Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 09, 2015

he has no choice but to go…

need to get there early for the bread and milk.

I live in Wisconsin. If you would think any state can handle a little snow, we would be it, but every little predicted 2-4" storm brings hordes out to clean out the grocery shelves like it’s the 2011 blizzard. Never once have I even seen reports of the grocery being closed or out of food because of the weather and I’ve slogged through 2 ft of snow with 6-8 ft drifts to get a few days of food in 2011. It took over an hour to travel the 1.5 miles on foot.

I grew up in Wisconsin also. This was back in the 40s. I never noticed this back then, Must be a new life style with everyone running scared. We never had a school closing due to snow that I can remember.

At UW one day though the instructor didn’t make it. The whole class was there though.

We see it all the time on the news. A dusting of snow in Atlanta and the city comes to a stand still. A little ice in Dallas and there are massive pile ups on the highways. A foot of snow in Buffalo and people shrug. Yesterday schools were closed – we had a wind chill day -25 F. Went to college in upstate NY. Registering for spring classes, -35 F – wind chill -70. Had to walk a mile from the dorms to register and a mile back. Didn’t think anything of it.

biglar, as you know Michigan’s Upper Peninsula actually has it’s own upper peninsula, The Keweenaw…I was talking to a gas station owner in Copper Harbor…They get over 300 inches of snow a year……..They bus the kids 40 miles, to Calumet, for school…They had one snow day..and it was because of ice….Of course there is only one road, so they just keep plowing it…..Can’t see anything left or right because the snowbanks are so high. 1 snow day….

4th panel, did no one notice that Janis is repeating what Arlo must’ve said in an ambiguous tone? Arlo implying that Janis was a worry-wart possibly (in light of hs statement that they were well stocked… no need to go outside and stand in line w/ all the other Chikin Little;s)?

I’m having a little trouble connecting the dots between panels 3 and 4. Obviously, he said “Yes, I know you.” But there was something else, what was it?

“Be prepared” makes me think maybe he referred to a certain Tom Lehrer song (was she the “girl scout who is similarly inclined”?).

Having been married for 40 years, I caught it instantly. Arlo thought out loud and will now pay dearly.

when we are in for a really cold snap I buy stuff to make lots and lots of soup. Heck I can make bread and we always have 2 gallons of milk on hand.

Of course this doesn’t happen very often since I live in North Texas

Here in the Washington DC area, the line is “driving skills are water soluble”. We get any amount of precipitation and people start wrecking their cars. Snow, and they start abandoning their cars in the middle of the interstates. If a real emergency ever happens, nobody is going to get out alive, because all the roads will be blocked with wrecked and abandoned cars.

Why bread and milk? Are they the essence of survival?

Gotta watch every little word, Arlo.

If it looks like snow, the only thing you have to do to be prepared is check if the snowblower starts and find the shovels, Janis.

Here in south Texas we don’t see much freezing precip. Because I grew up in the Midwest, I know how to drive on the stuff, but when it hits here I feel no need to go out and prove I can handle it because I know nearly everyone else can’t. When there’s very little traction you can only dodge so many idiots before they make you one of their own. I hide.

It tends to be bread, milk and eggs around here. We call storms “french toast specials” because that is what usually ends up happening to the unneeded supplies. Even people who don’t consume bread, milk or eggs will buy them when a storm is approaching.

70 here in San Diego today..

nosirrom: Nobody else said it, so I have to: I don’t think much of it either.

Jus suis Charlie

Why doesn’t she go to the store herself? She wants to go, he doesn’t.

Gas stove…gas water heater….gas space heater…plenty of grub in the house….old fashioned non-electric can opener…let ’er come!!! (Although down in this part of the country snow is rare…and one flake makes a hard winter).

When we were young, there was no such thing as “stocking up” or buying extra anything. It took a week’s pay just to cover the bills and minimal groceries. Is that because there were no credit cards back then or is everybody rich these days?

Yes, we know you..A man is the head of the house… But… the woman is the neck, and whichever way the neck turns, the head has to go.

It got down to 22° in St. Petersburg in Dec. of 1962, and our Australian pines (invasive species anyhow) and royal poincianas bit the dust.