OT: Weather Freak Out
- Thread starter Harvard Gamecock
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I think you’ve taken and extra one or so for the team. I appreciate it!
If I absolutely had to have milk, I'd make some kind of powdered concoction using protein powder. It's tolerable.
Stay stocked up and you don't have to panic. Neither do you have to be victimized by profiteers.
Y'all have made it harder for me to drink milk that it was already. It was pretty nigh impossible already.
Never would knock a family meal but I think the grocery store raid is an indictment on the obesity epidemic in this country. I doubt they are out of fruits and vegetables.
Don't watch the agenda driven news. Stopped watching years ago. I'm looking forward to the snow. Did not see a single snowflake all last winter. Have not had decent snowfall in my area for about 10 yrs.
Ok for me, my Ridgeline truck has one that I have used for the refrigerator. I don’t have one big enough for the furnace.
You would let 5 gallons of milk go bad in an inoperable refrigerator when it's COLD outside? Do you have a garage?
USCBatgirl21
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I might could buy the idea of 5 gal of milk before a winter storm. Not before a hurricane. Never heard of anything like that.
USCBatgirl21
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I've been through 5 hurricanes, 2 were direct hits. What was noticeable to me was the disappearance of bagged ice before a hurricane. (And sheets of plywood) Everything disappears after a hurricane.
I have a spare gallon of milk for sale for $16. Better act fast because tomorrow it will be $28
I went shopping at the Ingles in Easley today — which is my regular shopping day. I drink only almond milk (lactose intolerant) and there was plenty of it. Regular milk seemed to be in good supply. The store clerks were stocking the shelves like normal. Everything except breads were in normal supply. Lines were long but the store was doing a great job restocking to meet demand. My only complaint is that the Palmetto Pimento Cheese had been wiped out. The forecast for Easley is 3 to 5 inches of snow beginning tomorrow so I had figured the store would already be wiped out of everything.
Same here, but last week I had to throw out a bottle of spaghetti sauce with a use by date of August 1999. 🤢🤮
Not a shock since I sometimes shop at Bargain Foods in Pelzer, home of distressed food.
If he drinks 4 a day that's only a 10 day supply. May or may not be hoarding depending on how many he has at home.
I'm very hesitant to search the very back of the bottom self. But fairly confident that everything in there is from this century.
Haha, I was not. And I was raised on nasty-ass powdered milk.
Doesn’t change the fact that drinking milk is weird…unless you are an infant or a newborn calf.
And now it's turning to just an ice/snow mix storm. Nothing like the last time it froze around here for 2 weeks. Weather forecasting has changed so much. They are making things worse sounding about every upcoming event. The weather will blow through quickly tomorrow and we'll all be working on Monday.
The thing about temperatures and freezing rain is you can have significant freezing rain accumulate at an official temperature report of 34 degrees. Reason being that official (airport) Temps are recorded at 6 feet above ground, cold air sinks so it can be 31 degrees on the ground with an official temp of 34 degrees. Called super cooling I believe. And since it's the actual temperature 20' above ground on limbs and power lines that causes power outages, an 8 hour event at 34 degrees can be very problematic. Time will tell I suppose.
USCBatgirl21
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I assume your parents did the best they could raising you but you can't compare the taste of powdered milk to regular milk. And drinking milk may be weird to you but not to many others.
My point is there is a large portion of the country that will still be working and going out if it’s nasty. That’s it.
Also just because it’s a federal holiday doesn’t mean a business has to pay for or offer you that holiday. A federal holiday just means the US government observes that holiday.
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Weather forecasters are so far off it’s pitiful. I’ve got to where I keep an eye on the radar and see what’s moving, then check behind the places the system has passed to see what’s in it. Works fairly well but not entirely accurate but beats the forecasters.
And, our crew will all be working outside tomorrow if nothing is falling.
I don't even use white milk on cereal, so I must be a racist. If I eat cereal, it's just dry, no milk.
