"We do know that according to one study, okra water improved the blood sugar levels of pregnant rats that had gestational diabetes. "
I'm pretty certain that I don't need to fret over coming down with a case of gestational diabetes.
The parking lot at our local HEB was full this afternoon and there were exactly two carts available at the door. While we had arrived to do some light shopping for dinner, our fellow shoppers were loading theirs up as if there would be nothing on the shelf for the next week or two. Some shelves had actually been stripped of the goods usually on them.
Apparently hurricanes are serious business when you don't realize that you live so far inland that all you'll get will be rain. Either that or most of our fellow shoppers were expecting house guests from the lower Gulf Coast. That would explain the shopping cart mostly full of beer and wine, I suppose.
for those unfamiliar, the H.E.B. Grocery Company is an excellent example of an ethical corporation. The fact that they are privately held, rather than in hock to the latest bunch of investors, may be part of the secret to their success.
https://www.heb.com/static-page/Disaster-Relief?cid=H-O-PHP-BG-Disaster-Relief
Predicted blizzards in the snow belt leads to crazy people buying 200 rolls of toilet paper and an extra loaf of bread.
Holy Cow, post: 443336, member: 50 wrote: Predicted blizzards in the snow belt leads to crazy people buying 200 rolls of toilet paper and an extra loaf of bread.
If you had as many folks from California and other foreign places moving to Kansas as we suffer in Austin, most likely you'd have already stocked up on your necessities. As for toilet paper: do they not still deliver copies of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue to rural Kansas?
Kent McMillan, post: 443333, member: 3 wrote: The parking lot at our local HEB was full this afternoon and there were exactly two carts available at the door. While we had arrived to do some light shopping for dinner, our fellow shoppers were loading theirs up as if there would be nothing on the shelf for the next week or two. Some shelves had actually been stripped of the goods usually on them.
Apparently hurricanes are serious business when you don't realize that you live so far inland that all you'll get will be rain. Either that or most of our fellow shoppers were expecting house guests from the lower Gulf Coast. That would explain the shopping cart mostly full of beer and wine, I suppose.
for those unfamiliar, the H.E.B. Grocery Company is an excellent example of an ethical corporation. The fact that they are privately held, rather than in hock to the latest bunch of investors, may be part of the secret to their success.
https://www.heb.com/static-page/Disaster-Relief?cid=H-O-PHP-BG-Disaster-Relief
Was there a long line at the pharmacy counter for Xanax refills?
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We pretty much counter the desire to invade our area by routinely pointing out to the world how we live in a bland, desert-like, ultra-conservative, gun-toting, world famous for Carrie Nation's saloon destruction and a couple of rich brothers who are redesigning the entire political landscape with their own money. Who would want to move to Squareville? :eek::eek:
My reference to the snow belt insanity is based on witnessing said insanity during my years of living about a mile from the shore of Lake Michigan. Something like 12 and a half feet of snow every Winter with that arriving on October 1 finally beginning to melt off around May 1. The lake winds would build drifts nearly 30 feet tall. The highway crews were downright unbelievable. But, for those silly people living in subdivisions with a single exit point, life could get extremely boring waiting for the heavy artillery to enter their little world to let the thought of driving to buy more cigarettes and beer become reality. There were snowmobile clubs with volunteers assisting the residents of such areas with emergency needs, but cigarettes and booze were not deemed to be emergencies. That is the world where the 200 rolls of TP and one extra loaf of bread was a scene witnessed too frequently at the local supermarket.
Kent McMillan, post: 443333, member: 3 wrote: The parking lot at our local HEB was full this afternoon and there were exactly two carts available at the door. While we had arrived to do some light shopping for dinner, our fellow shoppers were loading theirs up as if there would be nothing on the shelf for the next week or two. Some shelves had actually been stripped of the goods usually on them.
Apparently hurricanes are serious business when you don't realize that you live so far inland that all you'll get will be rain. Either that or most of our fellow shoppers were expecting house guests from the lower Gulf Coast. That would explain the shopping cart mostly full of beer and wine, I suppose.
for those unfamiliar, the H.E.B. Grocery Company is an excellent example of an ethical corporation. The fact that they are privately held, rather than in hock to the latest bunch of investors, may be part of the secret to their success.
https://www.heb.com/static-page/Disaster-Relief?cid=H-O-PHP-BG-Disaster-Relief
Looks like they've made a go of it. https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-butt/
It was after I moved to Maryland that I first witnessed "storm stupidity". TP, milk and bread were the primary staples bought in bulk. Shelves cleared of at least those items. Often at the mere Threat of 2 inches of snow. Somehow folks had become convinced they would be housebound for 6 months or more with a couple flakes of snow.
When I was younger and attending school in MA, school would continue as usual even with 4-6 inches of snow falling. There was one time when I was in the 7th or 8th grade that the school bus made it's rounds while the roads were sheet ice. The power at the school had gotten knocked out so we were sent home anyway.
After moving to MD, I heard the school closing announcements made on TV and radio...... well before a single flake of snow had fallen. There were times no snow fell at all and schools had been cancelled.
My how times change. And yes, I had to walk uphill both ways without shoes regardless of temperatures or how much snow was on the ground. 😀
Now get off my lawn!!
I'm getting old I guess.....
Holy Cow, post: 443345, member: 50 wrote: [USER=3]@Kent McMillan[/USER]......and a couple of rich brothers who are redesigning the entire political landscape with their own money....
Redesigning the entire political landscape?
That's a bizarre euphemism for comments that cannot be made or replied to... but.
Your testament is such a nice fascist way to the legacy of all that is destructive to society.
With disaster looming, there are still some lines that the good people of the Houston area just won't cross.
I wonder what will happen to The River walk in San Antonio. Such a beautiful area, at least it was when I was there in 2013 for the F1 race.
Kent McMillan, post: 443333, member: 3 wrote: ..for those unfamiliar, the H.E.B. Grocery Company is an excellent example of an ethical corporation. The fact that they are privately held, rather than in hock to the latest bunch of investors, may be part of the secret to their success...
No doubt Kent helps out in writing their tv ads...here's one full of home-growed 'Texas Humility'....
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I guess since they only had thirty seconds they had to edit out the six minute blurb about how much more complex it is to raise beef down there than anyplace else. 😉
Holy Cow, post: 443336, member: 50 wrote: Predicted blizzards in the snow belt leads to crazy people buying 200 rolls of toilet paper and an extra loaf of bread.
That was something to see. Been to two grocery stores for odds and ends, and it's just like you said, the bread aisle was bare as bare could get, but the half-dead mongoloids left damn near every tortilla on the shelves. I'm still trying to figure that out.
Saw one weird guy loading up his cart with like ten or twelve baguettes(sp?) If he isn't planning on opening a soup kitchen, he's gonna' hate himself in a day or two.
R.J. Schneider, post: 443386, member: 409 wrote: Saw one weird guy loading up his cart with like ten or twelve baguettes(sp?) If he isn't planning on opening a soup kitchen, he's gonna' hate himself in a day or two.
Two words: bread pudding :yum:
Yknow sometimes people are buying for others like seniors, neighbors etc c
Etc. you gotta give people a little break if you don't know them.
Not to say that some are trying to hoard supplies.
Traveling west on I-12 this morning towards Baton Rouge, I passed the FEMA 18 wheeler that was a mobile shower unit as noted in lettering on the truck.
How's that for irony.
Robert Hill, post: 443388, member: 378 wrote: Not to say that some are trying to hoard supplies.
paden cash, post: 443382, member: 20 wrote: I guess since they only had thirty seconds they had to edit out the six minute blurb about how much more complex it is to raise beef down there than anyplace else.
I certainly wouldn't want to leave anyone with the idea that everything is more complex in Texas than some foreign place like, say, Oklahoma. Very many things are simpler and easier. For example, finding an HEB store in Texas where there are hundreds of locations is very much easier than in Oklahoma where there are maybe 1.5 stores, none of which sell good quality beers and wines.
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Us good ole boys in PLSSia purchase our fine wines from the wine sommelier at the local 7-11. 😉
Is that what that rack thingy is called? A sommelier?
When it comes to wine, just twist off the cap and take a couple of good slugs. That'll get your heart started again.
Kent McMillan, post: 443472, member: 3 wrote: I certainly wouldn't want to leave anyone with the idea that everything is more complex in Texas than some foreign place like, say, Oklahoma. Very many things are simpler and easier. For example, finding an HEB store in Texas where there are hundreds of locations is very much easier than in Oklahoma where there are maybe 1.5 stores, none of which sell good quality beers and wines.
I don't know much about Texas, having only shopped for enormously complicated software packages in Austin and Dallas and spent pleasant time at Love Field and unpleasant time at DFW, but reading about HEB has been absorbing. While I don't put much value in the distinction between billionaires minted by family-owned businesses and those minted by owners taking their companies public, HEB is obviously a huge success and one that has become so by serving its customers well. Either group is capable of both outstanding and deplorable behavior.
While they're losing market share to WalMart, they're not going quietly and they're likely to continue to succeed, albeit with a ding or two. That original $60 investment apparently has grown to more than $10 billion over 110 years, a compound growth rate of almost 19%. And that's outstanding, a testament to hard work and focus on serving.
Looking at a map of locations, HEB has quite a few stores in Harvey's path of devastation. We can only pray for them, their customers, and everyone affected by this disaster. Remember that contributions to the Red Cross are one of the most effective ways to help relieve the pain and suffering in the aftermath.
