What is the deal with people ransacking store shelves for bread, milk, and eggs before a snowstorm??

I mean, if you get seventeen feet of snow, you need to be able to make french toast right!??!!! That should be your MAIN priority with those crucial ingredients. And don't forget the cinnamon and Mrs. Butterworth! 

One of the more confounding human rituals in modern human history.

Anyone on the Northeast Coast expecting the blizzard...Go to your grocery store and those items will be in short supply...You do because they do it and they do because you do it! But there is no rhyme or reason to it!

I would stock up on beer before a storm when I lived in dc. 

Then the "storm of the century" usually ends up being a day of snow. 

If you know the shelves will be bare, then you need to get their first, has nothing to do with the actual storm.  

And nothing is worse than being stuck in your house for 4 days with no food...

My condo complex was one of the lucky few that never lost power, but getting gas was a nightmare.  

We lived on the east coast two times for a total of 6 years and I would laugh every single time there was a storm to come the grocery stores would get pummeled by fearing residents. It isnt like you live 50 miles from the grocery store, it is at worst 5 miles from your house.

One storm I remember was really bad, huge snow levels, schools cancelled for a few days...STILL why do you need to plan for a weeks plus worth of food when the plows will be out and you will be fine in a day or two or THREE max????

I never understood this way of thinking, it was almost amusing really.

My wife and I moved to Lexington KY - we both grew up in Michigan and spent a few years in Chicago.

I was driving home from work one day when there was a few inches forecasted.  I stopped my Kroger to get a couple things, and the idiots were acting like it was Armageddon.  I mean LOADING up on everything, the shelves were half empty.

I went home and grabbed the wife so we could just watch and laugh at people.  So entertaining.

Yesterday around 6:30, I wanted to get something from the hot bar from a local Shop Rite.  I couldn't even get in the parking lot!  Folks, we're only talking about a foot of snow here!  We deal with this sh!t several times each year!  If you have a decent car, you can drive in the snow because the plows are out as soon as a couple of inches accumulate.  

I had to settle on Taco Bell 

No way was I seeing that sh!t show.

only things that fly off the shelves here in maine during ICE storms,

generators fuel and snowmobile oil and bags of salt . food isn't really pillaged through.

most of us have about a months worth, between pantry, fridge and freezer.