Are You People For REAL?

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My wife and I are transplants to southern Illinois (near St. Louis) from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it will simply NEVER get old to us when snow falls here and people just literally go nuts. For us, it is like a comedy that never ends. For whatever reason, when snow falls in southern Illinois people just PANIC. It's like the end of the world has just been announced or something. Gas lines look like a throw back to the Carter Administration back in the 1970's, and stores empty out as though Armageddon has just been announced to be a very real and imminent thing. We got about 8 inches of snow last night and into this morning, and this is just ONE shelf at our local grocery store when we visited to do our normal weekend grocery shopping. I had several other pictures but of course could only pick one for this post. People literally wiped the store clean of lettuce, green peppers, potatoes, meat, lunch meat, cheese, eggs, bread, milk, flour... Even the Parmesan cheese was gone and so was the vegetable oil. I swear to you. The ENTIRE case of frozen pizzas were completely wiped out. There was not a single frozen pizza to be found in the store. They even wiped out the brownies in a box, and a display of blueberry muffins. Granted, our area gets an average of 17 inches of snowfall a year, and so 8 inches in a day is a major "event" for these people. But REALLY people? Really? You had to wipe out the VEGETABLE OIL? I am sorry to say but my wife and I simply cannot stop laughing. It's just too funny to us. When you are used to sometimes 200 inches of snowfall in a year, you just wonder how these people would EVER survive in Wisconsin. Let alone Buffalo, New York or Alaska for that matter. You cannot make this crap up.