Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:35     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
This cannot be a serious OP.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:26     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:Step 1: Go look in a mirror

Step 2: Slap yourself

Repeat until you have your shit together.


Very convenient..all can be done right there in the bathroom..
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:23     Subject: Re:I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In case electricity goes -
- I have a gas stove and gas fireplace. I also have matchsticks.
- Food will not spoil because I can keep it outside in the patio in the snow.
- I have an unused bathroom in the basement. Any kind of storm in any season, I just fill the bathtub with water. I can always use that water to flush toilets and boil and drink if needed. With a snowstorm...you can always melt snow and drink.
- I always have a stocked pantry because I buy my shelf stable grains, flours, spices, lentils, tea, sugar, oil in large quantities. I also have a cold storage in the basement that has my onions and root veggies.
- All my prescriptions are filled and up to date.


If you are super nervous and want to prep at all -
- Get your prescriptions filled (or make sure you will not run out during the storm and digging out)
- Buy some drinking water. Fill a tub with water. Make sure you have food for a week.
- Fill gas in all your vehicles and snow blower.
- Charge all your devices and powerbanks. Charge your tire-inflator etc.
- Unplug appliances that you do not need in case of an electric surge etc. I always unplug the TV in my basement, games console, music system, electric piano, treadmill etc.
- Buy some candles, matchsticks and torch (with batteries).


Why are you filling a bathtub with water? Are you expecting the water supply to stop?


Water company loses power. We lose fresh water. Roaming gangs wander the streets looking to kill for water. Society collapses and we plunge into an ice age. That’s what I hear the weather man say.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:18     Subject: Re:I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We have food already and a generator, so no, not worried.


Husband rejected a generator because he can. Honestly, the older I get, the more I resent him


So, you have agency. Go buy one.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:07     Subject: Re:I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:In case electricity goes -
- I have a gas stove and gas fireplace. I also have matchsticks.
- Food will not spoil because I can keep it outside in the patio in the snow.
- I have an unused bathroom in the basement. Any kind of storm in any season, I just fill the bathtub with water. I can always use that water to flush toilets and boil and drink if needed. With a snowstorm...you can always melt snow and drink.
- I always have a stocked pantry because I buy my shelf stable grains, flours, spices, lentils, tea, sugar, oil in large quantities. I also have a cold storage in the basement that has my onions and root veggies.
- All my prescriptions are filled and up to date.


If you are super nervous and want to prep at all -
- Get your prescriptions filled (or make sure you will not run out during the storm and digging out)
- Buy some drinking water. Fill a tub with water. Make sure you have food for a week.
- Fill gas in all your vehicles and snow blower.
- Charge all your devices and powerbanks. Charge your tire-inflator etc.
- Unplug appliances that you do not need in case of an electric surge etc. I always unplug the TV in my basement, games console, music system, electric piano, treadmill etc.
- Buy some candles, matchsticks and torch (with batteries).


Why are you filling a bathtub with water? Are you expecting the water supply to stop?
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 22:02     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Nurse here who will have to drive into work at an area hospital: you will be fine. Consider yourself lucky if you don’t have to drive in this mess. Also PSA as a cardiac RN; aside from slipping on ice, snow storms also lead to lots of heart attacks (exertion from shoveling snow plus vasoconstriction-cath lab will be busy). Take it easy, listen to your body, know the signs and symptoms of an MI.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 21:56     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
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!

Um, four wheel drive and be cautious? Makes sense to me…
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 21:33     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is wild. This is an average day for my family in Vermont. Get a grip.


Yep, wild how living in a completely different region where the residents and city planners are accustomed to and prepared for receiving massive amounts of snow results in extremely different outcomes….and how people from colder climates seem to have such difficulty wrapping their heads around that fact.


We have had heavy snow in this area before. Several times.


Yep, but the last time we’ve had levels in line with the higher end of snowfall predictions for this storm was about 10 years ago and resulted in things grinding to a halt for days….a little different than the “just an average day in Vermont” that pp references.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 21:28     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Buy milk, leave outside if power goes out!
Buy a box of family size cereal.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 21:25     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is wild. This is an average day for my family in Vermont. Get a grip.


Yep, wild how living in a completely different region where the residents and city planners are accustomed to and prepared for receiving massive amounts of snow results in extremely different outcomes….and how people from colder climates seem to have such difficulty wrapping their heads around that fact.


We have had heavy snow in this area before. Several times.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 21:19     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
I hope it’s a bust. Not because I’m scared but because eff snow. And the aftermath around here is ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 20:57     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 20:50     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is wild. This is an average day for my family in Vermont. Get a grip.


Yep, wild how living in a completely different region where the residents and city planners are accustomed to and prepared for receiving massive amounts of snow results in extremely different outcomes….and how people from colder climates seem to have such difficulty wrapping their heads around that fact.


Like people in Cali posting how it’s 70 degrees. Sometimes it’s 1,000 degrees there Karen, and people died. Have respect.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 20:19     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:This is wild. This is an average day for my family in Vermont. Get a grip.

Ha ha. Have fun this weekend!
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 20:16     Subject: I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!


Display a Somali flag prominently in front of your house. Democrats will be delivering steaks & lobsters to your front door.


Sshhh don't spill the meeting minutes from the latest WineMomAntifa meeting all over the internet!


When they come for me they come for thee fools