Bahamas hurricane. If this doesn't make you, then you are not human.

[Anto]

 

[LarryB]

I am human.

 

[Brick]

On it's way to Florida but only a category 2 now.

 

[Wazzap]

One of the first things many people do when there is a big storm in the forecast is run to the grocery store. That's when you'll find grocery stores packed with people pulling water, bread and eggs from near-empty shelves in an attempt to stock up before the storm.
[h=2]Why Shoppers Stock Up on Pop-Tarts Before a Storm[/h]
Apparently, strawberry Pop-Tarts are a huge seller before and after big storms. Walmart officials told in 2004 that strawberry Pop-Tarts increase in sales up to seven times their normal sale rate ahead of a hurricane. So, the major retailer always makes sure to stock their shelves with the popular toaster pastry ahead of nasty weather.

Pop-Tarts were on Walmart's emergency merchandise list when Hurricane Florence pummeled the Carolinas in 2018. The says that more than 350,000 boxes were sent to stores in the region in advance and after the hurricane.

You can eat Pop-Tarts without toasting them in the event that the power goes out during a storm the toaster pastries were specifically created to be shipped and stored without refrigeration. They are also non-perishable and made to last even if they are sitting in your cabinet or on store shelves for a while.

[h=2]How the Retailer Learned Strawberry Pop-Tarts Were a Storm Hit[/h]
customer shopping data during Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017 to assess how many boxes of strawberry Pop-Tarts should be shipped out for Hurricane Florence. But the company started using "predictive technology" long before that.

Walmart combed through trillions of bytes of shopper history after Hurricane Charley in 2004 to see if they could "start predicting" what shoppers needs would be before Hurricane Frances hit that same year.

Walmart had no idea that strawberry Pop-Tarts were such a big storm seller prior to this. So, the company stocked their shelves with strawberry Pop-Tarts ahead of the storm and sat back and watched them fly off the shelves. They've been mass stocking strawberry Pop-Tarts before storms ever since.

 

[UncleBob]

(CNN)Hurricane Dorian regained enough strength Saturday to once again become a Category 2 storm, ahead of an expected landfall in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

By the afternoon, the storm was 180 miles southeast of Eastport, Maine, and about 140 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the National Hurricane Center said. It was moving northeast at 29 mph, packing maximum winds of 100 mph.
Dorian's landfall in Canada is expected Saturday evening, according to CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford.

Kelly Henneberry, a resident of Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, had her bags packed and ready to go in case of a mandatory evacuation order. As of Saturday afternoon, there was just a voluntary evacuation in place, she said, and some of her neighbors had started to leave.

For now, she and her three dogs are waiting.

"We're nervous and keeping a close eye on things," she said.

Dorian's nearly two-week path has unleashed devastation in the Bahamas, where it flattened homes and swept away neighborhoods, leaving at least 43 people dead.

In the United States, several cities were cleaning up after it made landfall in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and brushed other East Coast states Friday. Five deaths have been blamed on the storm so far.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/07/us/hurricane-dorian-saturday-wxc/index.html

 

[UncleBob]

[h=1]A 6-year-old was saving money to visit Disney World. He spent it on food for Hurricane Dorian evacuees instead[/h] https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/us/boy-used-disney-money-to-feed-dorian-evacuees-trnd/index.html

 

[ROBERTSON]

I wounder if the Bahamas now thinks it was such a great idea to separate from GB.

Sounded good at the time, now they have to depend on charity.

But I'm sure the ruling class will make out OK.