Weather reports in this day and age are amazing - and amazingly correct a lot of the time. I know everyone claims the weather man is the only guy (gal) who can be wrong most of the time and still get paid, but by and large they are mostly correct.
That being said I know that most who read this blog don't know about a new post until the day after I publish it. So since it's now "tomorrow" as you're reading this you should have been getting ready for our next predicted storm "yesterday".
I suspect that some are now immune to the reminders (call it nagging or whatever - you pick your own name for it) and turn a blind eye/ear to the concept of proactively staging your home and family in advance of oncoming bad weather.
But at the very least yesterday was the day to be preparing for today. The day that the storm is supposed to arrive. Really with the warning we get these days there is no excuse not to be ready days ahead of the storm's arrival.
And, remember, this isn't the end of the world (that's later) so you don't need 25 loaves of bread and 10 gallons of milk. You do need a vehicle that is gassed up and ready for whatever and a pantry (does anyone even have a pantry any more?) that contains at the very least 3 or 4 days worth of staples and meals.
Perhaps some things that if you lose power you could eat them without cooking.
But I can assure you that today (yesterday) would have been the day to lay in some supplies if you don't keep a stock.
The only thing wrong with the above picture is it lacks the other 100 folks also standing around staring at the empty shelves!
Okay, it might be a slight overstatement but the point I'm trying to make is that it doesn't take very long to suck all the food out of any grocery store. And a storm bad enough to disrupt deliveries would (notice I don't say "could") lead to the above situation is astonishingly short order.
If you don't want to be "that guy/gal" get ready for bad weather ahead of time. At the very least yesterday was the day.
PS If you did see this today then it's today and not yesterday to get ready.
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