I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Please do it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

That’s hilarious. DH wants to buy a snowblower and I told him as soon as we did, we’d get no more snowfall this year. He said that was a great reason to buy.

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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.

It's literally minutes to the nearest grocery store. Sometimes, I get a little faint on the long journey.

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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.

And did you you have enough food to live on for a whole 5 days?

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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.

Rural areas maybe. But in the suburban part of Loudoun where I live there are stores everywhere.

[Anonymous]

We still haven't finished our COVID pile of canned goods.

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Anonymous wrote:What if we lose power or run out of food? I mean they won’t even be able to get to us to rescue us with blocked roads!

Are you in the Artic Circle? If not. You are absurd,!

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Anonymous wrote:What if we lose power or run out of food? I mean they won’t even be able to get to us to rescue us with blocked roads!

How many times have you run out of food? Come on this has to be a fake post.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

And did you you have enough food to live on for a whole 5 days?

Nope. I’m the only one on the block who survived. Oddly, no remains were found of my neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:We still haven't finished our COVID pile of canned goods.

How many cans do you think is left?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

And did you you have enough food to live on for a whole 5 days?

Nope. I’m the only one on the block who survived. Oddly, no remains were found of my neighbors.

Probably taken by Yeti. It happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused by the panic. We got around 10 inches in 2019, and this storm is projected to be around that or less. That's not that long ago. I don't even remember that storm being that big of a deal other than, I recall, it being a huge pain getting our alley clear of snow because it didn't get warm enough to melt it and we didn't have enough shovels or other gear to clear it ourselves (we tried), so we didn't have trash service for a week and some people couldn't get their cars out. Which sucked but is not something I'd say I'm "scared" about.

I was also here for the Snowzilla in 2016 and while that was a ton of snow for DC (like 18 inches) it was also not some dire event. I worked from home for a week, I remember going cross country skiing around our city neighborhood (a total blast), and we never lost power.

And then remember winter of 2009, I think, where we had Snowmageddon which I think was two separate storms a week or two apart that both dropped a ton of snow? It took weeks to dig out of that one and I know there were power outages in some places but also... it was fine. I was working for a law firm at the time that bragged about how people were in the office every single day of that storm (this sounds so stupid now in 2026 when remote work is so easy and there is zero reason to drag people into a white collar office during a snowstorm for "client service"). I think I missed one day of work because, while I lived walking distance away, the snow was coming down so hard that I walked about two blocks and then decided it was stupid and called in (had to use my own leave!).

You might recall that everyone died in Snowmageddon. We were replaced by DISA clones a few days later to keep the public from panicking. Of course, not everyone has figured out they are a clone, yet.

lol!

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People - we are getting 5-10". Everything is going to be ok.

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Honestly, my biggest concern is no trash collection next week. My bin is small already for our family.

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Anonymous wrote:Buy milk, leave outside if power goes out!
Buy a box of family size cereal.

The milk freezes and you have no way to thaw it out. Sometimes people have no logic.

If outside is 20 degrees and the house is above 40 degrees, then put the milk in the garage.

If the garage is below 32, put it just inside or outside the door between the garage and the house. Or in a cooler that will keep it above freezing.

If the house gets below 40, put the milk on the counter.

I mean, somewhere among the porch, garage and house, there is a temp in the 37-40 range.