People were NUTS in my local grocery, even mid-day yesterday. I call them "snow vultures", and they swarm, claw, and basically act like they're not going to be able to eat for at LEAST a WEEK! All while TOTALLY forgetting their manners, it's "me, me me", and walking around with vacant eyes like the Walking Dead, and/or knuckle-scraping mouth breathers. (Can you tell I HATE that mentality?)
I look in their carts with 7 gallons of milk, 5 dozen eggs, and 10 loaves of bread, and wonder if they're going to have the National Guard over for breakfast tomorrow morning.
I live in a flood zone, unfortunately, and have either lost power and/or flooded here from either hurricanes for just rainy seasons MULTIPLE times over the years, sometimes up to 3 weeks. I have had many dinners of canned pasta cold out of the can before it gets dark, listening to my battery operated emergency radio. Like I said, the worst has been if we lost heat, and it was cold, or power and it was hot, so no a.c. I have even evacuated to a shelter once, and self evacuated to a hotel a couple times. For many years I worked in Emergency Management, so actually used to be at work a lot of the time. The worst was losing the laundry rooms for sometimes months at a time, since they are in the basements, and flood. I am fortunate, however, to live across the street from a 24-hour chain supermarket, who usually gets back into operation quickly, even when they have to totally replace a lot of the stock. Most I think I'e seen them out is 2-3 days.
I will check in if I can Sam, thanx. Friends n Baltimore area told me it started snowing there about an hour ago (2 Eastern). They're supposed to get 1-2 FEET, only 6-10 INCHES by me, so I count myself lucky.
Maybe more Cdns should be grabbing the jumbo packs of tp, too. 
Just in case.
