Survival in Queens

I have to laugh when, here in NYC we get a forecast for blizzard, and we get a lot of snow dumped on us (they're predicting around 20") that people freak out and all run to the grocery store to "stock up". I walked in this afternoon, saw the lines of people across the store, each person clutching stacks and stacks of packages of meat, like they expected to have to survive the entire Winter in a sod hut on the prairie or something, and turned around and walked right back out, forget that. I mean, the Chinese restaurant across the street from my apartment is still open, for chrissakes. The delivery guy is running out takeout on his little scooter. Sheesh.