Here Comes The Snow

Late this Saturday evening, the cars are in the garage, the snow blower
is oiled, greased and gassed and ready for the expected blizzard we're
going to get tonight into tomorrow. I suppose the 12"-15" doesn't
compare much to what some of you get regularly, but it is rather large
for what we usually get here.

Fortunately, it isn't going to occur on a work day, so the disruption
isn't going to be as bad as it might have been. What I find really
humorous is the run on supermarkets that occurs with the prediction. I
find it ludicrous that people seem to think that they have so little
food in their refrigerators, and that they might be stuck in for a DAY,

Garry James...

It's hard to believe, but some people really do have empty
refrigerators.

When I was in my early 20s, I visited an old friend at his house.
He had been married a couple of months and his wife was at work. We
shot the bull all morning and about lunch time he said that we should
run out for something to eat. I was enjoying myself and didn't
really want to go anywhere and suggested we just eat something out of
the fridge. I had in mind a bologna sandwich or something similar.
But he said he didn't have anything. I told him some leftovers would
be great. "No," he said "I mean there isn't *anything* in there".
He opened the fridge door and all that was in it was a half jar of
mustard. On the bottom shelf. I had never seen a refrigerator so
empty except in an appliance store. I have never forgotten that.

We went out and got a hamburger :-)

that they have to run and stock up as if there wasn't going to be any
more. It's also ludicrous that people also rush to fill their gas tanks
in their cars. I mean like where do they expect to drive in a blizzard?
Do they think that there won't be any gas deliveries the day AFTER the
snow?