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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15485091/Frenzied-panic-buying-winter-storm-trees-EXPLODE.html

Panic buyers have begun to strip the shelves of grocery stores
as a historic storm forecast to be the coldest in American
history barrels down on 200 million people.

Storm Fern is forecast to bring temperatures of -50f and up to
24 inches of snow to much of the United States from Friday -
and many of those in its path are stocking up.

Megan Monroe-Eaves shared footage online of her local Walmart
in Cullman, Alabama, which had its dairy section raided prior
to her arrival.

A long row of largely empty fridges in the supermarket were
seen in the video, which she captioned: 'My local Walmart
because someone mentioned snow and ice.

'Time for milk sandwiches. I'll never understand panic buying,
please tell me this is just a south thing.'

Another woman, known online as Jen George, posted a video outside
of a grocery store in North Texas and explained how panic buyers
were out in force on Monday.

She said: 'It's Monday and people are out there packing there carts
out already, and I'm thinking lets keep some for us and other people.

. . .

The super-deep snow is for a tad further north. In northern
Alabama and such there's a major ICE storm forecast - the
kind that can pull down all the power lines and tree limbs.
Ice is worse than snow. They could be blacked-out and hemmed
in for weeks.

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