes out, I am not looking forward to cooking in my fireplace.

We do generally have enough food but do you people not live within a couple blocks of stores and restaurants? Some one will be open to provide you food.

People in suburbs can live really far out from town.

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived here since 2007 with numerous other serious snow storms and the only time we lost power for any significant amount of time was the derecho, which was a warm weather storm. I've never lost power during a snow storm.

I have been here since 1991. The Derecho caused a three day outage in neighborhood. I don't recall any long outages during the various winter storms that basically ended life as we know it in the area.

We lost power in the neighborhood during the 2 snowmaggeden years

Do you have above ground power lines? We do not where I am and rarely lose power.

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Anonymous wrote:How many times in the past have you ran out of food

As someone who was very poor and often went to bed hungry ages 8-17, you seldom completely run out of food. You run out of things that a sane person would consider ingredients for a meal. So you eat ketchup soup or a mustard sandwich. I think the worst thing I ate growing up that still makes me nauseated was white rice flavored with a packet of fast food Italian salad dressing.

OP will survive 4-5 days snowed in living in DCUMland.

I can live off a box of saltines for 3-4 days.

PB&J for me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take stock of your freezer and pantry. You probably have enough food in there for many days. Maybe not your favorite meals, but it will do.
Everyone should have a stash, always. A few pounds of meat, frozen vegetables, beans and rice. Cans of tuna, jars of peanut butter. You are not going to starve. Maybe buy an extra gallon of milk if your household uses it a lot.
I will admit that if the power goes out, I am not looking forward to cooking in my fireplace.

We do generally have enough food but do you people not live within a couple blocks of stores and restaurants? Some one will be open to provide you food.

People in suburbs can live really far out from town.

And those people usually have stocked up pantries and freezers.