Grocery Shopping

well i know what you mean but i guess it depends on where you live. we are in canada and a mere dusting of snow is nothing! people tend to be like that even here when a big snowfall is called for though.

Hi sleepylittlerose, I know. I work in a store and it gets crazy busy at any even slight prediction of snow. its just insane. When exactly was the last time any of us got snowed in enough that we could not make it to a store if we needed to? Beyond all that, don't most people keep some food and things on the shelf? I mean if we were to get suddenly snowed in, I do have enough in my cupboard that we would not go hungry. I almost always have extra gallons of water and a couple extra rolls of toilet paper. So in answer to your question, no, I don't go running out to the store when the weather forcasts snow. In fact, If i don't have to work, I use it as an excuse to stay in and get some things done around the house.

That's hilarious. However, just before Christmas we got surprised with almost 14 inches of snow. The first reports stated we'd get an inch or two. I think no one thought it would happen here! But it did and we were all surprised!

If I hear it is going to snow I will go and get my groceries but just what I have on my list. I do not get anymore than what I usually get for the week. I just go before the snow hits so I do not have to be on the road with some people who should not be driving in the snowy weather.

Where I live people get all crazy if they hear we're getting a dusting of snow.It's insane and it's hard to go shopping.I do not go to the store when I hear snow.Think about it if it wasn't going to snow they would not go raid the stores.It don't make sense.

That is the same thing in my town, if they hear we are having a big snow storm everyone is over crowding the store and you can't move in there it is crazy. all the food is like all gone, its kind of crazy actions if you ask me. the snow doesn't last forever. worst to come would be no lights that would suck. I hate it when the lights go out! have to wait till they figure out why its acting up or what has happened. gets on my nerves and the weather doesn't help at all :/

The reason many people do this even though a large amount of snow is not predicted is because predictions can be wrong and the last thing you want to do is to be housebound and to run out of something. When I lived in Maryland, I would make sure I had everything I needed even if the forecast was for an inch or two. Sometimes it turned out that I wasted my time but at other times, not. Now that I live in Florida I keep hurricane supplies on hand all year long and stock up on perishables and other things long before a big storm arrives because, down here, storms can change their track and, if power is knocked out, the stores without generators can't open.

It would make my day if we only got a dusting. It is really annoying how frantic people get about snow, especially out of towners. I'm used to it but it doesn't mean I like it.

There is so much snow here that people barely bat an eyelash to a little bit of snow. However, I have other places that are a bit more fanatical when just some snow appears. People go to the grocery store so fast, that you would think that nuclear war was going to break out tomorrow, instead of just a little snow. That is how panicked I have heard some people getting. We always have some items stocked up ahead of time, as when it snows, it snows.

No, I most definitly don't :-) But then we get quite a lot of snow, so it would mean quite a lot of stress. Pluss I have about 3 minutes to walk to a grocery store, so it would have to come more than half a meter, possibly even a meter, before I had problems with getting what I want. People here buy lots of fire wood and heating logs at the moment, it's supposed to be cold for some weeks so whenever there's a sale lot of people show up with the biggest car they can find.

Here in CHICAGO theres lots of snow people dont ussually go like crazy its kinda normal that theres lotsof snow..I really dont go crazy and go buy eggs lol..i keep it calm