Here in Missouri we have the French Toast forecast. Milk, eggs and bread. If they add beer it it we know we are in for trouble.
My wife spent life as a very young child at Fort Leonard Wood.
She remembers they got an inch or two of snow once and the world stopped.
” French Toast forecast”
Here in the D.C. area, they stock up on toilet paper!
We are new to Missouri.. thanks for the tip.
Lived in St Louis exurbia for a half-dozen years. They develop a serious case of stupid when they get an inch or two of snow/ice. The city where we lived didn't even have a snow plow but sent a truck up and down the suburban streets with two dudes in the back pitchin' cinders with shovels. It always melted in a day or two but the drivers were all goofy until it did.
I grew up in the Upper Midwest (WAAYYYY up north) and I remember one week in high school when it got down to -20 to -30F and stayed that way for a week. The power went out for a few days but there was enough water in the pressure tank for drinking/cooking and you went outside to fetch a bucket of snow and ice to melt on the wood stove to flush the toilet. There was plenty of fish and venison in the chest freezer (you only opened it once and be quick about it) to hold us over. Skillet cornbread on the wood stove and green beans and carrots you canned the previous summer.
People are so soft these days.
I go for the canned meat. Got a great Sterno stove just in case we lose power.
Here in AL, we have your first 3 plus bathroom paper! My daughter and her family lived in Seattle for many years. She said the drivers up there are as bad as the ones here when it snows or when there are icy streets.