Comments on: Self Sufficient

By: mary

mary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:44:07 +0000

were the eggs all gone too? I have no idea why, but when it snows everyone has to rush out and get bread, milk and eggs. They get a burning desire to make French Toast I guess. LOL

By: DD

DD — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:17:40 +0000

My local Giant was the same, but even vegetables were barely available. I am thinking of trying again in about an hour. We have been doing well. I hate to think about the people who have lost power in all of this mess. BTW I live in Waldorf, MD. Southern MD

By: Laura Georgina

Laura Georgina — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:34:16 +0000

This happens here too! It’s so disconcerting to see no eggs, or no chicken, etc… It’ll pass soon, I promise, and then the snow will disappear, the cereal will be back, and it will all make for great Survivor stories. PS-a bit of rum helps with the shoveling:-)

By: amber

amber — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:55:16 +0000

Crazyness!! I’ve never seen anything like that! Try to stay warm this week.

By: Jacqui m.

Jacqui m. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:53:14 +0000

I feel your pain. I live in the laurel which is not that far from you. My husband and myself put in 5 hours of shoveling the drive way and the deck that wraps around the house. My body had turned against me, it was not my friend after that. Laugh. My neighborhood shoppers wasn’t that bad. I will say that everyone in Laurel must be eating beef for the next couple of days because I could not find beef anything to save my life. Laugh

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:47:16 +0000

Those pictures scare me on two levels. The most obvious is the tragic state of the average American diet. The stats say 1 in 3 born after 2000 will be diabetic. And secondly, it scares me to think that we are not very prepared to survive a large scale disaster when a snow storm empties the grocery shelves.

By: Ms M

Ms M — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:28:50 +0000

OMG! It makes me want to go grocery shopping, in appreciation for our stocked shelves.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:04:26 +0000

I am south of you in VA. I went to the grocery store last Wednesday night thinking I was going to get there ahead of all the other folks. Boy was I wrong! There was no whole milk left at that time — NONE! In our house, we go through an entire gallon of whole milk each day. There was no bread, very little meat, no fresh fruit, etc. It was unreal – just like in your pictures! (We only have one grocery store in our town.) The next day the boys and I had to stop by another grocer store in a nearby city to find milk. They were down to their last few gallons of whole milk. We got a hodge podge of brands, but we did get five gallons. Now it is snowing again . . .

By: Towanda

Towanda — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:55:32 +0000

I sent DH to Superfresh this morning and he was happy that I had a short list while I was at work. He did have to go to Giant to get bread. They didn’t have any shoppping carts or hand baskets. This would be a good time to have stock in Giant.

He got stuck coming home because some fool got stuck and abandoned his car on a one way street. It took 4 hours, 5 people and 40 bucks for him to get his truck out. People are working together to dig themselves out. After work, we had to back up down our street to get home. Such is life in Baltimore with our little one way streets.

I laughed when I read about the guy with the black and mild. It is amazing how enterprising some people can be.

I recommend Aleeve or Excedrin for pain relief and the thermal heat wraps.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:16:30 +0000

For your wrists:

If you have a CVS near you, they have flexible ice packs with velcro strips attached designed for wrists. They last about half an hour at a time. I love them (I have the wrist, knee, and back ones–at home *and* work).

Aleeve works better for me than ibuprofen–if you haven’t tried it…try it.

You can try icy/hot patches too. For me they tend to stay icy, which is a nice feeling.

Mainly you need to let your wrists rest now. No shoveling, no matter how much pressure you feel from your neighbors.

By: Mardel

Mardel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:44:03 +0000

Well, a snow storm of that size usually happens at least once a year here and often more than once, but we’ve had zip. I’d gladly take it from you. It has been many many years since we had so much snow that they couldn’t get it cleared and the delivery trucks couldn’t get to the stores but when it happened, that is what they looked like. Sorry you are getting another storm. I wish it was me, I miss the snow.

Even here though, when snow is exepected the hordes hit the stores. What is do you think disappears? Beer, chips, cookies, cereal and milk. I knew you wanted to know that.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:08:56 +0000

Wow, this reminds me of Eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall fell. In Bulgaria we had couple of years with groceries looking like that.

By: MelissaB

MelissaB — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:12:40 +0000

That is insane! I’m soooo glad it’s sunny and beautiful in SW Washington today (tho the rain will be back very soon I’m sure).

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:44:15 +0000

Wow, can’t even imagine it. Hopefully the weather will warm up a bit soon! Meanwhile, I’m sweltering here and would give anything (well almost) to have a good night’s sleep without tossing and turning from the heat.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:27:25 +0000

I have a phone pic of the potato/onion isle from last Friday in Arlington at Harris Teeter (goofy name, nice store). Not.one.potato. Not even a yam. The closest thing to chicken was some turkey sausage. Zero milk (that actually came from a mammal. You can’t milk a soy bean, stop calling it milk. It’s JUICE!). I did find some bread and yogurt. And free-range brown eggs that I bought and some pasturzied Kosher eggs that I left because I couldn’t tell if they were cooked or not. And beets, lots of beets. Guess people won’t eat those even in a blizzard. Fortunately, I still have some of this stuff as here it comes again. I’m movin’ to Buffalo. The weather’s nicer.