Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US

. . .Grocery stores are quickly running out of supplies as frantic customers stock up ahead of the Arctic blast and subsequent snowstorm expected to barrel across the country.

Forecasters warned that the weather system, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, will send many cities’ temperatures plummeting well below zero — and could dump anywhere from one to two feet of snow in some parts of the eastern US.

Megan Monroe-Evans, an Alabama resident, shared a startling video on TikTok showing her local grocery store’s barren refrigerators.

“The weather man mentioned a possibility of ice and snow and this is what we here in the south do… buy all the milk, bread and eggs. Like WTF,” she wrote in the caption.

She hoped that the “panic buying” was “just a south thing” — which, so far, seems to be ringing true.

@kym.adams Do you panic buy? #groceryshopping #grocerystore #momlife #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive ♬ As It Was (Instrumental) – KPH

Similar videos were posted by fretful customers at stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Virginia, but very few from states in the Northeast that could be buried under up to a foot of snow over the weekend. (Read more from “Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US” HERE)

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