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On Saturday, every gas station in Buzzards Bay had cars lined up 5 deep at the pumps. Most of those cars spent the rest of Saturday and all day yesterday sitting in driveways. The emergency preparedness manuals tell you to fill your gas tank, but that's for people who may be on the roads during the storm, and who may get stranded and run their heater. Even so, at idle, you burn less than a gallon per hour. But everyone still flocks to the pumps because 'the book says so".
People who hardly ever drink milk buy two extra gallons. Half of it probably goes bad before it gets used.
Most people have enough dry and canned food on hand to survive weeks. We must have at least 10 packages of pasta in the shelves. I have half a peck of quahogs in the basement.
We have 20 pounds of flour in the house if we have a cup--you can bake better bread than you can buy.
Most gas stoves don't need power to be lighted--you can light most burners and ovens with a match. Even if they can't be, most people have gas grills.
Water? Your toilet tank holds enough to keep you alive until they get the power back on, if your water supply requires electrical power.
People who live in places where they get real snow laugh their asses off at southern New Englanders and NY/NJ people who flock to stores like lemmings just because some talking head on the news tells them to buy extra milk and bread, and fill their gas tanks.
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