Report of the outside world

[bill_schubert]

Mixed results.  My first store was a Randalls since they typically don't have as many customers.  It is not as nice a store as HEB in almost every way but my thought is it might be better as a result of being less crowded.  It was not.  No meat.  No milk.  No eggs.  That was my first three things to get.  I did find some frozen food that Dana wanted I stocked up on long shelf life almond and oat milk.  And it was not crowded.  But I'd promised steak so

On to HEB.  Which was absolutely packed.  But they were restocking as fast as they could and, as I said yesterday, the butchers worked overtime to get meat on the shelves and I got some lovely steak that will match with the potatoes for a nice meal later today.  And they had milk and eggs.  I think they have learned from the previous outages and stocked what people want first.

I think this entire shelf was dumped with the electric outage and is on a delay for restocking

They had some empty shelves such as the above but the essentials were available.  Another amazing win for the leadership of the Texas HEB chain.

The roads went from dry to icy.  My experience from living up north came in handy approaching overpasses.  They were treacherous.  The smart car did fine.  Dana said I should take her Rav4 but I know the smart car better, know how it feels, how it drives and it was not iced up since I have it in the garage.  It did fine.  I lost focus approaching one bridge and did a little wiggle on the ice but not any worse than in any other car and with less mass I think the correction was easier.

All in all, it was an experience.  When masks are no longer unique or interesting in the middle of a pandemic venturing out after being stranded at home.

The Chinese curse that is not, apparently Chinese at all. 

Comments

[susandennis]

Interesting. I'm so glad you are melting.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Glad you survived the icy road. I wonder if your Covid numbers will drop, given more people probably stayed home. That would be a nice upside.

[texasts.livejournal.com]

Yeah... Well chinese or not, it HAS been an interesting week.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Glad you navigated the roads safely and able to pick up the items you needed the most! The closest grocery for my sister is actually Costco on Kelly Lane in Pflugerville. I admire HEB for their first rate management. They seem to be a step ahead of the competition in every weather crisis.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

My hisband never gets this, he whines that I should use his car but I prefer my Smart car because I know exactly how it is going to handle