Why do we flood supermarkets when it snows?

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 | Jim Tynen

[mewzilla]

It's Pavlovian.

[Elsie]

</h1>'Cause you ain't MORMON!!!</h1>

[conserv13]

Here in Baltimore it is the same. Everyone buys toilet paper, bread, milk and eggs. I guess they like toilet paper sandwiches and toilet paper omelettes and french toast.

[Hatteras]

There ain't no sutherners in Northern Virginia. They're all relocated Yankees or dang furiners.

[xsmommy]

well there are plenty of those two, but you got your good ole boys tucked away here and there too... ; )

[Willie Green]

"bitzle" is a piece of dirt on the floor.
(Hey yinz kids better pick up 'em bitzles yinz left on da floor.)
Therefore bitzley = dirty.
Kinda like dingleberries, I s'pose, although it could be anything ya accidently sat in.

[Hatteras]

I was working for a few years in Maryland. We had a boss who hailed from Montreal. As winter approached and we began looking forward to snow days. He would look at us and sneer. He would boast about how they never call off work for snow because Canadians knew how to drive in snow. We were just a bunch of wimpy southerners who didn't know what real snow was... and all the usual northern superiority bull crap.

Do you want to guess who ran off the road less than a mile from the entrance to the parking lot and had to hoof it in to work and ask for help getting his car out of a ditch? Of course, needless to say, what came next was that it was all because of how they build those stupid roads in the south! They don't know how to build roads down south, those idiots! Yeah, THAT'S the ticket!....

Just watch the evening news whenever the first snows of the season hit in North Dakota or Colorado or Upstate New York. The first thing they show is cars all sliding sideways, jack-knifed tractor trailers, etc... Hey, talk to the hand...

[xsmommy]

well i can't really say much, bc although i am from Pittsburgh, i was not permitted anywhere on the road when there was a snowflake forecast! my father would never allow it. I do ok here though, and i swear the people in the DC suburbs are almost worse about RAIN than they are about snow!

[Space Wrangler]

Here in the foothills of the TN Appalachians, if snow is even vaguely mentioned in the forecast, all grocery stores are emptied of bread, milk, eggs, and other staple products. And you ought to go check out the lines and the people with absolute panic on their faces. The threat of a dusting is all it takes. I could sit here and try to claim it is fallout from the Blizzard of '93 (which actually was pretty bad in that we got more than 2-3 FEET of snow--something we are nowhere near capable of dealing with), but in truth it's ALWAYS been that way. Personally, I still have most of my Y2K preperations still available (generator, propane heaters and stove, etc), and I don't get too worried. The wife and I both have 4WD, and it's just not that big of a worry. We always joke that the local weathermen and the grocery stores have an 'arrangement' where they trot out a snow prediction several times a year and get a kickback from the increased sales they generate! I can see the mtns from my front porch, and they are covered with snow today though, with a wintery mix in the forecast for tomorrow, so watch out grocery shoppers!

[shhrubbery!]

Same reason people flock to get flu shots only after it's been announced there's a shortage.

[fight_truth_decay]

Why do we flood supermarkets when it snows?

Why do SOME flood supermarkets when it snows..I don't. Plus the word flood and the word snow just do not seem to go together.

Don't mind me as I cracked my head on the ice today so am on the testy side.

Regards,
Fight.........

[Indie]

Hmm..I buy almost everything online and have it delivered now.
I think the main reason people engage in stocking up is just for comfort reasons, not because they are afraid of something really. Goes back to childhood. It's just a feel good kind of thing. Quite innocent really.

[FreeReign]

Why do we flood supermarkets when it snows?

Because we don't like food shopping when it's sunny?

[Sacajaweau]

Ah, youth! There was a great storm in the sixties. I was determined to be a hero. I put on my husband's hip boots which went up to my neck and walked to the dairy 2 miles away to get milk for my 1 year old and 3 year old. It took days to recuperate.

If I had to do it again, water (even melted snow) would do for a couple of days. Live and learn!!