| Author | Message | ||
     Jdbuellx1 |
I have always wondered why when the weather man calls for snow everyone rushes to the grocery store and buys all of the bread, milk and eggs! The wife just got back from the store to get hot dog and hamburger rolls for our daughters 2nd birthday party and she said there was NONE! No bread, no milk, no eggs. I have never understood this phenomenon of the disappearance of bread and dairy products before a snowstorm. Maybe bread and milk mysteriously go bad before a storm? I just make sure I've got Mt. Dew and smokes and I'm good to go. | ||
| Mikej |
Bread: short shelf life. Buy an extra loaf and stuff it in the freezer. Milk: semi-short shelf life. Versatile product. Drink it, cook with it, mix it into baked items, and if it goes bad just make cheese (though most people (like me) just chuck it out when it starts to go bad). Eggs: unknown shelf life. What with polishing and painting nobody really knows for sure what the shelf life of an egg is. But everyone who has smelled a bad one knows that they do go bad at some point. So, if you have eggs in the fridge or cupboard, and if you don't remember when you bought them, just go buy more. Probably a little more versatile than milk due to the fact that if you get snowed in you can pierce the ends of the shells, blow out the innards, and use the now-empty shell as a paintable decoration. Something to do while snowed in. Look at any potentially serious situation, people will buy out the perishables first, then the canned heat-n-serve foods, then the some-prep-required foods, then the staples such as flour and rice and beans after that and when the rest of the shelves are already empty. Look in the cupboards of anyone who has served in the military or is older than about 45 and you'll probably find at least one bag of dry beans and probably a packet of yeast and some bullion cubes.  | ||
| Newfie_Buell |
Bread & Milk don't get a chance to go bad in my house. We usually go through about a loaf every day and roughly one gallon of milk as well. Up here when a storm hits you can still get all this stuff at the corner shops and its kind of an adventure to dress up in all your winter clothing (looking like the tire guy) and treking to the shop for essential supplies. | ||
| Jdbuellx1 |
Well, I guess I take for granted that I only live about a mile from the store, but, after snowing for about 24 hrs or so the state has about everything cleared off so far, and it was a good storm, at least 28 or more inches here, most I've seen for about 10 years. Lots of fun playing taxi in the Scooby (after all of the hard work getting it out).   | ||
| Jdbuellx1 |
Add about six to eight inches to whats on the cars in the pic cause I cleaned them off last night! | ||
| Jim_Witt |
Freaking amazing, I've never lived in a climate that snows. Looks pretty cool to me but I don't think I could handle it. -JW:> | ||
| Newfie_Buell |
Looks like my place two weeks ago, Luckily we have not had much since but more will come before the temp starts to rise again.  My two middle boys (ages 7&5)standing on the front steps of the house. Some others:     I guess we have to just grin & bear it. |
