Why do people panic buy bread when it snows

Back then girls were not allowed to wear trousers so if you had tights on you just had wet legs all morning till they dried..

There are 4ft snow drifts here and roads totally blocked that not even the farmers are able to clear, people stuck having to be towed out or abandon their cars. Schools have rightly closed. They don’t close here often and definitely not at a light dusting of snow!

I was 12 in the 62/63 winter, snow was as high as me,we went to school.. I've seen periods of heavy snow since. In 1986, I drove across country with drifts of over 2 MTS I was nursing, I knew they would be shorted staffed. It took me a couple of hours to drive 12 miles. People who lived 2 miles away, didn't attempt to walk in. I think it was 2012, it snowed, I had a 50 mile drive to the hospital, I used major roads, motorways. Used to have to dig the car out after a shift. I do have a larder, plenty of provisions. Perhaps it's like COVID,bread, then toilet rolls!

That sounds bloody miserable, i remember going to school in deep snow in the 70s, it didnt make me any hardier i just remember being cold and wet.

Op is there a bread&,soup shortage i mean you have to go out at some point to actually stock up your plentiful store cupboard,or does the shopping faries bring it ? I went out to do my monthly shop yesterday it might have looked like i was stock piling bread.

To make sandwiches if the power goes off, who wants a crumpet sandwich.
i haven’t seen panic buying where I live but the bread shelves have been bare as deliveries aren’t getting through due to snow road closures

Do they ? Our schools are open today and there is some snow, whereas schools further up the country have heavier snow and their schools have quite rightly have closed.

Do you normally exaggerate for dramatic effect ?

If you have food in for a month why does it bother you what people buy? Maybe they want to be able to have bread and soup if they can’t get out? Maybe they don’t have space to store the same volume of food you do?

Well not quite everyone else has to drive in.

Welcome to the real world teachers! Everyone else has to drive to work in it.

Because soup and crumpets are a comforting and quick hot meal on a cold day

Is that in the UK ? Must be unusual, trying to organise with lots of unknowns I can't see how it would work particularly well.

There is advice today in one of the papers, to get in bottled water, foods in packets (which can keep without a fridge), a mobile power bank, torches and blankets in case of an imminent snowstorm and power cuts.

While that may be more applicable to the West coast of Scotland than the SE, I believe that’s been Europe wide advice anyway, in case of an attack by Russia.

YABU - bread doesn’t need a fridge and lots of people would make sandwiches for a few days, without power?

I’ve not seen any panic buying in our very snowy town, but obviously when people can’t get out to other shops and deliveries can’t be made, even small changes of behaviour can rapidly clear shelves. We saw during Covid that supermarkets run a very lean model to minimise waste, so it doesn’t take panic buying to disrupt the stock levels, just slightly changed behaviour across a lot of people.

The shelves are getting bare but no one is walking out with armfuls of bread or anything like that here. I usually get a supermarket delivery but they can’t get to us so I have to buy what I would there at the smaller local shop, along with everyone else. Deliveries to the shop are also disrupted.

Well, if you experienced London during snowfall you will be familiar with the traffic and complete collapse of the public transport. I once spent over two hours on a bus getting to work. A journey which typically takes 25 minutes. I don't expect people who live further out to spend half the night on busses getting in. Private sector so actually none of the clients showed up for the same reason. Could have all taken a day off (and those of us who did make it were sent home as, luckily, my boss is a reasonable human). And before you accuse me of having no grit, I grew up in a country which sees snowfalls every year from late December to late April. And yet, the first snow often puts the city in chaos despite everyone switching to winter tires by the end of October. So it's not unusual even there to cancel plans and appointments on the day of a first snow. Although, we do then manage to get our shit together for the rest of winter.

I assume it must be done differently in different areas but here, if the weather is bad enough, the teachers go to their local school rather than the school where they normally teach.

Panic buying may be because of the fear you won't be able to get out easily in a day or two. Weather forecasts seem more accurate than say 30 years ago, but are never 100% trusted.

As for the closing of schools, I expect part of it is because of the fear of being sued. I have long argued that there should be law that defines certain things as genuinely being accidental and for which no one can claim any compensation.

This is v true. Some never miss an opportunity to teacher bash.

The trouble is, having had decades of warm winters, no one knows how to drive in snow anymore, during the 60s and 70s we all went to school and work and just got on with it, we had to walk through a park to get our school bus, with snow coming over our wellies.

😂😂

10/10 rage bait.

I wouldn’t say it’s pathetic. Most teachers live a decent distance away from their schools and aren’t always able to get there.

I recall my DC's primary closing 25 years ago due to less than an inch of snow. London Borough. It was utterly pathetic and did nothing to engender in the children any grit or commitment to get to work - a dreadful example and very few teachers lived a distance away. Most parents were expected to get to work - there was no cognizance of that.

A couple of senior teachers lived a 40 minite drive away. AFAIAC those senior teachers needed to make arrangements to get themselves to work: overnight at an hotel, park on the closest gritted road and get some snow boots, get a blow up bed and camp out at school.

Funnily enough when the DC transferred to the independent sector, the only time their schools closed was in 2010 when there were significant snowfalls.

It's an ethos that explains GenZ more than parental actions.

Schools shut because staff can’t get in, or buses won’t run to get the kids in, or the site can’t be made safe. Gone are the days when we all made icy slides on the playground and hurled snowballs at each other, parents now will cheerfully go nuclear if their child falls over on an ungritted path. Not all parents, by any means, but the sweary, shouty ones who think schools are trying to kill their children and ruin their lives (there are a surprisingly high number of these).

Do they? Where is the evidence?
We have light snow here and all schools fully open.