It snows in the mountains: true or false?
True! Wait, false? No... yes... uhh, purple? Forty-three. Gerald Ford!
Since I first moved here, I have been warned that Winter is long and bitchy, often giving us snow as late as May. And yet, the residents of this little town seem to forget all that the second the weather predictions turn itchy.
I swear, every time snow, sleet, ice or all of the above are forecast for the High Country, people here flip their biscuits (a-thank you, Lisa!).
Suddenly, the parking lot at Harris Teeter is a freaking zoo, all the baskets (both big and small) are taken and hoarded, and Lucy Logic has officially taken a backseat to Annie Alarmist.
What really amuses me are the things people deem as "essentials."
So, for the most part you see baskets teeming with milk, pasta, cereal, bread, bottled water, etc. These are the traditional items on which people choose to stock up when they think they're going to die.
On the other hand, you'll also see a couple college-age guys walking out of the grocery store with two cases of Coors and a 12-pack of toilet paper, looking pretty proud of themselves I might add.
What did I get at the grocery store, you wonder?
Thank you for asking.
I stopped off at The Teet for only the most basic items any woman may find indispensable when bombarded with the seven plagues of the apocalypse.
I got a wheel of brie and a copy of US Weekly.
Boo-yah.
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Sounds like you are sufficiently prepared! :) Enjoy the storm!
heehee i would have gotten chocolate and wine. :-)
If you would have grabbed a bottle of wine you could have lasted inside at least another 12 hours ;)
well if you're gonna die you may as well go out in style!! with a raging case of mudbutt on the pot with some good reading material...solid purchases. solid.
It cracks me up what people will stock up on if there's snow coming. What are you going to do with 10 gallons of milk? Seriiously.
AHH! Last night I bought the same copy of US Weekly!!! The one with all The Bachelor dirty secrets, right? So good, so good. And not to worry - the local Pay-less was just as crowded as your Teet and yet we woke up this morning without so much as a dusting. Miss you!
I love that you call it the Teet!
And with a wheel of Brie, I'm sure you can survive anything.
I lived in North Carolina for about a hot minute for grad school....the reference for Harris Teeter made me a bit nostalgic. It snowed (and by "snowed" I mean that there was a 1/2 inch of fluffy white stuff on the ground and I had to use a screwdriver and a CD case to get my car door open bc of ice) there ONE time and the entire University (UNCC) shut down...although no one bothered to tell "The Florida Girl" that. I did learn that a restaurant serving tray makes a fantastic makeshift sled though....
And you should never underestimate the power of brie!
Thanks for writing a blog that helps entertain me :)
people do the same thing where i live. a few flakes of snow and all hell breaks loose.
for us, as long as there is ice cream in the house, we are good. :)
well done!
i went to college in a very rural area... no trees, no hills, so when it snowed, it SNOWED. when we saw that we'd probably be snowed in for the week/weekend, the first order of business was to load up on the boones farm and duct tape.
and we'd play "40" hands with bottles of cheapo wine while watching chick flicks. at 10am.
i miss college....
Sounds like the scene at the big G last night when I went in for lunch meat. Every shopping cart gone. The bread aisle looked like a bomb went off. I got the last container of cat litter.
I only really care about getting to the liquor store on my way home for enough beer to last me into Sunday.
I left you something in my blog BTW. :) Happy snowstorm!!
I've never understood the "stocking up" thing. I mean, are your cupboards so bare that you won't be able to last a couple hours until the snowplows get out? I live in MN, I understand snow people...I've never "stocked up" on anything.
Perfect for any emergency situation!
Oooh, I wanna come to your house! Brie and US Weekly and I'd be set for days.
We have rain like 9 months outta the year here, but when it changes from summer to fall and starts raining; for some reason the people here forget how to drive. Hello, people, it rains ALL THE TIME how did you forget over the 10 weeks of sun we had?
I went to the store last night, and there were a ton of college kids, guys and girls, stocking up in the essential alcoholic beverage. It was entertaining and chaotic.
lucy logic takes the backseat to annie alarmist even when its just raining. panic mode sits in and suddenly nobody knows anything.
People really amaze me at times. It is just a storm you will all survive it! lol
Flip their biscuits!! LOL!
People are same way down here when hurricanes threaten. The lines at the grocery stores resemble black friday shoppers!
My essentials? Red wine and saltines! Both should have their own slot on the food pyramid;)
You have your priorities right.
I bought chips, milk, pepperoni rolls, and Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs. Forgot the donuts.
good luck in the storm, stay cozy and bake some cookies :0)
You know what you need to go with that wheel of brie? A jar of sundried tomatoes and some phyllo dough. Yummsters. We had the snowpocolypse here last weekend and Kroger was hysterical. No milk, no bread, NO eggs. Really folks? Eggs? It amazes me that people buy the 3 things that go bad the quickest. If you are snowed under for months at a time, you're going to want all the essentials that you leave at the Food Pantry barrel at church. Green beans in a can. Spam. Tuna fish. And beets. But I personally bought 3 bottles of wine, a bottle of champagne (because it WAS Champagne Friday, after all) and the makin's for a pot of chili. But the brie sounds good too. Good luck tonight. I hope the Abominal Snowman doesn't eat you alive.
I like your name so I stopped by.
hmmm, I am not sure what that would be like. We have never gotten more than like 6 inches of rain in a storm here in sunny CA...
yep. Rubbing it in.
Perfect! Sounds like my kind of emergency plan. You already had wine at home?!
The only addition I would have made is chocolate. I hope you enjoy your cheese and gossip.
I'm happy I avoided the Snowfest of 2010, but gosh... you would've been the one to consult in such emergencies!
Where do you live, Alaska? Snow in May???
amazing combo. You should add tostitos and m&m's though for next time.
Beer, chips and toilet paper... those are the essentials... unless you live with a woman, then you must have some chocolate in there too.
At least you didn't buy ramen:)
My roommate and I are surviving on Oreos and champagne.
I feel like this showed excellent planning skills on out part.
A-thank you.
Did you get the US Weekly with Jake on the cover?! Because I tried to buy that yesterday and they wouldn't let me; they said it wasn't supposed to be out until today!
Brie is good. US Weekly too. But I would have added a family-size pack of Kotex to the mix. You never know.
awesome. what the hell happened to the pop tarts though?
Kiran
Ha, I'm buying US Weekly when I go to the grocery store tomorrow. I want to read about Bachelor secrets you see.
i would've added hummus, pita chips, and a 2 liter of regular Coke. And maybe the Star.
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