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Panic buying at supermarkets as Britain braces itself for the big freeze....
Daily Mail ^ | Jan 5th, 2010 | James Tozer

Posted on 01/05/2010 7:19:02 PM PST by TaraP

Hot food and warm clothing were flying off supermarket shelves yesterday as shivering shoppers braced themselves for the deepening big freeze. Where roads were not already impassable with snow, buyers seized the chance to stock up on vital supplies to see them and their families through in case they end up trapped at home. And alongside the tinned soup, thermal underwear and bags of salt, there was a surprise best-seller - cat litter Following an article in the Daily Mail revealing how people are using it in place of grit to clear paths and driveways, demand has been soaring, with Asda reporting sales up by 55 per cent in just two days. However, those who have put cat litter to the test report that while it makes surfaces less slippery, it does little to help melt snow and ice, and can make a mess when trodden into floors and carpets. Bags of salt are also being snapped up, with sales of 1.5kg bags of cooking salt up five-fold at Morrisons and rock salt sales up 150 per cent at B&Q.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalcooling
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1 posted on 01/05/2010 7:19:02 PM PST by TaraP
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What about the perennial favorite in the American South when a hurricane threatens -- toilet paper!
2 posted on 01/05/2010 7:22:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Up to 16 inches of snow, grit and gas supplies running low, airport and road chaos but we'll cope ... at a push HEY! I wonder if these buses are still running?????? 'There's probably no God... now stop worrying and enjoy your life': Atheist group launches billboard campaign Richard Dawkins
3 posted on 01/05/2010 7:23:27 PM PST by TaraP (*GOD* made love so strong, so it would carry you all the way home.....)
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Al? Al?

Come to the door, Al. They want to eat talk to you outside.

4 posted on 01/05/2010 7:23:50 PM PST by stboz
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Pikers. Everybody knows to get the three B’s (bread, beer and batteries) here.


5 posted on 01/05/2010 7:23:50 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Global warming is such a bloody pain in the arse!


6 posted on 01/05/2010 7:25:31 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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7 posted on 01/05/2010 7:26:31 PM PST by TaraP (*GOD* made love so strong, so it would carry you all the way home.....)
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To: TaraP; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
 



Beam Me to Planet Gore !

8 posted on 01/05/2010 7:27:03 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
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WHAT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING?
9 posted on 01/05/2010 7:30:04 PM PST by TaraP (*GOD* made love so strong, so it would carry you all the way home.....)
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TEOTWAWKI

Perhaps Al Gore should do a 180 and start complaining about global cooling instead.


10 posted on 01/05/2010 7:32:02 PM PST by Eye of Unk (Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
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To: RegulatorCountry

For those of us who lost cable tv and internet, we are now satellite and wireless. Smokers need to stock up too.


11 posted on 01/05/2010 7:33:14 PM PST by Gnat Masterson
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What about the perennial favorite in the American South when a hurricane threatens -- toilet paper!

Where I'm from, I was always taught bread and milk, bread and milk!

Don't really know why...

12 posted on 01/05/2010 7:36:25 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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I just know what gets wiped out with even a prediction of accumulation here. Bread is decimated. So is beer. And, so are batteries, particularly if it’s an ice storm that is forecast.

Sure, there are other things. Milk, toilet paper, cigarettes for smokers. But the 3 B’s are what makes the evening news, with bare shelves.


13 posted on 01/05/2010 7:38:23 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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“However, those who have put cat litter to the test report that while it makes surfaces less slippery, it does little to help melt snow and ice, and can make a mess when trodden into floors and carpets.”

Well, duh! LOL!


14 posted on 01/05/2010 7:39:44 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Forget bread and milk; I get pizza and beer!


15 posted on 01/05/2010 7:40:14 PM PST by henkster (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: John-Irish
God does have a sense of humor. He is just humbling all those idiots who think man can destroy GODS world.
16 posted on 01/05/2010 7:40:30 PM PST by annieokie
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Wonder if they’ll resort to cannibalism soon?

16 inches snow and 6 degrees Fahrenheit in Colorado is kind of par for the course here. Schools would probably close for a day while the roads were plowed. Everyone would be enchanted and comment about how pretty it is. By the next day, things would be back mostly to normal, except for a major exodus up to the high mountain ski slopes for all that heavenly fresh powder. No one would bother to make any extra trips to the stores, except maybe to get some more of those little marshmallows and hot chocolate mix if you were low and the kids were staying home from school more than a day.


17 posted on 01/05/2010 7:45:35 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
What about the perennial favorite in the American South when a hurricane threatens -- toilet paper!

Where I'm from, I was always taught bread and milk, bread and milk!

I think I'll stick with toilet paper. To each his own though, I guess. :)

18 posted on 01/05/2010 7:46:58 PM PST by Wissa ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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Now THIS is a big freeze. From Alaska last winter.

I can understand however how the lemmings who have been brainwashed by the Big Green Governments of the Planet can start panicking when they discover that those governments have been just telling lies to fill their coffers. It will be panic city.

19 posted on 01/05/2010 7:52:38 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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A couple of comments:

So much of the global warming fraud has come out of the UK, that in a way I get a kick out of them freezing their *sses off. I'd like to see this pattern continue until March over there. On the other hand a lot of innocent people are being hurt by this. There are many Brits who think the whole Global Warming thing is a fraud as well. Lord Monckton is probably the most articulate skeptic on the global warming fraud.

The other thing I've noticed is that those who are preaching global warming haven't budged an inch. They have dug in their heels and insist that this is just an anomaly and that the earth is still warming and that we are causing it. They play a different tune when a heat wave comes along. Of course that IS global warming to them. And they believe this despite the fact it's been cooling since 2002. Nothing will make these people change their minds. If glaciers started descending across Scotland or Canada in North America, they would still insist that global warming is happening. To these people it's a religion. They are hopeless.
20 posted on 01/05/2010 7:54:31 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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