My friend in Maryland is snowed in

[Christa]

The snow is higher than her six feet high fence and she cannot go anywhere. Fortunately they still have power, but their food is running out.

This is her last message I received a couple of hours ago:

My Yard and the whole state of Maryland,now look like Alaska! I don’t even want to talk about snow anymore. I’m just letting you all know that I am safe. I had heat and didn’t lose my power this time.Even tho I am still snowed in and running out of food :(

[LiberalFighter]

1. Sorry about this funny.

I hope she can't see Russia.


She should take a lot of pictures so she has something to show her grandkids.

Hopefully, the sun comes out and melts the snow on the cement.

[babylonsister]

2. Doesn't anybody buy canned soup or beans or ravioli or

anything like that anymore? And she has power, so there's no food in the freezer? I think this sounds kind of funny (not to demean your friend at all). Maryland isn't like little house on the prairie; maybe someone delivers? :shrug:

[GoCubsGo]

5. I know lots of people that don't stock up.

The only buy what they're going to eat for the next few days. They tend to eat out a lot, too.

[babylonsister]

8. OK, I stand corrected. Thanks. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. We'd go hungry here pretty fast

I don't stock up like I should cause I freakin hate buying groceries. So I let the cupboard get pretty bare before I go to the store.

[babylonsister]

9. And I'm a hoarder; I think my granny's depression days stuck

with me. I even save rubber bands. :crazy:

[MadHound]

12. You're not alone in that

I do the very same. It came from my Mom and Dad's depression days, they both saved everything.

At least I'm not saving used tinfoil, my Mom would do that when I was a kid, wash it and reuse it.

[Warpy]

3. Been there

It's when you find all that stuff in the back of the cabinet that looked like a good idea at the time because you wanted to try that one recipe in a magazine.

Tell her it all works in spaghetti. Most of it can work over rice. You can even make passable noodles with flour and water, no eggs. You just have to cook them carefully.

[ecstatic]

11. the only problem is it's usually expired

lol

[LaydeeBug]

4. I am in MD and am dug out just fine.

If you want, pm me where she is, I could run some stuff by (if it's not on the other side of the world). :)

[MiniMe]

6. Where in Maryland is your friend?

I was dug out yesterday, and so was my street. I took my mother home today, she was staying with me for this snow since she lost power over the weekend in the last snow. So I took Mom to the grocery store today, and then back home. I have been out and about and the roads are pretty good, if a plow has been by.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. that looks like our yard!

we are still not dug out yet

[salguine]

13. And I lived in Maryland all my life till last year. How do I miss this!?

[RamboLiberal]

14. Hope your friend gets out soon - at least she is stranded in

a heated house. Read some scary stories about motorists being stranded in Maryland this week including this one.

Chris Perry made it a mile down New Design Road in remote, rural Frederick County before the squalls hit Wednesday afternoon.

Winds suddenly topped 50 mph. Perry's blue Ford Explorer rocked from side to side. Three feet of snow was being whipped into an eight-foot drift on one side of the road and was creeping up around the Explorer's bumpers.

Perry could see his hood but little else in front of him. He pushed the V8 engine, shoving snow aside, backing up and then trying to muscle forward.

But he couldn't move. Perry, who was simply trying to get home from work in Poolesville, had become one of about 25 people stranded on Frederick's isolated roads when the ferocious blizzard hit hardest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021105046.html?hpid=topnews

When rescuers finally got to this guy they were surprised to find he was still alive.

[MilesColtrane]

15. I have the opposite problem.

I've been without heat and power for about 33 hours and have try and eat what's in the freezer before it goes bad.

I'll just put the contents of my fridge outside and try and keep animals away.

Too bad she's in Maryland and I'm in Texas, we could have a real party.