Snow and Grocery Shopping

I have had the fortunate experience of living all over this great country of ours, from Florida to NYC, and out to the California coast. Currently I reside in Colorado (hopefully you already guessed that by the title of the blog and my profile, but hey, who am I to judge your smarts), and Colorado is great. My biggest gripes are that 1. people don't know how to drive in the snow, and 2. the state doesn't know how to quickly remove said snow from the roadways before #1 happens.

Rock-star Wife and I moved here from the Northeast part of the country. I must preface this next sentence by stating I hated living in NJ, and the only reason it was bearable is I met Rock-star Wife there (but at that point she was just Rock-star). NJ and NY really have their act together when it comes to clearing the road of snow. Notice I did not say snow removal, because they don't remove the snow, they push it to the side where it sits for 3 months. But they do clear the roads really well. Why, you might ask? Because they use SALT! In Colorado, they only use sand and some other crap that doesn't do anything to actually melt the ice or snow. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it's some eco-friendly, hug a tree crap. So because of #2, #1 happens. 'Nuff said.

Once a big snow storm is predicted, that's when the second part of the title happens...the grocery shopping. People here are insane. Every time I go to the store when a big storm is predicted, the store is always out of the same things: toilet paper, eggs, milk and bread. Because I think very differently than most, I have hypothesized what the purchasers of these items are doing:

I have come to the conclusion that during large snowstorms, people in Colorado make french toast while sitting on the toilet.