https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 15:19:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse/page/2#post-556923 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:26:09 +0000 MrsKoala 556923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're ready in CT with lots of booze and a back-up generator from the in-laws! I got a snow day today and DH is working from home (but he's sick). Gotta go out and do a quick shovel of the driveway so that we can keep up with it! We're predicted to get 2 feet here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse/page/2#post-556901 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:10:43 +0000 mrs. bird 556901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ktdid23: my mom works in maternity &amp; last night i was talking to her &amp; said something about how she'll be busy in 38 weeks and then she got all confused because she thought i was trying to tell her i was pregnant but the math didn't make sense, haha, poor thing got all excited &amp; then disappointed! </p> <p>for all of you =)<br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU&#038;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU&#038;feature=player_embedded</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse/page/2#post-556630 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:47:19 +0000 ktdid23 556630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wanna know something funny? I got pregnant during the Feb 2010 Snowmageddon storm... and that October, all the nurses could talk about was what a busy few weeks it had been in the L&amp;D wing of our hospital :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556462 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:54:13 +0000 Meridian 556462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Good luck guys!! I am kind of jealous... I'm in Chicago and we haven't had a BIG snow yet this season. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556453 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:52:10 +0000 PurplePumps 556453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: we have electric stove too. Aside from the fact I already hate cooking on it, it sucks even more when I *can't *cook on it when we lose power. During the October storm 2 years ago we used the grill to cook on for 5 days.<br /> We have well water too, so no water when we lose power too! We're just sitting ducks staring at a wall. I didn't think to do anything to prep, hope the storm is not too bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556370 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:21:47 +0000 blackbird 556370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel dumb now that you all have gas stoves, ha! We only have electric so it didn't occur to me that the power may go out, but the gas stove may not! When our power goes out, we are SOL! </p> <p>Hope everybody stays safe, warm, and well fed during the storm! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556301 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:04:37 +0000 mrs. wagon 556301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The snow has started here, just south of Boston...!!! So excited. I love getting snowed in. We've been lucky in the 3+ years we've been in this house-- even when all the houses across the street have no power, we've kept power somehow. Fingers crossed we keep our power. We live right on a main road, which is actually a positive only in these kinds of storms. We park right in front of our front door so all we need to do is shovel about 4 feet of driveway and we can get out. Our landlord usually sends plowers but during the last storm they never came (to her house either). But our neighbors in the other unit in the house have 2 pickup trucks and a plow :D</p> <p>We just stocked up on milk and eggs and bread earlier this week, so today we just have to find some more bottled water and make sure the car is filled with gas. The car is our backup power source... we would start the car and charge our phones / laptops in there if we needed to. And I'd pump in there! Haha. </p> <p>The museum is closed today so I am home and I cancelled our nanny. Wagon Jr.'s daycare is OPEN!!! woohoo. That really worked out because Wagon Sr. HAD to go in to work today. Today is the last day of the week long conference he runs once a year. The conference takes place in a hotel and all the participants stay in that hotel, so whoever didn't change their flight to leave last night is right there in the building, so they can't cancel the last day of the course. So he drove in and is planning on driving home (and picking up Wagon Jr. on the way home, and stopping for our last needed supplies) around noon. </p> <p>I made a big batch of spaghetti and meatballs two nights ago, and defrosted some meat last night, so we are all set for dinners for at least 2 nights. We've got frozen cookie dough, popcorn, and hot chocolate. We're ready! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556280 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:59:22 +0000 MamaMoose 556280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: they've named the storm nemo!</p> <p>I'm down south so I don't get to experience big storms any more but my parents are up in MA and they are hunkered down for a couple days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556278 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:58:54 +0000 Foodnerd81 556278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: Finally figured out the Nemo reference-- it's the name of the storm (like Sandy, Irene). I didn't know Nor'Easters got names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556277 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:58:32 +0000 Modern Daisy 556277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: Unfortunately DH is working as well and he stays much later than I do so I won't even have his help carrying things back from the grocery store. I'm going to try to leave a little early today and go straight there and just pick up whatever's left! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556261 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:54:15 +0000 knittylady 556261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's started!! I'm real excited for this! :) Most people I know got today off and everyone else is updating facebook as they wait for the email ok to head home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556260 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:53:03 +0000 mrs. bird 556260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Modern Daisy: oh no! Is DH working? Can you send him scouring for food before it gets bad? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556252 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:50:59 +0000 Modern Daisy 556252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am so not ready for the storm. My office is actually open today even though most transportation isn't running so I had to come in. Meanwhile I have no food in the house whatsoever and by the time I can make it to the grocery store it will be ransacked. They don't make shipments into Manhattan during and right after storms so I don't know what we're going to do.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556234 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:47:08 +0000 MrsH 556234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got over a foot last night. I like your plans ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556226 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:43:54 +0000 sorrycharlie 556226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: french toast of course! assuming you have a gas stove top :) eta - just saw everyone already answered! lol late to the party.</p> <p>we're somewhat stocked but i didn't go crazy. LO drinks breastmilk and no food, got the brita filled and a case of bottled water, lots of milk and cereal and pasta, etc :) </p> <p>did not fill the tub, though. wondering if i should.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556202 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:35:45 +0000 mrs. bird 556202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: when you have a well you lose water when the power is out. Whe you don't have water you can fill the tank you make the toilet flush. </p> <p>@blackbird: With a gas range you turn on the gas &amp; light it with a match or lighter when there is no power. I would be very happy with all that French toast! </p> <p>@Anagram: That seems like a lot of milk, but maybe they had LOs and planned to be stuck inside for a couple days. LOs drink tons of milk! Plus you use milk &amp; eggs to make a lot of other things and they take longer to restock than non perishable items after a storm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556187 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:30:23 +0000 rachiecakes 556187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I'm scared to cook with gas when we don't have electricity! I'd never survive in the wilderness... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556168 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:22:52 +0000 Foodnerd81 556168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: If you have a gas stove, maybe you can still cook? I don't know, I've had an electric stove for a while, so when we lose power, we are out of luck on cooking. I think it's also in case you can't get out to the store, even if you don't lose power. I like the idea of living on french toast though! </p> <p>I don't understand a lot of the things people do for storm prep though. Took me years, literally, to understand why people to fill up the bathtub-- like, ew, are people going to drink bathtub water? (You use it to help flush the toilet, somehow). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556149 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:15:41 +0000 MapleMoose 556149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My office closed and DH gets to work from home today. I hope we don't lose power. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556148 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:14:44 +0000 blackbird 556148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah but....how do you cook the eggs without power?! lol. I guess unless you boiled them all first then just munched on boiled eggs? And it really sucks to not be able to get anything out of your fridge for 48 hours!</p> <p>I always imagine people living off french toast when they say they stock up on eggs+milk+bread before a storm :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556145 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:13:13 +0000 photojane 556145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a little jealous. I live in the "south" so it's just raining here. It's been raining torrentially since 11 last night... ugh. Where's my snow?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556128 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:05:00 +0000 Anagram 556128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: when hurricane sandy hit, allll the eggs and milk were gone first, and I wondered the same thing. If the electricity goes out, what do you do with it all? Esp because with Sandy, it wasn't cold enough to store it outside or anything (plus, where we live, everyone lives in highrise apartments, so there isn't really an "outside" to keep stuff.</p> <p>But I still saw people loading up their carts with 4-5 jugs of milk. =) I bought one small can of powdered milk, just in case we didn't have electricity for a loooong time, like 3 weeks, and we wanted cereal. Didn't end up using it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556122 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:01:53 +0000 rachiecakes 556122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: what's the Nemo reference? I've seen it all over FB and don't get it, haha.. I'm always last to know these things! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556121 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:01:30 +0000 mrs. bird 556121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: i wouldn't worry about the eggs! we turn the fridge &amp; freezer to a colder setting before storms so things get extra cold, usually if you leave it closed it stays good for at least a day or two. i don't expect to lose power, we usually don't, but just in case! like @foodnerd81 said, you just stick it in a cooler outside if need be. it's 24 degrees out, it'll stay cold =) i don't think most areas will get 34", but we live in an area that always gets hit with the higher amounts because of the hills and valleys, so we'll get well over 2 feet!</p> <p>@rachiecakes: you have some dedicated employees! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556119 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:00:16 +0000 yoursilverlining 556119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Our power lines are underground too and we lose power fairly regularly when it's stormin' outside :/ wah </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556116 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:57:31 +0000 rachiecakes 556116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: if we get 30"+ of snow I'll put my freezer items on the porch :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556109 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:52:34 +0000 rachiecakes 556109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I believe so. I'm the manager of my dept. so I've told my staff they can leave anytime they'd like. (I also told them last night they didn't have to come in, but everyone is here today) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556107 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:50:47 +0000 Foodnerd81 556107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: Exactly-- keep the fridge/freezer door closed and it will stay good for like, 18 hours in the fridge and longer in the freezer (48 hours if you don't open it?) </p> <p>Otherwise, cooler outside would do it. You could pack it with snow instead of ice packs, but it would probably not freeze in the cooler the way it would right outside in the snow. And eggs stay good a long time-- some places they don't even store them in the refrigerator. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556101 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:47:32 +0000 blackbird 556101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow 34" of snow!</p> <p>Um....what do you do with the milk and eggs if the power goes out?!?! Specifically the eggs? haha. </p> <p>The practical side of me says that you'll just end up having to put your food outside in the snow if you go without power too long :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whos-ready-for-the-snowpocalypse#post-556097 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:44:33 +0000 Foodnerd81 556097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: July 30-- so happened a few days after Sandy, really. </p>