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On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 3:01:05 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/11/2019 1:34 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
> > People panicked here in the Seattle area last Thursday, as evidenced
> > by my local Fred Meyer being completely out of shopping carts when I
> > arrived around 6pm to pick up a few things. I had done my major shopping
> > the day before and as always I managed to forget something. I soon found
> > where all the shopping carts had gone - they were manned by restive
> > customers standing in lines 20 deep, going halfway up the aisles. I
> > must say things were pretty calm despite the gridlock and lack of
> > essentials like bread and bananas. Fortunately I had "about 12 items"
> > and the express lane lines were more reasonable.

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> When I lived in Philadelphia, that was common. In New England, no big
> deal. People were batter at driving in snow and the highway crews are
> better equipped to deal with it. In all my years in CT, if I could get
> out my driveway I could get to the store.


Same here in Michigan. What do you call 8" of snow? Tuesday.

Cindy Hamilton