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Things that one cannot find for love nor money here at the moment: bottled water and any batteries in sizes other than AA or AAA. I do have to wonder about people stockpiling gallons of milk though. Sna? I'm failing to see the appeal of having two and a half gallons of rancid milk sitting around if we do end up losing power.

I confess that I wasn't taking the whole hurricane thing particularly seriously until I looked at the tracking maps that show the center of the storm passing, er, relatively close to here Thursday night. (Update: they've shifted it back off to the west as of this morning.) Should be an exciting evening. =) The only thing I'm worried about really is the power; our power will go off if you just look at it wrong, so I'm expecting that it'll disappear at some point. I think tomorrow I'll try to figure out how to waterproof my leaky office, see if anyone in the state has C cells, and try to figure out what we have food-wise that doesn't require refrigeration and isn't too scary to contemplate consuming.

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The Homo Despot by me had flashlights and C and D batteries today. They also had some bottled water. Do you want me to make an early AM Home Depot run for you, before I go to work. I don't have to be in the office til noon. The catch is, I wouldn't be able to get the stuff to you til sometime around nine PM tomorrow, unless you picked it up at my office in Arlington.

Thanks for the offer. =) I didn't dare try Home Despot yesterday as I couldn't get anywhere near it. I'll try the one in Manassas on the way home tonight and see if they've got batteries.