# I hope dopers in the NE US are prepared and hunkered down.

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**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-dopers-in-the-ne-us-are-prepared-and-hunkered-down/710974 "2015-01-27T02:44:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-dopers-in-the-ne-us-are-prepared-and-hunkered-down/710974/1 "2015-01-27T02:44:09Z")

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If you live in an area that will be hit by this bad winter storm, are you ready. If the power goes out will you be okay?

I sure wouldn’t have wanted to work in a grocery or hardware store in the last couple days, I’ll be it was utter chaos.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-dopers-in-the-ne-us-are-prepared-and-hunkered-down/710974/2 "2015-01-27T02:49:58Z")

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I hadn’t seen the thread PastTense started about the blizzard. You can put this one on ignore. Sorry.