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I did not go out to buy milk the last time we had 20 inches of snow because stores would be crowded and did not enjoy my coffee for two days
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Even here where we regularly get snow. If we get winter storm advisory, the shelves clear out.
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Having spent a few years in grocery it always amazed the rush when a storm was predicted and then the grumbling if it did not come about!
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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Well not here but have a forecast of a hurricane and stand back.
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Fred Griffin Florida R...
Tallahassee, FL
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Don't forget the toilet paper! VA/MD/DC have a run on these things when snow is forecast!!
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Mary Yonkers
Erie, PA
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There would be a rush for more than milk and bread if there was a forecast of snow in my area.
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Snow does not bother us at all, happens all the time and we try to be stocked up all the time too.
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Everyone does that here in Denver too, but usually because we are expecting a foot or two.
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If we ever get a forecast of snow, people will panic in Southwest Florida!
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Yes, people do run out to get bread and milk. I'm glad I know how to make things with flour - if I ever really DID run out of bread and needed some, I'd just make it.
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YES!! and Toilet paper and gas! I've never really understood the milk and bread.
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Michael J. Perry I think it's universal - not only PA and MA, not only US or Canada - it's all over the world!
They call - being prepared for worst thing to come!
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In CO the only thing we rush for is the slopes. Powder mornings are awesome.
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In Oklahoma City if a heavy snow winter warning comes, and that is rare, they clean out all the shelves as if they were afraid they would become the Donner Party.
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It's an IN thing too. Especially in the northern part of the state where we have Lake Effect snow from Lake Michigan.
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Michael, that happens here all the time. Yes, it snows here in Arizona believe it or not..it seems that right before a forecast the grocery stores are suddenly packed as if it's a holiday or something.
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I don't know. We haven't had a forecast for snow as long as I've been here. But, they go crazy down here for that and batteries, etc when hurricanes are coming.
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I do not know if it is a PA thing. We don't get forecasts of snow here in Sunny San Jose. But if I did, I would not be buying milk and bread ... neither are consumed by me.
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I know DE is a neighboring state, but when I lived in the Philadelphia are and in DE, milk & bread were hot commodities when the weather turned snowy.
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The couple friends I have who live in snowy areas out here tend to run to the market for stuff. Not sure what though.
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No worries about snow but in the event of the threat of other severe weather, yep we see it. And it happened back in New England with snow storms, too. Those snow shovels always disappeared quickly
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yes, the shelves are always bare the day before a predicted storm.... I think it's the result of what we went through with the blizzard of '78...people were shut in for days...could not get out of their homes... and if they did, the roadways had 4' of snow....they weren't going anywhere...
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Michael J. Perry That must be an eastern PA thing. The winter-ready western PA residents, especially the ones along Lake Erie don't panic until the forecast calls for two feet or more of snow.
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Some do. Even if they don't reaaly need anything, they have to get out on the road and get in the way of plowing, clearing, salting, etc.
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Everywhere due to unpredicbility.... If it was me, I will rush to the snack dept getting stocked with junk food....
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Florida is the same way.
They have all year to stock up on necessities. But they wait until the day before a Hurricane arrives to race to the stores, strip the shelves bare of bottled water, canned food, and flashlight batteries.