The state of H-E-B 1/21/2026 late night for winter storm

As much as I hate Ted Cruz, the truth is he’s coming back before the storms. News ran with his flight story but fail to follow up with the fact he’s coming back.

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kernalrom@reddit

tED cRuZE. Whatever. He has nothing to do with this.

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With even the smallest amount of context, we can determine that TC leaves the state when the grid is at near failure. I refuse to downvote you without actual explanation.... but.... think of Snowball... the sweet pup that their family left in the freeze a few years ago. Have no empathy, fine, but will you really feel nothing for poor Snowball?

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Dalentx1968@reddit

If you are a person that panic buys you are a selfish POS

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poopoopants7@reddit

People still hoarding toilet paper?? 😂

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Bbkingml13@reddit

You clearly don’t have ibs lol

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poopoopants7@reddit

lol I actually have IBSD. I use a specific probiotic that helps it!

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willowy0121@reddit

Your name 🤣

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Bbkingml13@reddit

Omg I’m dying, I didn’t notice your username hahaha

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cvsmith122@reddit

A good half of all that was purchased will be thrown away as well, people over reacting.

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dallaswatchdude@reddit

I tried to go to HEB yesterday, pulled into the parking lot and pulled right back out, it was a zoo at like 2pm. People think they're going to eat a loaf of bread a day for 4 days all of a sudden.

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Ok_Comparison9762@reddit

Thats because they are lol the time they spend jaw jacking on a normal day at work they will be hoping the power stays on and binge watch a show or 2... hell i got an extra loaf myself becuse a jaw of strawberry preserves hates to see me coming! lord knows im gonna be gaming and making sammiches EARLY in the morning!!!

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Tiiimmmaayy@reddit

I was gonna go this morning cause I actually needed groceries. Thank god I didn’t. Went to Kroger off of Josey and 121 and there was plenty of everything. Nothing was sold out.

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AwkwardAd5138@reddit

I was there too. A zoo!!!! Left without buying anything and just went to Kroger, which was stocked and not crowded.

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disaster308@reddit

Same. Got into the parking lot and immediately left and went to Tom Thumb. Stocked and not crowded at all.

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mrcmcpro@reddit

Exactly same, but 4p. It is wild seeing people act like this, but no surprise.

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donutb@reddit

There’s a specific demographic of people that shop at HEB that causes them to run out for these events. My Walmart and winco weren’t hit this bad

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Ashur_Bens_Pal@reddit

Exactly. While the morning idiots were pillaging HEB I was a mile away at the Coit and Spring Creek Walmart picking up a few things. Checkout wait time? 0 minutes.

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In_Lymbo@reddit

I was at the Parker/Preston Walmart Neighborhood Market. Now granted, the store busier than usual (usually, it's a ghost town), but parking was relatively smooth, they were almost fully stocked \*AND\* same thing, virtually not wait time to check out.

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FluckDambe@reddit

Just curious, what demographic did you think of? My mind went to "idiots".

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JaimeLannister10@reddit

That sounds about right.

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Sophias_dad2665@reddit

Winter storm? I saw guys buying generators!

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Nat_C222@reddit

Start going to your neighborhood grocery stores if you’re still needing to shop right now. My local Kroger was almost fully stocked today at 3pm

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bricicrazythings@reddit

It’s just a few days. Do people really not already have enough groceries? Like you never buy 40 loaves of bread, but suddenly you need that much bread? 🤷‍♀️

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Jayndroid@reddit

Nooo shit. We went to Central Market for our normal stuff. People are nuts

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Far_Finding_577@reddit

Why the F does everyone need so much toilet paper, bread and eggs every time there is a storm ???

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flilmawinstone@reddit

People are ridiculous about HEB! I don’t get it and avoid HEB due to the crowds

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Starterlogg20@reddit

It’s overrated and overpriced

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drumsticks_baby@reddit

Most of these people have enough canned food in their pantry they’ve never touched that would last them 2 weeks.

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Icy_Butterscotch5570@reddit

Im gonna clear out my hominy stockpile this weekend.

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drumsticks_baby@reddit

Creamy!

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stocknudez@reddit

I alway find it funny what people don’t buy

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thetruckboy@reddit

I have a pic on my phone if the meat section from the day lockdowns were announced. All beef gone. All chicken gone. Pork, seafood and veggies, gone.. The perfectly untouched section of vegan imitation meat remained.

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Cloudy_Automation@reddit

Nobody's that desperate

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Texanlivinglife@reddit

Hey.. I see some chips. Can you send those to SW Missouri. Our shelves are the same. 🥹

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Delicious_Hand527@reddit

I went to Kroger last night- it was completely normal. the shelves were stocked as normal.

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TX727@reddit

It's ridiculous. It's also the mentality of "I better buy it before anyone else does".

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downtime37@reddit

So the shelves are not empty.

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Responsible_Job_991@reddit

I grew up in Plano then I moved to Denver for a year and a half. I’m back in Plano now. 90% of you would not last in any cold environment and it shows. Guess what in Denver? Or any other place with regular snow? You wake up to your car piled up with snow and you STILL have to go to work. The day doesn’t stop. It baffles me that Texans are this skiddish about the weather amongst 20 other things.

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hamlet_d@reddit

So damned stupid. 2-3 days. Like literally if you buy groceries every week, you need to buy a couple of days extra worth. Or if you buy every two weeks (like the wife and I), you may not even have to go to the store. >People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. > > --Agent K

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wha2les@reddit

That's what they said in 2021. "No power outages" to "rolling blackout" to "rolling blackouts means roll between permanently out to back on". No harm in stocking up more than normal to prepare.

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hamlet_d@reddit

one key difference: duration. 2021 had a freeze on the order of a week or more, mostly in line with forecasts. This? 4 days maybe, most forecasts saying it really doesn't get bad until early Saturday morning and might lift Monday or possibly Tuesday.

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ekimmd24@reddit

40 hours this storm and 2021 was 80 hours of below freezing

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DisgruntledTexan@reddit

Gonna be below freezing from midnight on Saturday to sometime on Tuesday, assume noon that’s 84 hours.

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Pixel_Knight@reddit

Do people just not ever go shopping until there is a storm? Well be snowed in for a weekend - not the rest of the month. Why are people stocking up like they’ll never get a chance to buy anything ever again? I have never understood this mentality.

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et_the_geek@reddit

You know a bunch of that food is going to go to waste.

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Heart_Same@reddit

Freaking out over maybe a day being stuck

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BlazinAzn38@reddit

Lots of people are weekend grocery shoppers, if the weather is bad enough we can’t shop this weekend so we have to buy everything a few days early

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ColdFlamesOfEternity@reddit

Agreed. This isn't panicking buying, this is people buying a 1.5 week supply instead of a week and half a week early. Grocery stores have fast turn over. Any spike quickly depletes stock. Sure, there is probably a little panic buying out there but we haven't really seen pictures of that.

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hamlet_d@reddit

Stores don't empty for some people buying just .5 weeks worth of groceries. And the truth? If you buy groceries every week (and your not just subsisting), I guarantee you have enough to last you through this. We buy groceries every 2 weeks (payday) so I didn't even bother going to the store since this is our off week.

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BlazinAzn38@reddit

I plan meals through Saturday breakfast. I’m sure I technically have enough calories lying around my pantry and freezer to feed my family but I don’t want to have to serve them buttered egg noodles and frozen peas for 3 meals straight if I don’t have to.

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Farazod@reddit

Depends on your shopping habits and what you eat. Fresh vegetables, fruit, and meats or do you eat frozen? Eat a lot of chicken or fish or do you eat mostly pork and beef? I went yesterday and did our normal shopping. Nobody was stocking up like crazy, maybe a case or two of water they normally wouldn't get. Maybe some baking supplies to pass the time inside, but that's it. There's two major things going on. First is time compression of moving weekend shoppers into the normal Wednesday/Thursday shoppers. Secondly it's everyone meal planning on not going out to eat this weekend. Go to HEB on a Sunday late afternoon, it's pretty hammered and the shelves look like locusts hit them.

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Astrophizz@reddit

I'm pretty sure I saw some panic-stuffed carts today and one guy treating a gallon of milk like a wad of cash 😂 but I didn't take any photos

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IPlay4E@reddit

Yep. We bought groceries Monday and I know we’re not going grocery shopping this coming Monday so I had to go do a small restock so we can last till next Thursday.

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Astrophizz@reddit

I saw people buying multiple weeks worth of water, milk, and toilet paper today. I saw a guy who had to step away from his cart but grabbed one of his gallons of milk like someone was going to steal it out of his cart while he was a few feet away lol

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picircle@reddit

Why waste money!! Go to Cancun instead.

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earthworm_fan@reddit

People are so stupid. It's fucking 2 days... maybe. You can get by with the shit you already have lmfao

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TG2020GRC@reddit

I work for Sam's Club meat department and its so crazy how many people are panick buying. Grabbing 4 cases of 40 count bottled water, multiple packs of toilet paper. Then when you tell customers that youre out of product they're mad at you for not having it like the store should've known idiots would mass buy and leave nothing for those who actually need those products.

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sienrfsh@reddit

All that for .5 inches of snow that melts the next day…

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Dabduthermucker@reddit

Ice, not snow.

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Nearby-Oil-8227@reddit

People need something else to do other than feed into sensationalism about a short-term weather event. I get needing items for 1-2 days while it’s dangerous to drive, but this is an extreme example illustrating just how many idiots there are. I went to Market Street tonight where I live to buy a few things in case it’s dangerous to drive this weekend. Despite what the sensational photos and news reports show, they had plenty of selection of essential items. A few things were definitely gone, but no mass empty shelves… had no problem buying eggs butter milk etc.

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jasoncirilo@reddit

Kroger on Legacy and Independence was fully stocked this morning.

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JonAyer1@reddit

They’re not generating revenue with those shelves empty.

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Current_Mess_9586@reddit

The Kroger at DNT and Parker was well stocked and restocking as fast as they could as of 6pm tonight 1/22....

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Plantersnutz@reddit

Ridiculous

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carabear85@reddit

Why?!

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xensoldier@reddit

Wallmart in I-30 was packed last night, I went there for cleaning gloves and bags of teas lol

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diamaunt@reddit

stupid people tricks.

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TheDutchTexan@reddit

LOL We don't go to HEB on a normal day if we can help it. The Tom Thumb we go to was fully stocked with everything. Sure, things were low but there was plenty of choice still there. And that was the "snackies" run we did. We got our necessities a week before because we knew people would end up being stupid.

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ekimmd24@reddit

Just think this is just a storm what if shit really hit the fan, OMG!

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aek82@reddit

The forecast shows .1 - .3 inch of ice.

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CelinaAMK@reddit

It’s going to snow. Not a zombie apocalypse. Texas always cracks me up.

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SalamanderTasty1807@reddit

I did a grocery pickup at Walmart. I don't have the patience, lol. Walmart off Coit and Mapleshade is completely out milk & water.

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No-Sweet8107@reddit

Heb in south Texas was packed and full of groceries.

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sienrfsh@reddit

Yeah but you gotta live in south Texas 😂🫵

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No-Sweet8107@reddit

It’s only a 5 hour drive! Lol. I was supposed to be up there this weekend but I didn’t want to get stuck up there for a week or two

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No-Sweet8107@reddit

Seriously though yall be safe even though Dallas is better prepared for the weather the roads can still be dangerous.

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IrishPeligro@reddit

Yeah but just look at all that Velveeta 🧀

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hr4ster97@reddit

Was just there. Lines to check out when over halfway to the back of the store

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LowerSeat2712@reddit

I grew up in Chicago. This is a uniquely southern behavior lol

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OSUBonanza@reddit

I lived in Columbus, OH for 6 years and this happened all the time before a big snowstorm.

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More_Carly@reddit

Meanwhile Kroger was completely stocked, lol.

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KrisVinesGames@reddit

All the panic buying for 2 days worth of dealing with a storm.

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KrisVinesGames@reddit

All the panic buying for 2 days worth of dealing with a storm.

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No-Sweet8107@reddit

I thought about buying 6 months worth of toilet paper just to be funny

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NolanisHere420@reddit

My local Walmart in the Princeton area is looking the same way, but they’re getting a restock.

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kernalrom@reddit

Idiots

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Snowvid2021@reddit

And yet we still question if people are a stupid as they appear. In the words of George Carlin, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.".

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KoutaFox@reddit

DFW…3 days of winter weather 🤦🏼‍♂️ Literally every other state…still goes to work

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zatchstar@reddit

this is crazy. it will be totally fine by tuesday at the latest.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

At least they didn’t drop things all over the floor like they did at Target 😒

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texanchris@reddit

The most shocking thing I see is the velveeta is refrigerated

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BerryLanky@reddit

You can’t blame them. We are looking at two to three days of bad weather. You have to make sure you are prepped for the storm. No getting out until Monday.

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Lurcher99@reddit

I mean, if you don't have a pantry that last more than 3 days, I feel for you. I could never be a European and go shopping every day.

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ColdFlamesOfEternity@reddit

Most people do a weekly shopping trip on the weekend. That is out this week, so they need to do it a little early and a little extra. Having the weekend shopping compacted into Wednesday and Thursday will quickly empty shelves. On average grocery stores only carry about three days of stock on hand. Obviously that differs on food type and how big the store is, but supply will always look a little thin if people have to shop early.

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Temporary_Nail_6468@reddit

I went normal grocery shopping yesterday. Mostly because our pet rabbits need fresh lettuce for the weekend. We could be snowed in for a month and the humans aren’t running out of food in my house. Might get boring, but not starving.

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Career-Acceptable@reddit

Yeah make sure you have plenty of ground beef and milk in case the power… oh shit

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Career-Acceptable@reddit

oh shit oh fuck i forgot to load up on… Ground beef?

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SpuddMeister@reddit

I was in Plano one at 10am. The line to checkout started in the back by the eggs section. It took me about 45 minutes. I’m sure it was much longer as the day goes on.

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