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It's just too funny at the grocerystores around here when the weather is expected to turn bad. I mean, they shop like they are going to be snowed in for a week. Nobody in Oklahoma has ever been snowed in for a week! Bread-o-Meter! ha ha.

Sherry

One of local grocery stores around here is called Schnucks and whenever we are expecting a snow/ice storm one of the local radio stations plays a siren and declares that the Schnucks panic aisle is open.

What is a "Bread-o-meter"????

People around here do the same thing. Saturday was clear and cold. the calm before the Lake Effect Storm coming. The Xmas shoppers were out in full force, as well as clogging all the isles in the super market. and we DO get snowed in for weeks at a time here. i try to get everything done and get home so i can get snowed in!! Alas....my snowblower wont break down anytime soon, so i have to go to work anyways! i really dont like mondays.

amy in CNY

Snow day for the kidlets here. Everything else was open though.

With DD3 home all day, there was no excuse for the driveway and the sidewalk to go unshoveled! (VBEG) Of course it started snowing again while she was in progress. I pointed out that it was less she has to do later. I also somewhat forcefully pointed out that she gets paid for it, and she gets free cocoa. No shoveling=no money, this inspired her.

We are due and overdue for a raging blizzard. The way some folks have been talking, if we don't get one soon we can nearly expect a glacier to come waltzing through. Like the snow gods save up to dump on us or something. I am happy with due and overdue, it can keep being that for the next half century for all of me. Not needing to go out and poke snowdrifts with sticks to find cars is a _good_ thing.

NightMist

It's a thing that measures how much snow we will have, the weather man on channel 9 in DC invented it. When ever there is going to be a storm people around here "panic", run to the grocery store and buy bread, milk, and toilet paper, the more bread they buy the worse the storm is supposed to be, sooooo, Topper Schutt uses this thermometer like "bread-o-meter" to indicate how bad he expects the storm will be.

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA

That is too funny! but i've seen people here in CNY do the same. People get that "crazed" look in their eyes and buy up all the basics. Bottled water. Batteries, Milk, Bread, Rock Salt, candles, chocolate. All the essentials. I, too, believe we here in NY are in for a blizzard. i hope it happens over the holidays. i'm off from the 21st to the 26th. i could get so much done!! amy in CNY

Another scale to judge is the French Toad method:

I WANT A T-SHIRT!!! that is toooo funny >

amy in CNY

I kept looking for the toad! :)

Thank you all for the posts on severe weather. I love living in a place where we gripe endlessly if the temp is below 50 or if we have a 1/2" of rain in a day. Total snowfall here in my life is < 1/4". *evil grin*

It's been raining off and on for a couple of days. I live by the airport and we've had 0.2" out there, but other areas have had a half inch, with gusts up to 25 mph. So yeah, I'm hearing a LOT of whining about this "bad storm". LOL

Until they get our levies fixed, I'm just as happy to be a bit on the dry side this year. My house is 19' above sea level -- I'd like it to stay above the water line, thank you.

Well, if I make a typo, usually no one notices! Good catch, bet there won't be Toads in Boston weather this week. Supposed to be toast of course.

I live in Florida where we also complain about temps and HUMIDITY.

Sure don't miss the snow shoveling though. Anna Belle in Palm Bay