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Quiz: It's going to storm, what do you need?
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Anonymous
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Okay, people, it's winter. Look in your garage. Look in your basement. Look on your shelf. Hell, look under your bed. If you are in the house for one or two days, what do you need? Do you pee? Excellent. TP. Check. Do you drink? Got it. Bottled water. Are these ALL things you need to stockpile on day four of the major storm forecast? Except for the olive person who thinks she's European. She might have a waiver. NAH. She's the first to go. Probably twice. BTW, each season has a stormy window. It's the East Coast. Bring in what you don't use every season, if it makes you feel better. But there is absolutely no excuse for what I saw at the grocery store. Really. |
Anonymous
| Mayhap this would have been more useful.... oh I dont know.... BEFORE Snowpocalypse! |
Anonymous
| I need my Kindle and the couch. |
Anonymous
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Everybody should have a way to boil water or heat soup if their power goes out. If you have a gas stove with electirc ignition, be sure you have some safety/strike anywhere matches stashed away and that you know how to light the burner if the ignition doesn't work.
If you have an electric stove top, make sure you have some alternate way to boil water or heat up a can of soup. I highly recommend the EcoFuel stove and can. I bought mine from this company in Alexandria: http://www.copeusa.org/orders.htm (Scroll down to the cooking section of the catalog) |
Anonymous
| Batteries for breastpump!!! |
Anonymous
| Alcohol for being stuck inside with very active preschool aged boy. The hours outside in the snow were just a warm-up for him. |
Anonymous
Just who the heck do you think you are? No excuse for what you saw at the grocery store-what the hell were you doing there then? |
Anonymous
| Coffee. Milk. Chocolate. Wine. Movies. Bread. Cheese. Repeat. |
Anonymous
| We didn't go to the grocery store. It was Michael's for projects for the kids and the wine store to entertain the grown ups. |
Anonymous
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Well, we went shopping on Thurs and Fri.
We got: TP, paper towels, ingredients for triple-chocolate chip cookies, coffee beans (there is at least one caffeine addict in the house who gets migranes without caffeine fix), and birthday presents. Glad we did. 
The triple-chocks were AMAZING. Holy cow. I do remember the storm of Jan/Feb 2003. Everyone was incapacitated for a week. We (my then-boyfriend-now-hubs) also ran out of most of our food (since we tend to buy for a few days at a time, rather than for two weeks). We ventured out to find food and we were able to find a couple of brown bananas and a very, very stale muffin. Which we purchased. And ate. Hah. Romantic. 
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Anonymous
| I went because I live in an apt and have no pantry or cabinet space to stock crap in. So I usually do my shopping on sat mornings. Knowing that wasn't gonna happen, I went on tue. |
Anonymous
| Lubricant. I need lubricant. |
Anonymous
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I was all set, I thought. TP, milk, bread, eggs, batteries, candles.
No contact lens solution. Oops. |
Anonymous
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For a teeny, tiny, corner in your apartment OR under your bed OR a corner of your closet:
Water Shelf Milk/Juice/Soda Batteries Wine/Beer/Liquor Sand/Salt/Flashlight/Matches for car (all year) Snacks that don't go bad. Also: Fire wood does nto go bad if you have a fireplace (and therefor, likely, some spcae on the porch, etc for it). I just don't understand the "run" on everything last minute. Is everyone a Southerner? |
Anonymous
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Oops. "not"; and "space" - typing too fast for a Southerner! |