I once heard a radio story about how Halifax residents always go out and buy potato chips before a snow storm. Apparently storm chips fly off the shelves in the hours leading up to a blizzard.
We had a typhoon warning one Friday morning in October. The school was cancelled and we were allowed to go home as soon as all of the kids had been picked up- about 9 am. as it turned out.
They were predicting days of total chaos, so it everyone stopped to shop on the way home. It seems that everyone had a different idea of what constituted emergency preparedness. I work with dudes who slugged liters of Coke back to their apartments. A few of my co-workers who refuse to cook carried stacks of take-out meals from from local restaurants to heat up. I hit the corner store and the fruit stand and dragged this lot home.
We had a typhoon warning one Friday morning in October. The school was cancelled and we were allowed to go home as soon as all of the kids had been picked up- about 9 am. as it turned out.
They were predicting days of total chaos, so it everyone stopped to shop on the way home. It seems that everyone had a different idea of what constituted emergency preparedness. I work with dudes who slugged liters of Coke back to their apartments. A few of my co-workers who refuse to cook carried stacks of take-out meals from from local restaurants to heat up. I hit the corner store and the fruit stand and dragged this lot home.
Dried soy beans, snacking seaweed, milk, ramen, potato chips, yogurt drink, chips, a chocolate bar, cucumber, some form of green leaf(?) a red onion, celery and a few potatoes.
I also filled as many containers as I could find with water to flush my toilet. I have learned the hard way that the water doesn't work when the power goes off. People thought that was weird???
The chips and chocolate bar were gone before 2 pm when it was officially announced that the storm had changed direction and wouldn't hit the city after all. Oooops.
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