It is Friday, so I went and did my weekly shopping. We are expecting a storm, so the grocery store was packed! I think it is silly, but it happens every time, so I wasn’t surprised.
However, since the NFL Big Game is Sunday I stopped for beer as well. Oddly, they were packed too. The guy told me that he had averaged one customer per minute since he had opened. He said that in his experience, this was in response to the storm, not the game.
Bread, Milk and Beer, the big three of storm preparation.
I had a kegger right before the blizzard of '03 in Denver. Every one left when the snow started falling so I still had about half a keg of beer left. My roommate and I just left it on the balcony packed in snow. It was great I’d get up in the morning and have a pint every half hour all day long while I watched the March madness tournament. I can’t think of a better way to spend being snowed in except with a hot woman.
Of course the downside is that we hadn’t stocked up for the storm and all we had for that week was leftovers from the party and so it was chips and hotdogs for a week but at least the beer was good.
I’m ready for the snow. I cleaned out the fireplace and stacked a nice pile of dry, split wood. The cd changer is set with 5 great discs. Two bottles of wine are set out on the kitchen counter. There are fresh “D” cells in the battery drawer.
The only question is whether or not my gf’s flight back from Atlanta (business) will be delayed or canceled.
If I’m going to be snowed I usually make a big pot of stew. I like to have a beer with a bowl of stew, and since I clearly won’t be going anywhere if snowed in… sure, why not?
(Though currently I am beerless as my financial situation is such I can’t justify buying alcohol which is, after all, a luxury.)
I heard a local referring to the BMTP index (Bread, Milk, Toilet Paper) saying he thought it was a 7.5 or 8 on a scale of 10. Well, I ran into Food Lion for some mozzarella (I’m building a lasagna) and it was definitely 11 of 10 in there. Totally nutso!!!
I’m going to make a big batch of sloppy joes, a lasagna, and maybe some brownies. We’ve got milk and bread, chips and dips, and a big bag of peanuts. What else could one want??
Zoo rama holiday in the local stores here in Baltimore, too. Our pantry is generally stocked enough to carry us through a few days so I don’t really get the panic mode.
It’s been snowing since just about 11:00 and so far not accumulating. I wonder if I’m overly prepared.
It is coming down quite steadily right now, but so far not accumulating here either. I salted the driveway, although my bag of salt was not what I wanted.
I usually buy a few bags of water softener in the summer for the winter because it is cheap and I need water softener salt anyway, but this bag had wrong-sized chunks. I didn’t have the energy to go back to the riot in the stores, so I used what I have.
Isn’t this the second massive storm to hit southern PA this year? I know my dad, who lives in York, had to dig out from a foot and a half of snow recently.
What a weird winter. Up here north of Buffalo we’ve allegedly had ~40 inches of snow this year, and currently there’s only about two inches on the ground. Southern PA might get that much in two 24-hour periods this year. And they say Buffalo is the snow capital of the Northeast…
