Storm Checklist

[lagilman]

Under the theory that, if you're prepared, the storm won't be an issue:

• eggs? check
• bread? check
• leftover chili? check
• booze? check
• enough cat food and litter? check
• fuzzy socks? check
• down blanket set up on the sofa? check
• tech charged up? check
• analog reading material? check
• enough fruit juice to get me through until monday? check

Yeah, we're all set.  The storm shall therefore be a non-event.


EtA: just in time for them to officially set a blizzard warning for NYC.  *sigh*  So I will go to this damn meeting in jeans and my cowboy boots, and they will judge me as they will.  At least I'll stay warmish and dryish, if not stylish.

EtA2: and the meeting was just moved up to the morning.  It still won't be pretty, but I'll be home by the time the worst hits, hopefully.

Comments

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

I bet you look awesome in jeans and cowboy boots.

Sounds like you are well prepared. Except you didn't mention a supply of hot beverages.

[lagilman]

Coffee's up there with air as "le duh." '-)

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Well it's just one of those things that if you don't check it, it will be out and then where would you be?

[lagilman]

Suffocating and dying horribly before I can get to my stockpile?

Likewise for the lack-of-air.

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

Candles and/or flashlights with lots of batteries?

[lagilman]

Leftovers from Sandy. I'm stocked for at least two more storms.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

btw, my guy is now your chief weatherdude. They're out in LI, but he's in charge of Eastern Region and having a lovely time trying to suss out what the storm will do.

Oz

[lagilman]

When they figure it out, have him call me.

:-)

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

as far as I can tell from Virginia (where the storm will have little impact), it's something along the lines of 'respect the storm.' He's going to be out on the LI north shore in our new house armed with a shovel. (I have the snowblower here.)

Last I heard, they were debating whether to issue the blizzard warning for NYC...when I saw your post, I knew what their decision had been.

Oz

[gmh.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed from across the pond; snow is a particular stiff upper lip blind spot for the Brits; we tend to throw a snit over a few inches, but we rarely get anything truly inconvenient.

Hope everything turns out as well as can reasonably be expected!

[lagilman]

We may get 3". We may get a foot or more. The folk in Boston and points north are going to get HAMMERED.

(my poor sister...)

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Stay safe and warm.

Those poor folks in LI and NJ who are still living in tents! I can't imagine how they're going to manage this.

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

Stay safe, warm, and unbroken!

[mikaela-l.livejournal.com]

Stay safe, Laura Anne!

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

I guess having TP on the list for the great white death is a Midwestern thing.

Best of luck!

[lagilman]

At the risk of TMI, I have a compromised digestive system. Running out of TP isn't even a consideration in this household. Like coffee and air, they're everyday essentials where if the stock even starts to get low, we replenish.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, that wasn't TMI. Not with three kids in my house, it isn't.

Still, you'd be amazed at the run of white bread, milk, and TP that happens every time snow approaches SW Ohio.

[lagilman]

...the temptation to make a white bread joke is DEFCON 4 high....

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Go for it! It's Friday, after all.