I've been living with this annoyance for years. My town, a good old small town, has a lot of wealthy and intelligent individuals... but apparently no one that possesses any common sense. Every time it flurries, or if there's even a mention of snow on the news, people freak out and run to the grocery and drug stores to stock up. Every single time this happens, the snow hardly amounts to anything. Everyone drove big old SUVs too... Land Cruisers, Landrovers, Hummers, etcetera... so you would think that even if there was snow, they'd be able to get out to get stuff. It was good for some entertainment though... my mom always had food and stuff in the house, and she always said, "there's no way the storm is going to be THAT bad... and even if we get snowed in, we have food". It was always nice to sit back and laugh.