You'd think it was the next Ice Age or something...

[KatMode]

The forecasters have been warning us Okies for a few days now that a huge ice storm is headed our way. As in typical Oklahoma weatherman style, they are acting like the next Ice Age is about to occur with this storm. Yes, it is a big storm and yes, people should be prepared, but I was not prepared for the massive hordes of people at the grocery store. Holy shit.

Thankfully, we (or rather, my husband) had done our *major* grocery shopping last week. So I just needed to run to the store for a few things for dinner that night. We were going to make my grandfather's salmon loaf, however, we were missing a couple spices and basics like milk and butter. So I thought I'd just run to the store right after work, no big deal. I'm driving to the store and as I approach, I had to do a double-take. Surely there was something going on in the parking lot of our favorite locally owned grocery store, because I have NEVER seen the parking lot COMPLETELY full. But no, that's how many people are at the store. There are cars circling around, as if it were the OU campus where students volutured the parking lot for one of the few parking spaces. If the parking lot is this big of a madhouse, I can only imagine what the inside is like. My mind does a quick check - shit, do I REALLY need to go to the store or can I avoid that mess? We need milk and bread for this weekend, so fuck, I gotta go in. Damn.

I pull into the parking lot, prepared to drive around for a few minutes trying to find a space, although the empty lot next door was looking pretty sweet. Hell, it's reasons like this for having an SUV. Low and behold, someone is backing out of one of the closests spots to the front - right in time for me to whip it and snatch it up. Mwhwhahaha, I'm thinking - rack me, I've got a kick ass parking spot and I just pulled into the lot and some of these other idiots are still driving around looking for one. I head on in to the store, feeling like I just got double prizes in the cracker jack box.

As soon as I step inside, I run into a large group of people standing around, looking like they'd never seen a grocery store before. I hear the words "no more carts" and think, shit... can I carry the few things I need or can I make it with one of those hand basket things? A quick check of the list - Yes! The only issue is going to be carrying the heavy shit comprised of: a gallon of milk, two cases of Coke, and a case of bottled water, but fuck it - I used to work in a Lay-a-way department - I can carry all that shit, and freak people out doing it. (I'm about 5'3 and 100 lbs, so people are always asking if I need help). Avoiding the cart area, I pick up the last hand basket whilst laughing in my head at all those people waiting for carts. Score #2.

Weaving and bobbing through old people, slow people, and kids, I get everything on my list in about 10 minutes. Almost had a showdown with a woman in one of those faggoty motorized carts, because she thinks she's always got aisle right-of-way due to that cart. If she hadn't had a tube sticking out of her nose, I would have a few words for her impatient ass. But I don't have time for this shit anyway - I'm ready to check out after stopping for the last item - the case of water. So I get both cases of Coke and the milk in the hand basket, and I grab a case of water with the other hand. I'm thinking I AM THE WOMAN being able to carry all that shit by myself while looking at these other lazy ass people with carts containing fewer things than I had (I had about 20 things total). What a freaking waste of a cart. Besides, maybe it's shit like this is why I'm not some overweight fat slob who's trying to catch their breath from walking the entire length of the grocery store. I get looks of 'oh god, that girl is going to drop something'. I don't. I find the shortest check-out line I can and get in.

I'm looking around at everyone, and notice that people are stocking up on shit like the end of the world is near. People are grabbing not just a loaf or two of bread, but 5 loaves!! One person had 5 loaves of bread (all the same type), 3 gallons of milk, 4 cases of soda, 2 dozen eggs, about 10 frozen dinners, and enough cans of soup that he could have filled a small swimming pool. Good god people, it's an ice storm, not the coming of christ. You don't need 20lbs of potatos, unless you're feeding an army, feeding the homeless, or are just a huge fan of potatos. Calm down. The grocery store wil be here on Monday... and Tuesday... and every day after that.

The woman in front is placing the last of her items on the belt, all the while telling the clerk that they are out of tomato sauce. She's bitching about it, and the checkout guy picks up the phone and starts calling people. Grrr, I'm starting to think, but there's several items yet to go, so there may be time. I'm listening to the checkout guy - there is nobody in the stock room to get to the huge pallet of tomato sauce that came in this morning - they are all up at the front checking. Checkout guy asks the woman if she really needs it and she says, "yes! I don't want to have to make another stop!" Well too fucking bad, I'm thinking. Take a look around you, you dumb fuck. Shelves are emptying faster than you can say ice storm. What the hell makes you feel so special that you have to hold up the entire checkout lane because you can't plan ahead? So I notice in the next lane over, someone has tomato sauce on the belt. Now I'm pissed. Obviously this woman doesn't know how to fucking shop or how to add 2 small cans to equal one big can. So I say, "that woman over there has tomato sauce..." Thinking that they would see that the damn tomato sauce is out there, and she can always go back in and get it without holding everyone else up. Stupid bitch. So the woman then gets pissy and says, "the shelf was completely empty". Well, obviously not if someone else has the shit right there. But you can tell she's one of those bitches that won't move her fat ass because she expects someone to get that shit for her. The checkout guy asks the bagger to run back and get her some. Thankfully the bagger knew where to look and got them quickly. Get her totalled up and the fuck out of here, please, I'm trying to telepathically tell the checkout guy. He must hear me because she's gone in a few minutes.

As I'm signing the cc slip, the checkout guy asks, "you need any help out with this?" No, I say. Well, he doesn't believe me of course, even though the thought that I somehow got it all to the checkout counter by myself to begin with, didn't occur to him. He flags over another bagger, and the poor kid looks like he's having a harder time carrying just the two cases of Coke and the case of water than I did carrying everything. We reach my car, and I get the truck open just in time, or he would have dropped my shit.

I could not get out of that parking lot fast enough. Fucking freaked out people shopping like it's Y2K.

Today our weathermen are falling all over themselves reporting on the sleet and shit that started falling around 9am. Thankfully our 70 degree weather yesterday is helping to keep the roads from becoming to bad just yet. However by this evening, it's going to be pretty ugly out there.

But at least I've got my milk and Coke to get me through.

[Mister Bushice]

But at least I've got my milk and Coke to get me through.

Don't snort the wrong one.

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Good God, KuntMode... I bet your husband beats you because you never shut the fuck up. Long winded douche says... what?

[Mikey]

I could not get out of that parking lot fast enough. Fucking freaked out people shopping like it's Y2K.

Didn't know that Jack was that big of a shopper.

[Cuda]

Wouldn't you like a little bit of global warming right about now?

[Goober McTuber]

So I get both cases of Coke and the milk in the hand basket, and I grab a case of water with the other hand. I'm thinking I AM THE WOMAN being able to carry all that shit by myself while looking at these other lazy ass people with carts containing fewer things than I had (I had about 20 things total).

You put two cases of Coke, a gallon of milk and about 16 other things in a hand basket? I think I’ll call bullshit right there.

[Tom In VA]

So I get both cases of Coke and the milk in the hand basket, and I grab a case of water with the other hand. I'm thinking I AM THE WOMAN being able to carry all that shit by myself while looking at these other lazy ass people with carts containing fewer things than I had (I had about 20 things total).

You put two cases of Coke, a gallon of milk and about 16 other things in a hand basket? I think I’ll call bullshit right there.

Oh I don't know, a couple of items in the basket, the milk in the basket, the lotion in the basket ....





A case of soda under each arm the the water grasped with the free hand. It could work. Plus she's a chick, she has an extra place to stash things.

[BSmack]

The biggest hazard in an ice storm are downed trees taking out power lines. Which, last I checked, Oklahoma doesn't exactly have an abundance of trees. They should be up and running as soon as the ice melts on the roads. Right?

[Dinsdale]

The biggest hazard in an ice storm are downed trees taking out power lines.

Well, maybe not the "biggest."

Sin,
nebraska drivers

[Derron]

The biggest hazard in an ice storm are downed trees taking out power lines.

Well, maybe not the "biggest."

Sin,
nebraska drivers

We highly disagree with this claim.

Sincerely,

Imported Oregon residents who can't drive on snow or ice of any kind.

[Biggie]

milk and Coke

Raaaak.

tomato sauce.

Whaaaaaaat?

[KatMode]

So I get both cases of Coke and the milk in the hand basket, and I grab a case of water with the other hand. I'm thinking I AM THE WOMAN being able to carry all that shit by myself while looking at these other lazy ass people with carts containing fewer things than I had (I had about 20 things total).

You put two cases of Coke, a gallon of milk and about 16 other things in a hand basket? I think I’ll call bullshit right there.

Nope, it's true. Put a case of coke (the long, refrigerator saver shaped cases) in each corner of the basket, then put the gallon of milk in the middle between them. Fill in with a few spices, some lightbulbs, and a carton of eggs. And then, as Tom said, you put the lotion in the basket...

They should be up and running as soon as the ice melts on the roads. Right?

You'd think so, but it depends on how successful our weather forecasters are at scaring people into staying home that extra day or two. They've been saying the ice storm warning is in effect until Sunday, so they've got at least until Tuesday or so to milk this storm for all its worth. They won't have another chance to get this excited over weather until April or May.

[RadioFan]

No worries, Kat. There will be more than enough idiots sliding off the roads in the next two days, not to mention the assholes who seem to think they're impervious to ice because they have 4WD.

Btw, if any of you asshats were in front of me trying to get gas at the QuikTrip this morning, hurry the fuck up next time. Jesus ... it was bad enough these tards were taking their time like it was Holy Communion filling up their fucking Celicas and F-150s, but then, with literally a line of cars waiting for a pump, I saw at least two assholes sit in their cars for a good few minutes, fucking around, writing shit, putting their sunglasses in their super-special visor holder and God knows what else. Goddamn. Bad time to act like you're in church. GET YOUR FUCKING GAS AND GET YOUR VEHICLE OUT OF THE WAY, MORON. I pretty much set the example by swiping my credit card, filling my tank and cutting in front of the asshole who had been sitting in his vehicle in the parking lot the entire time it took me to fill up. Then he decides he wants to back out? Fuck that and fuck him, and 'bode me. I'm trying to get HOME in the ice storm, jackass, not to mention the other five drivers behind me trying to get to the damn gas pump. Adjust your radio, write in your journal and talk on your FUCKING PHONE later.

Btw, the governor has declared a state of emergency for all 77 counties in Okla., and we're not even 24 hours in yet.

I don't have to go anywhere until work on Sunday afternoon, so I'm pretty much hoping all of these assholes have wrecks and die, real slow like, given that they don't seem to be in a hurry for anything else. FUCK.

:Salude: to the rest of you iced in motherfuckers, from Texas to Ill.

[Jerkovich]

I blame Bush, damn it!

[RadioFan]

I blame Bush, damn it!

STFU, Reindeer boy. With this weather and your consistent idiocy, your nemesis looms.

[PSUFAN]

It's gonna take more than a nemesis to take down Kev. He likes getting his innards plungered into sillystring

[420]

I always love trolls that have under 300 posts in 7 years, yet put 4 months of daily speech into a single post.

Amazing.

This is why the shotgun is still available for purchase over the counter.

Can you name the owner of this troll that lives in Oklahoma?

I think it's rather obvious.

[Ang]

Since my husband doesn't do our grocery shopping, and I've been working non stop...we had nothing in the house when the sleet hit today. And I didn't really plan for it, thought the whole foreceast was the usual catastrophe thing they do here that never really happens. But once I found out that work was cancelled and the kid's school was cancelled, got out on the streets and saw the whole situation was going quickly downhill, I went to the grocery store because we needed the basics and it was a freakin madhouse. I have never in my life had to maneuver around a crowd at the paperbook reading section at the grocery store!

Thing is, it's still not that bad. If folks need to get around and can drive worth a shit, they can get around. There is a creek that runs through our neighborhood and all the neighborhood kids were down there this afternoon doing jumps on their bikes. They just wish this would have happened mid week so they would get real time off at school instead of a long weekend that was planned anyway!

[420]

Speak of the devil...

[Ang]

420,

You are full of shit.

Ang

[420]

Ang,

You are full of shit.

420


Psst... two "women" on this board are from "Oklahoma"... and happen to post minutes apart from each other late at night on the same subject?

lol!!!

...and each have under 300 posts.

This reminds me of the time two "women" from "Iceland" posted just minutes apart from each other on this board about...



P.S. It's truly amazing, that you both have the exactly same posting styles, to top it off.

[KatMode]

Ang,

You are full of shit.

420


Psst... two "women" on this board are from "Oklahoma"... and happen to post minutes apart from each other late at night on the same subject?

lol!!!

...and each have under 300 posts.

This reminds me of the time two "women" from "Iceland" posted just minutes apart from each other on this board about...



P.S. It's truly amazing, that you both have the exactly same posting styles, to top it off.

This coming from a poster with only 478 posts.

[420]

Look, Radiofan...

...take your trolls elsewhere.

You can really become one boring motherfucker.

[Atomic Punk]

[Smackie Chan]

The biggest hazard in an ice storm are downed trees taking out power lines. Which, last I checked, Oklahoma doesn't exactly have an abundance of trees.

Or power lines. They just recently got electricity, didn't they?

[DiT]

yall can bite my ice covered nuts:)

[Jerkovich]

I blame Bush, damn it!

STFU, Reindeer boy. With this weather and your consistent idiocy, your nemesis looms.

Holy shit, you frothed your twat like a latte, sugar tits.

[Cuda]

8 F
Feels Like 8F

UV Index: 2 Low
Wind: From NE at 4 mph
Humidity: 49%
Pressure: 30.27
Dew Point: -4
Visibility: 9 miles

[XXXL]

The pipes in the old theatre building got a little iced last night.

The throne growled when I flushed her this morning...

My nerd neighbor called the maintenance crew, he was fooled as well when his throne acted up...

[Ang]

420,

I'm really enthused about having a personal ankle biter who keeps track of my post numbers and times of day. You know, I could really use a personal assistant as attentive to my life as you. Then again, while attention to detail is admirable, if it comes with no clue...it's simply just annoying.

Personally, I think that you are underachieving. You chose to fuck with someone who is hardly around here. You could do better, ya know. Then again, I'm sure you already know that you won't.

All the best,
Ang

[Ang]

Only time I got out for the last couple of days after the grocery run was for a beer run, it's really not that bad out there, just a little slick...so here ya go...the bob and tom beer run song

bob and tom beer run

[Mr T]

Nope, it's true. Put a case of coke (the long, refrigerator saver shaped cases) in each corner of the basket, then put the gallon of milk in the middle between them. Fill in with a few spices, some lightbulbs, and a carton of eggs. And then, as Tom said, you put the lotion in the basket...

The power is going out....so you get lightbulbs?

I like the way you think.

[RadioFan]

Look, Radiofan...

...take your trolls elsewhere.

Not even close, Strawberry Canyon boy. Strike another notch in the IJKMOA department for Mfool.

[KatMode]

Nope, it's true. Put a case of coke (the long, refrigerator saver shaped cases) in each corner of the basket, then put the gallon of milk in the middle between them. Fill in with a few spices, some lightbulbs, and a carton of eggs. And then, as Tom said, you put the lotion in the basket...

The power is going out....so you get lightbulbs?

I like the way you think.

Those lightbulbs came in handy - as we never lost power.

After we received Round 3 Sunday morning, the husband and I drove to the K2 Mart for some cigs (yeah, here I am bitching about people not planning ahead, so serves me right, I guess). Even in the SUV, we were slipping and sliding all the way there and back. I decided that I was NOT going into work on Monday when we got back home. Granted, the morning rush-hour traffic will be lighter than usual due to the holiday today, but I'm still don't trust the idiot fucktards who drive way to fast on this shit. Besides, I went into work during the last snow storm and only 3 other people showed up that time (which we were all sent home an hour later, great waste of my time, gas, and energy). I wasn't about to run that risk again. So fuck it - I'm taking a Pussy Snow Day.

[Goober McTuber]

So I get both cases of Coke and the milk in the hand basket, and I grab a case of water with the other hand. I'm thinking I AM THE WOMAN being able to carry all that shit by myself while looking at these other lazy ass people with carts containing fewer things than I had (I had about 20 things total).

You put two cases of Coke, a gallon of milk and about 16 other things in a hand basket? I think I’ll call bullshit right there.

Nope, it's true. Put a case of coke (the long, refrigerator saver shaped cases) in each corner of the basket

Those aren’t cases, they’re 12-packs.

[KC Scott]

You could play hockey on my driveway today - Ice is at least 1" thick.

Flying to Dallas tomorrow - had some feint hopes of golfing Wed. - till I saw it's a high of 40.

Hopefully that global warming thing will kick in and all this shit will melt by the next weekend

[War Wagon]

At least we're not in Springfield, Scott. 90% of the City and surrounding areas have been w/o power since Friday night, including my daughters school dorm. Rough week-end for those kids down there. She's going to drive home today as hopefully the roads aren't too bad by now. She had to bust like one inch of ice off her car to get the door opened, and then wait in line like 45 minutes to get gas. They'll probably shut the school down for the rest of the week.

Wonder how orc's brood weathered this? I almost called him to see if he could rescue a stranded 19 year old from a frozen wasteland. Thankfully, her coach who lives in Ozark never lost power and took in half the softball team for the week-end.

I've seen some bad ice storms here before, but the one that hit Springfield was a 3 day event with wave after wave blasting that burg. We've been lucky so far this year, with most of the heavy stuff being south and east of us. It's almost like these storms make a bee-line straight up I-44. St. Louis got hammered again.

[RadioFan]

I've seen some bad ice storms here before, but the one that hit Springfield was a 3 day event with wave after wave blasting that burg.

Same here. Except Tulsa got lucky in that most of it was sleet. Except for Friday and Sunday afternoons, we didn't get much of the freezing rain -- probably about a quarter- to a half-inch coating total. Areas SE of here got hammered with an inch or more. Big difference on power lines and trees. Had the sleet/freezing rain been slightly more north, there would be a few additional hundred thousand without power in the Tulsa metro.

[Cuda]

At least Darwin got some bode out of this

Oklahoma Car Crash Kills 7 Mexicans

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Seven Mexican nationals were killed early on Sunday in Oklahoma when their minivan skidded into a tractor-trailer truck in icy conditions, police said.

The accident raised the death toll on the state's highways to 11 since an ice storm began lashing it early on Friday. The powerful front has dumped rain and ice elsewhere in the central and southwest parts of the United States, disrupting air traffic and leaving tens of thousands without power.

"It's a mess out there. You can't go anywhere," said Oklahoma highway patrol spokesman Pete Norwood.

He said Sunday's accident occurred in the early morning hours in the western part of the state. The van was carrying 12 Mexican nationals. The other five were injured and were hospitalized.


Over 90,000 homes and businesses were reported to be without electricity in Oklahoma early on Sunday as sleet once again pounded parts of the state. A state of emergency remained in effect in all 77 counties.

In north Texas, icy conditions were once again causing delays and cancellations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. A spokesman for the airport said 312 departures had already been canceled for Sunday.

[KC Scott]

At least we're not in Springfield, Scott. 90% of the City and surrounding areas have been w/o power since Friday night, including my daughters school dorm. Rough week-end for those kids down there. She's going to drive home today as hopefully the roads aren't too bad by now. She had to bust like one inch of ice off her car to get the door opened, and then wait in line like 45 minutes to get gas. They'll probably shut the school down for the rest of the week.

Wonder how orc's brood weathered this? I almost called him to see if he could rescue a stranded 19 year old from a frozen wasteland. Thankfully, her coach who lives in Ozark never lost power and took in half the softball team for the week-end.

I've seen some bad ice storms here before, but the one that hit Springfield was a 3 day event with wave after wave blasting that burg. We've been lucky so far this year, with most of the heavy stuff being south and east of us. It's almost like these storms make a bee-line straight up I-44. St. Louis got hammered again.

We're wondering how some freinds of ours down at lake of the ozarks fared. They lost a dock and almost had their boat sink after the Nov. storm. Depending on how bad that area got hit this time, it could really be a disaster.