got milk?

They say, everyone complains about the weather but no one does anything about it.

According to my most recent visit to some of the area stores, the locals are sure trying to make the best of things by stocking up on enough survival gear before barricading themselves in the family compound for the upcoming disaster that's heading our way like a runaway train.

Rumors of rain or snow related weather is enough to drive every local inhabitant to the supermarket for stockpiles of bread, milk and eggs in a vain attempt to stave off starvation with generous helpings of french toast after all hell breaks loose.

By 10 am, all that was left of this bread rationing station was a few rolls and the high priced, gourmet breads at four bucks a loaf.  Mob shopping left the milk cases completely devastated with nothing left but a few half empty cartons while broken eggs covered a ten foot radius around what used to be a well organized, maximum security egg case.  Old women, too feeble to fight the younger and faster hoard of local ladies, had no choice but to scoop up the trampled egg remnants from the freshly tiled floor.

At Lowes, milk, bread, and eggs took a back seat to ac generators as the primary survival essential, and by noon the waiting line was sixty-eight deep.  A low level clerk told someone the truck would be there before noon with enough generators for all.  By six pm the truck arrived with only 20 generators, resulting in the hospitalization of three Lowes employees.

And panic hasn't even set in yet.  Wait til tuesday when we revert to a third world country.  No electricity, no water, no heat, no food on the store shelves, and no gasoline without electricity to pump it.

The arctic front coming in from Canada and hurricane Sandy coming from the south is due to meet right over my head, resulting in what could be described as the perfect Frankenstein storm of the century.  Every weather computer model forecasts this perfect storm to linger in this area for a few days, dumping hurricane amounts of rain with a strong likelihood of copious amounts of snow, from the falling temps.

Sure will be a big one.   But I've been doing some preparing of my own.

Rum, wine, eggs, milk, bread, beer, shrimp, rum, batteries, water, fuel, non electric heat sources, sump pump, rum and, most importantly, fresh batteries for the cloudbuster.

The big question is, which direction to point the CB?  I figured the northern cold front would be fueling this potential monster so I aimed the CB in a north-west direction to divert it, or at least hold it back.  By afternoon the weather stations were mentioning the stalled front from the north.  Around 6:30 pm I turned the CB south-east in an attempt to repel the storm and possibly divert it to the west. 

I gotta tell ya, I wasn't hopeful that my feeble, single CB would have much effect against this massive collision that was going to happen, until I saw the cold front that my CB was pointing at, stall and just sit there like it hit a wall.  I can't say if it was coincidence or CB skill but if Sandy decides to alter her trajectory and go somewhere else, I'll be buying the beer this weekend.

I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.