People panicking because of snow

[Cuffi]

When snow is forecasted in the weather, people go mad, panic buy.

If you are planning to stay at home regardless of the weather, you are not going to eat more as it’s snowing! Maybe 2-4 extra cups of tea or coffee? It doesn’t warrant the need to clear the shelves of tinned soups and UHT milk!

Besides where I live the snow would be melted by mid Sunday and temps are going up to 9c.

These people need to look at themselves as they look soft

You do realise that some of us have to leave the house to go to work at weekends?

I bought extra milk Thursday because ds only drinks milk and we were due to run out Saturday anyway and if we are getting snow/ice etc I don't want to drive in it I'm keeping off the roads people are already bad driving last week was unprecedented one overturned car one rammed car (road rage) one car smashed to smithereens several wing mirrors gone all in one day on my roadworks group (we report accidents and delays too) so while I was in the shop I bought milk I'm pretty sure ds will get through them before Monday (normal shop day) anyway so 🤷‍♀️

I went to Aldi this evening to do my normal shop as we'd been away. The place was decimated.
We are coastal as well so the likelihood of any situation snow is low

It is 3rd January. Many people are running low after not going to the shop since before Hogmany so it is not just about snow.

I put up my hand, I did buy an extra bottle of wine. Guilty as charged!

For up to 10 days after Christmas and New Year, you see gaps on shelves as there's a break in the supply chain - ie production plant or factory closed early or have fewer staff - less supply created.

If it takes 3 days from production plant to supermarket, you notice the break 3 days later.

I went to the supermarket carpark at seven tonight to put air in my tyres and it was like Christmas Eve. Manic.

I think you should just consider how worrying it is for some folks to get by without essentials even for a day or two. Difficulty getting to shops can be a very serious disadvantage. It can cause real hardship.

That’s why I trudged out this evening to get necessaries: gin, tonic and a bag of lemons. I’m ok for ice.

I haven’t been to the shops for a while. Dh went this afternoon as we’d just got home from a week away and we had no food, delivery was due this evening. He didn’t report anything unusual but then we never bloody well get any snow so I guess it’s location dependent. I wouldn’t begrudge anyone being prepared if they live somewhere where deliveries struggle in bad weather, imagine having small kids and no milk!

I have bread flour and yeast so as long as we have electricity, we can have some extra bread.
I have lots of rice and pasta too so we won't starve. Plus Dd got excited at a giant jar of nutella in Lidl and made me buy that so we're good for at least 6 months.

Of course loads of people will be going out to work regardless (myself included). But lots will work from home, be retired, whatever.

Sounds like we're back in then olden days, 'You're a panic buyer/hoarder' whereas 'I am taking precautions'.

Its only a few days snow.

Remember covid and when you couldnt get your hands on flour or loo roll for love nor money!

I'm ready for the snow as I've got 6 boxes of crackers and eleventy billion packs of Christmas cheese leftover! 😀 bread and milk isn't important as cheese!

Where do you live? Lapland?
Santa.....is that you??

Speaking from Scotland where, depending on where you are, snow is commonplace, Ive always thought English people massively overreact to snow.

Milk - tea/coffee, children have a glass now and then. Breakfast cereal. Cooking/baking.

Bread - toast in morning or sandwiches/soup accompaniment at lunch.

You're eating Nutella wrong if that jar is going to last 6 months.
Should last one week. Tops.

@Peaceandquietandacuppa I meant that if I didn't have bread and milk for a few days I could happily survive without it.
If I was going to be snowed in there's other stuff I would prioritise first.

Today the amount of people who came to the till who said ‘I can’t believe there’s so many people here today!’ Thing was- they were there too! (We also ran out of bread and milk!)

We had snow not long ago and survived, it didn't last long. I can anticipate everyone saying, "Keep warm", "Take care", "Be safe", after every post now and for weeks. It's perfectly obvious we are all going to do our best to achieve that. We can also order groceries online :).

I was planning to get the bread maker out tomorrow anyway. I use UHT milk all the time and keep a tin of dried milk in the cupboard so should be ok. It hadn't occurred to me people would be panic buying due to predicted snow.

I agree 100% OP. I can't believe the panic, the weather warnings on TV, the instructions to put on a pullover!

When I lived in the far north of Scandinavia, January-February was blizzard season. And it was mostly dark as well.
No-one batted an eyelid, children managed to get to school and everyone worked normally. The ice crystals would be smashing against the window panes all night, blizzards would sometimes take three days to pass. Everyone still went outside - they wore thick clothes although admittedly, all vehicles had snow tyres fitted.

I do find it bonkers that the BBC news is in a panic about 20cm snow forecast. Try snow so deep you have to dig your way out of the front door. And temperatures plummeting to -25 degrees; in fact, if it warmed up to -10 we thought it was getting a bit hot.

Amazingly, out there the wooden houses (which looked so frail) were warmer than the average UK home and were constructed so there were no draughts. All heating was by little electric wall heaters, but it was toasty warm and we never had any power cuts; despite the howling gales the wires (strung along wooden structures amongst the pine forests) never seemed to get blown down either.

I do think the UK could learn a lot from our northern neighbours.

When snow is rare then there is no point spending money on snow tires, lots of gritters/snow ploughs etc. so on the very rare occasions (often years apart) there is snow it will hit harder than areas that have it every year and spend money accordingly. I doubt many people in Kent own a snow shovel or a sledge.

so overnight and most of the day (11 hrs) we had a powercut today - no snow - but when you don't have general means to heat something - soup is something that is easy to reheat and hot food. relatively easy over a small gas stove or on the top of a woodburner.

Many of my neighbours were a bit stuck, thank god for solars and a battery in my case though. We managed to turn as much as possible off to stop too much power pull and still kept heating on and could microwave ermmm soup :-)

I do get what you are saying though but I wonder if people shop every day or something. I did get some extra milk but mostly as we were down to half a pint till delivery Monday.

DOubt we will get that much though - haven't for years