r/HuntsvilleAlabama • u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ • 8d ago

Reminder: Start prepping for cold weather Events

The 10-15 day models are consistently showing it's going to get substantially colder by middle/late next week (Jan 8-ish). It's shaping up to be a pretty substantial cold as well.

With this cold, obviously comes the chance for frozen precipitation. Anyone saying it will definitely happen is lying, there are no definites this far out. But conditions are likely to support it happening, so might as well plan and prep for it.

Since we're 1.5-2 weeks out from it, go ahead and start gradually doing all of your extreme cold weather prep. Buy whatever supplies you use. Refill gas cans for generators. Get battery packs charged up. Make sure laundry is all done (at least washed and dried) a few days before the cold.

Comment below for your typical routines to give others ideas.

Edit: if we do end up having a weather episode, us mods will organize a megathread or two. Probably one with information, and one with pictures/videos/misc ice/snow banter

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u/sampman69 8d ago

Buy all the milk and bread!

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 8d ago

Lived in the south all my life. To this day, I still don't understand this.

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u/sampman69 8d ago

Me neither. It's comical, unless you actually need some and can't get it.

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 8d ago

I've actually had a time or two where all this is happening and happens to line up with my pretty regularly scheduled grocery shopping, and I sure enough needed milk (I usually only get half a gallon bc I don't use it that quickly), and couldn't get any

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u/templefugate 8d ago

Hmm I’m getting hungry thinking about all the milk sandwiches I’m gonna eat.

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 8d ago

People always say milk sandwiches... But they usually load up on eggs too, so I assume french toast for days.

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u/aintioriginal 8d ago

Now this is superior planning

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u/mistergroonk 7d ago

Ha! I didn't read down far enough!

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u/xfrosch 7d ago

This happens in Indiana and Illinois more than it does here. Nothing particularly southern about it.

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u/ceapaire 8d ago

Commonly used perishables. Though when I worked at a grocery store, pop tarts and beer were the highest sale items for the wintergeddon panics.

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u/Default-Name55674 8d ago

French toast time!

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u/Few-Ruin-742 8d ago

French toast forever

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u/WarEagleGo 8d ago

Where I grew up, even further south, no one had gas burners on their stove... thus without electricity, meals were poor affairs.

(cold) sandwiches are the easiest meal for a family. A family of 2-4 can go thru a loaf a bread per day...

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u/Specific_Ad2541 7d ago

Pizza heated on the grill is amazing.

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u/raevynfaerie 7d ago edited 7d ago

If you lived through the ice storms of '93/94 then you would understand. No power for days, weeks in some places. We ate a lot of sandwiches and bowls of cereal. Heated up canned soup over the wood heater. I was a kid but still remember it and always make sure to have those items on hand whenever we have a winter storm warning. Plus milk is good for snow cream :-)

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u/Infamous_Entry_2714 6d ago

THIS IS THE ANSWER 🦅 We also cooked a lot on our grill,since all the meat was thawing anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/AppFlyer 6d ago

Why was the meat thawing?

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u/Infamous_Entry_2714 6d ago

Because we were without power for 10 days and it was in the freezer

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u/AppFlyer 5d ago

And it wasn’t cold outside?

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u/Gamer-Moooooom 7d ago

You need milk for cereal and bread for Sammies. When you have kids that’s enough to get them by if power is out. That’s all I can figure. Don’t know why you need Aaaaallll of it. But.

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 7d ago

That's the best explanation I've heard. But yeah, why stockpile it when we never have more than a day or two of power outages? Are they expecting to barter or something?

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u/Higgybella32 7d ago

We had 5 days 2 years ago. Just half the block but it got challenging.

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u/Gamer-Moooooom 6d ago

Then I guess this is why everyone gets all the bread and all the milk, in case it goes on for a while and you have lots of kids 😂

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u/Higgybella32 5d ago

This is the reason.

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u/bd1223 8d ago

Milk and bread party!

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u/crunch816 8d ago

Same here. How can you forget the beer?

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u/Upset_Sun3307 8d ago

I'm thinking they get board while the power is out and churn the milk into butter for the bread. Food and entertainment!

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u/alwayscurious0991 7d ago

Also toilet paper, I don’t get either hahah, it’s like are ppl pooping and peeing more bc the weather is a bit different?😂 Have we gotten that soft? Haha jk

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 7d ago

Right!? It's one of the least versatile clean up products, as you can't really use it for anything other than wiping and then immediately flushing. Any other potential uses it may have, there's probably a better alternative.

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u/mistergroonk 7d ago

Snow Day French Toast for days, of course. (Once you get the eggs, too)

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u/Grimsterr 7d ago

Replace milk and bread with beer and Doritos, and I TOTALLY understand.

TBH, diesel, and propane for the heaters and gas for the generator are where I'm targetting my panic buying.

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u/BradCOnReddit 7d ago

The diet of the Southern Snow Monster is primarily french toast. We must buy these items to leave food for it outside and prevent attacks during snow storms.

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u/HubertusCatus88 6d ago

Snowstorm French toast.

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u/heisenbergerwcheese 6d ago

then you're not a true southerner

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 6d ago

You still haven't explained it to me and the at least 76 people who agree with me

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u/heisenbergerwcheese 6d ago

Sheep mentality... no reason, just do it

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u/_Abe_Froman_SKOC 8d ago

Yay! Milk sandwiches!

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u/Vizguy1 7d ago

Don't forget the Eggs

French Toast Party!!!!

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u/buuismyspiritanimal 7d ago

Best I can do is sourdough and heavy cream.

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u/Proper-Ad182 6d ago

What’s comical is the folks moving here that laugh at the amount of snow that we get here and make fun of the milk and bread thing, but the moment the wind blows above average and it rains they think the tornadoes are here to take them away.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

And toilet paper!