Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 13, 2025

Our second son has lived in Nashville for almost 20 years. He is still amazed how quickly those items disappear when snow is predicted.

Cocoa would have been a better answer

Before it snowed I went to my neighborhood Staples for some bread, eggs, and milk. But they didn’t have any.

I make french toast about once every 10 days.

I will judge you. My judgement is that you are being very sensible.

My Mother would send me to the store with her list…wine, cheeses, grapes. We woukd have a snow party. People act like they’re going to be cooped up for days. That doesn’nt happen here. We got 4 inches of snow friday. The roads are all clear. I’ve never not been able to get out and go when I want to. 4 wheel drive helps.

Redneck Snow Day. Just add beer to the list.

There was a time when snow threatened that the rush was to blockbuster or red box to get the best movies and to stock up on popcorn.

Never under-estimate the power of propaganda on the least intelligent

Yes, dozens of loaves of bread and 55 gallon drum of milk.

There is a satirical web site/FB page called the French Toast Alert System (or something like that…) They predict storm intensity according to (predicted) pieces of French Toast.

Don’t forget to let the bread get a little stale but not moldy.

Make sure you have vanilla!

Where I live there are three supermarkets and goodness-knows-how-many delis within a two-block walk. And people STILL run to the store to “stock up” whenever it snows.

I always wondered why these three items flew off the shelves during weather alerts. I always thought it was because scrambled eggs and toast were an easy meal to make in the event the electricity went out and people were using propane torches or battery operated skillets to cook. Making French toast never crossed my mind. I wonder what the people in France call French toast?

“Make french toast” – is that what they’re calling it now … ?

And cold weather too!

Don’t forget the toilet paper.

Don’t forget the real maple syrup :) And put some cinnamon in that egg mix along with the vanilla mentioned above :)

’Mericans are easily panicked by events that might impact their food (or TP) supply.

What, no bananas?

Back in the day, I grew up in a suburb of a major city. It was all urban, and there was no bussing. The district did have busses for extracurriculars, but everyone walked to school by day. The district never closed for weather. We had a major blizzard in 1978, and the district remained open. They finally, reluctantly closed down when no one showed up, including teachers, and the Governor ordered all schools closed.

I’ve heard tons of “shut down for days” stories from a friend that lives outside of Dallas; they just don’t get bad weather (snow) often enough to justify all the heavy removal equipment. Up here in Minnesota, we’ll get occasional grocery ‘runs’ when they’re predicting those big, multi-day storms, but we know it’s bad when all the local news say that everyone is sold out of snowblowers and generators.

“Don’t judge us”? Arlo, you are us!

yum. :g