Regarding stocking up before bad weather, my own larder is pretty much bare at this point. I don't have enough food to feed us all for 3 days, dry beans and pasta included. Water, around here I worry about losing my power because my pump doesn't work if the power is out. The central heat is gas but the ignition is electric. My gas stove is the same, but can be lit with matches/lighter. I have used my oven to heat the living room/kitchen when the last bad storm we had left us without power for 7 or 8 days. That was all the way back in 1999!
The ice broke limbs, which fell onto and broke power lines, which is supposedly all fixed now by SCE&G but I don't want to test it out. Driving is out, nobody down here knows how to drive in snow/ice, myself included. A quarter inch of snow cripples us, we do not have the equipment to salt/sand the roads to make them safe. The schools close at the threat of bad weather, government offices shut down, and we walk to the neighborhood store if we run out of necessities. Walking in the snow is fun, driving in it, not so much. Anyway, hopefully we won't have any wet white stuff this year, I'm not in the mood.
Hope you're all having a great day and staying warm! I've been in a cleaning frenzy but have used up all my adrenaline and now have a headache and a horrible bad mood. Yippee. Tonight is early bedtime so I don't dare take a nap right now, I'll be up all night. Have to find an interesting movie or concert to watch, help me get over the grumps. Talk to you later!

Hope you're all having a great day and staying warm! I've been in a cleaning frenzy but have used up all my adrenaline and now have a headache and a horrible bad mood. Yippee. Tonight is early bedtime so I don't dare take a nap right now, I'll be up all night. Have to find an interesting movie or concert to watch, help me get over the grumps. Talk to you later!