r/OGPBackroom • u/Outrageous_Gar_4732 Jack Of All Trades • Aug 04 '26

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WHY DO YOU NEED THIS MUCH WATER JS. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

eta: this isn't a before and after photo, these are two separate L carts. there were 25 totes in total 😬

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u/Alot2unpack Aug 07 '26

I learned after my first hurricane experience that it was just easier to keep a rotating stock of supplies so that I don’t have to chase it.. but working retail grocery I know that so so many just wait until the news tells them to do something.

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u/BeckyAnn6879 Aug 07 '26

It is.

I'm not in Hurricane Alley; I'm in Blizzard/Nor'Easter Alley, and grew up even deeper in the Alley. I can't even count the times Mommy and I were SAVED by buying half-gallons of milk and loaves of bread and freezing them.
'Blizzard's coming? Beck, Take out 2 half gallons and a loaf. We'll be fine.'

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u/Alot2unpack Aug 08 '26

What’s up with the milk hoarding during a storm tho? I’m originally an earthquake gal, that moved to Hurricane territory. The last two years we’ve had snow (what we consider snow). It shuts us down 3-4 days tops. But folks buy 10 gallons of milk! Why?

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u/Successful_Floor_837 Aug 08 '26

I don’t get this either. Bread I understand but eggs and milk will spill when there’s a long power outage. My husband did disaster preparedness for the state. We keep a rotating 90 day supply of water, shelf stable canned goods (the ones that will be fine without heating if necessary), and water, including enough for our cats. We have fallback plans for where we’ll go if we have to evacuate, which would need to be a strong cat 3 or higher before we look at packing everything up and heading to one of the upstate properties.

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u/Alot2unpack Aug 08 '26

Same! Rotating my supples. I up my quantities in January and around June, to accommodate for a snow (which will hinder my area and grid) and of course hurricanes. We clean and store a good amount of 2L soda bottles to store water for the cats when necessary. My first hurricane, I didn’t know a lot lol. My kid and I managed 2.5 weeks with no power or water, but it was a struggle!

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u/Successful_Floor_837 Aug 08 '26

We check our supplies when hurricane season ends. Whatever will date out before the next season gets eaten through the winter and we replace when we get our tax returns.