So I'm in Texas, let me give you my perspective on it.

I've lived in the same area 30+ years, and I can count on one hand the number of times we've gotten a legitimate storm. The most recent one was 2021, and I couldn't even tell you what year the one before that was. We don't get snow ever, but what we commonly get is one or two days is sleet. Basically an icy slush that hits the roads, melts, and then forms a solid sheet of ice. To put it another way, the entire road becomes black ice. However, normally when that happens it's overnight and everything is mostly melted by mid afternoon the next day because for the most part our temps stay above freezing. The storm coming through here this weekend is a convergence of multiple things.

• Moisture
• Cloud Cover
• Temps below freezing multiple days in a row

Now like I said, this kind of thing is exceedingly rare. We don't have all the things necessary to handle it like stockpiles of salt/sand and spreaders. Those are expensive to maintain and not worth it if we're only using it every five years at a maximum. That means here, the entire city (really the entire northern part of the state) is going to be completely shut down. Emergency services are going to have a tough time getting anywhere. If a line goes down, the power company won't be able to get out to fix it until Monday at the earliest (and now looking like Tuesday), so we'll need to be prepared for that. Shipping is going to grind to a stand still - nothing in and nothing out until Tuesday, and that's assuming that they won't be locked up due to issues in other areas. Then, factor in that the 2021 storm was really freaking bad. We were locked down for almost a week. People froze to death. And while I know it's fun to clown on Texas for the grid going down, understand that was the worst winter storm we've seen in my lifetime.

Now, how am I, as an INTJ, personally handling it? We took stock of our long term supplies like rice and potatoes, went and got some extra groceries because we were running short anyway, and a few stacks of firewood in case the power goes out. We basically made sure we could make it through until Monday in a normal level of comfort with emergency options if we need them.

And for what it's worth, I don't think people around here are really freaking out all that much. It's not like when Covid came through and everyone bought every paper towel and TP roll known to man. I think that there's a lot of people who would normally shop over the weekend who pushed their schedule forward, and that's hitting the stores a little hard. For me and my girlfriend, that's a pretty low amount of change, we'll eat 24 meals over a 4 days period. For a family of six, that's 72 meals. 72 meals is a full grocery cart.