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Sep. 15th, 2003 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaWe went shopping for hurricane supplies this evening. I still wasn't sure how much would be overkill, so I made my basic criterion "will I be embarrassed if I buy this and then the storm misses us?"
We bought: bottled water, a second flashlight, flashlight batteries, batteries for my Walkman (it has a radio), crackers, sharp cheddar cheese, peanut butter with preservatives so it doesn't need refrigeration, juice, canned fruit, canned soup, canned fish, candles, chocolate, and roasted peanuts. This we added to our stock of hurricane-appropriate supplies already in the cupboard, which includes more candles, more canned fruit and soup, dried fruit, canned beans, chips, cereal, breakfast bars, crackers, fresh vegetables, bleach, masking tape, the first flashlight, and plastic bags.
So of course we came home and found that Isabel had already been downgraded to a Cat 3.
Yay, first criterion! I am ashamed of buying nothing.
We bought: bottled water, a second flashlight, flashlight batteries, batteries for my Walkman (it has a radio), crackers, sharp cheddar cheese, peanut butter with preservatives so it doesn't need refrigeration, juice, canned fruit, canned soup, canned fish, candles, chocolate, and roasted peanuts. This we added to our stock of hurricane-appropriate supplies already in the cupboard, which includes more candles, more canned fruit and soup, dried fruit, canned beans, chips, cereal, breakfast bars, crackers, fresh vegetables, bleach, masking tape, the first flashlight, and plastic bags.
So of course we came home and found that Isabel had already been downgraded to a Cat 3.
Yay, first criterion! I am ashamed of buying nothing.
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Date: 2003-09-15 05:51 pm (UTC)Please, please teach it to the fools to your southwest a ways who seem to be of the opinion that a snowflake sighting within fifty miles demands that they buy all the milk and bread and stockpile it. ;)
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Date: 2003-09-15 06:14 pm (UTC)I was trying to explain this phenomena to my Mom, but she just didn't get it...
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Date: 2003-09-17 09:35 pm (UTC)