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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're joking, right? Please tell me this is sarcastic. Do not be that person who cleans out the shelves at the grocery store. Shame on you if you do.

This area will get all major roads plowed in a couple of days after the storm. Grocery stores will restock during that time. If there's a lot of snow, your side street might not get plowed for a few days, so either you walk to the store, or you keep a *reasonable* stock of food for a few days.

You should have a *reasonable* quantity of basic necessities at home, including batteries for flashlights, lighters/matchsticks to light your gas stove if you have one, a bit of firewood for your fireplace if you cleaned the chimney recently, pantry and household items, ice melt that's pet-friendly, a shovel and ice-scraper/brush for your car, as well as snowboots for everyone.

Boom scenario: 20 inches of snow for DC. 
Bust scenario: 6 inches of snow.
Worst case scenario: freezing rain and ice event, that will cause power outages. But that last is a remote possibility, so stop stressing about it.[/quote]

But everyone stocks up before blizzards.[/quote]

You don't need to. That's lemming behavior. At worst, you need to shop for just ONE week. To most people, this represents the usual grocery store run.

And technically, we are not anticipating a blizzard, because the coming winter storm has no significant wind. Thus, no blizzard. This is a winter snow event, and possibly, if we're unlucky, a winter snow /ice/freezing rain event.

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