SNOWMAGEDDON! Milk, Bread, and Eggs: The Trinity of Winter-Storm Panic-Shopping: Why do people reliably stock up on the same things before they get snowed in? “This holy trinity of winter-storm preparedness is not some quirk of the nation’s capital—bread, milk, and eggs are popular panic-buys everywhere from Knoxville to New England.”
All my friends seemed to be stocking up on booze.