Another effect of climate change

For the record, I didn't go buy milk and bread today because snow is forecast for tonight. I went to buy milk and bread because we were out, and being out nixes half the things that the resident Food Rut Girl will eat this week. The grocery store lacked the traditional pre-storm frenzy, though, and that makes me wonder. Either we now know better than to buy food that requires electricity to keep or cook in advance of any kind of weather, or we've forgotten how to overreact, I mean, prepare for winter precipitation. Everyone knows no snowstorm can be survived without milk and bread, but, according to today's paper, we haven't accumulated 4 inches at once since 2003. We have had, of course, two ice storms in the last month, and the TV reporter girls have switched to interviewing power company linemen rather than grocery shoppers when the winter skies cloud up. It's as if we've moved to Tennessee without packing a box.

Our bread, by the way, was smashed in the trunk on the way home. Good thing I found $100 worth of who knows what on my way to the bakery department. Otherwise, how would we ever endure the storm?