Holy Price Gouging, Batman.

We usually buy jugs of purified water for drinking anyway. Fifty-eight cents a gallon. Okay, tonight, all of those are gone at Walmart, but ya can have a flat of twelve one-quart water bottles (three gallons) for twelve bucks.

I've gotten calls from FL, NJ, and WA inquiring about this storm. We're only gonna get rain, which we need. Maybe some hefty 40-mile-an-hour wind, they say. That's any winter day on the ND prairie, only with crystals of snow whipping into your face, I realize. Ooh. Hey, the way my de ja vu has been lately, I can feel that.

There are, like, four gallons of water on top of the fridge anyway, just about a whole flat of water bottles, and we stopped off at the package store, to get me a bottle of Captain Morgan Parrot Bay. In the case of serious rain and flash flooding and can't get to work, I am taken care of.