Why do people ALWAYS wait until the eleventh hour to stock up on food and supplies before a hurricane?
Please read the following article from the Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5996923.html
If you live in Houston and you have even an ounce of common sense, then you should know that every year at around this time, you’re gonna get threatened by hurricanes. And you’re gonna need the usual non-perishable foods (e.g. soups, cereals, peanut butter, granola bars, etc.,) and other vital supplies like bottled water, flashlights, batteries and generators.
So why not go shopping for these items and store them away a month or so before hurricane season? If hurricane season passes without incident and the emergency kit goes unused, then you can use the food items before they spoil and then simply re-stock those items the following summer. What is so hard about this???
Why do people have to act like such boneheads in this situation? I realize that Houston is home to NASA, but it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you wait until the last minute to buy these things, the shelves might be bare by the time you arrive at the store.
So now, what’s going to invevitably happen is people are going to crowd the local Home Depots and start fighting with other customers over the last generator in stock. Wouldn’t it have been a good idea to have gone to Home Depot two months ago and bought a generator then, knowing that you’d be fighting like a rabid dog come hurricane season??? Duhhhhhhhhhhhhh……
Good grief, you Houstonians.
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If you’ve ever worked in or for grocery and supply stores, you would know that people wait until the last minute for EVERYTHING. Christmas, Thanksgiving, and holiday, and yes, hurricanes. But it’s not everybody. It’s just a lot of people. Way too many people. You’d think they’d learn, but so far, no dice.
Because this is America and people can shop whenever they want to. Why are you freaking out about it..Did you have to work late at Wal-Mart? BTWt…some people do not have the money or credit to go buy a generator. As a native Floridian you can make it a few days with no generator after a hurricane..It is called ice chest, ice, and a grill.
Waiting till the 11th hour ensures that you will get the freshest Spam.
simply procastination
Some people, not all.
Hurricane Alicia back in 1983 (little warning for that one) taught me well. I remember driving down the middle of Memorial Drive in hurricane force winds trying to find a store that was open and had power. I got the last loaf of bread at the Dairy Ashford Randall’s (a tiny loaf of Pepperidge Farm) and promptly cussed at by some housefrau.
Since then I’ve always kept canned goods, water, and batteries stocked. My wife bought a bag of tea candles yesterday because she thought, "if we lose power, we can still have nice lighting." I won’t argue. I did have to go to Costco to replenish the supply of Rice Krispy Treats because I’ve been putting one in my lunch every day.
By and large, we Houstonians DO NOT act like boneheads. One thing your diatribe didn’t take into account was the local media whipping everyone into a froth about how power could be out for weeks or the like. Yes, people get frightened.
Lay off.
LOL I live in college station and it is the same way here! I went to get laundry detergent yesterday and wal mart is liek a mad house people frantic and buyiong water bottles and they were sold out of flashlights and candles! Crazy stuff.
Money. Those of us more fortunate have forgotten what is is like to live paycheck to paycheck. For some families with kids the pantry would be raided of those supplies before the week’s out. Sometime peope just do what they have to do. Everyone stay safe!
OMG where can I get a loaf of bread. All the stores are closed. I can’t drive because I am out of gas. Will we need water? Is the storm still coming? The sky is getting dark. They said we need to evacuate! Will I need batteries? OMG!
part of it is cause people live pay check to pay check.the other part is a act of defying that is coming.the hoping it’s not/the prayers saying we don’t need this,god please blow it in another direction.then the inevitable we are getting,so do i use the electric money and go by what we might need or do and how much am i going to need.i pray for all of them and hope that the waters are gentle.and for the people stuck out on that oil rig and that ship that stalled out are and will be safe.god bless