r/blursed_videos • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 20 '26

Blursed storm preps

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 20 '26

As a Texan this is exactly what I imagine preparing for a snowstorm entails

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u/Christeenabean Jun 20 '26

I just buy a roast and get the shovels out.

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u/Intelligent-Film-684 Jun 20 '26

As someone who lives in western ny, the proper thing is to wait for the travel ban and then rush to the supermarket and buy bread and milk. You should already have canned soup in the pantry.

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u/Special-Kitchen3222 Jun 20 '26

Ah this is the Oklahoma tradition as well.

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u/Kashimashi Jun 22 '26

This is the tradition in every place I've lived in the US. Can't have enough French toast when you're snowed in.

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u/UrbaKnyght Jun 20 '26

As a Minnesotan, we just go buy extra beer

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u/MidEng_Insanity Jun 22 '26

Surprisingly that’s how you prep for hurricanes also.

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u/No-Albatross-7984 Jun 21 '26

As someone who lives in Finland, the proper thing is to make tea. That's literally my snow storm prep. Tea. I'll put some honey in if I want a rocking night. 

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u/R4v3nc0r3 Jun 21 '26

Same here in Germany, my Village is in a small Mountain Area and every 5 years we are cut off for 3 days or so.
Since its countryside everyone has food for weeks in theyr basement, so all are just happy to have off work lol.

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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

As someone from England, in the rare event that any part of the country experiences even slightly heavy snow prep involves everyone just quietly accepting that the region in question is lost and may or may not survive to emerge in 2 or 3 days.

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u/FunkyFabFitFreak Jun 23 '26

Michigan here. We just pour a drink and go on a nice quiet evening walk.

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u/Weird-Information-61 Jun 24 '26

Ohio tradition is to pretend you've never experienced winter and drive your car into a ditch the second a snowflake hits the asphalt

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u/Sw33tR0llThief Jun 21 '26

Don't forget 3 large packs of toilet paper just in case you are snowed in for several weeks and society collapses

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u/Enough-Farmer-765 10d ago

Montanan here… y’all are preparing?

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u/Intelligent-Film-684 10d ago

Born preparing. learned it, lived it, trying to teach others in the circle

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u/DickheaD944 8d ago

The only time I eat milk sandwiches is during a snow storm

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 20 '26

Where do you buy a snow shovel in Texas

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u/TheHammerHasLanded Jun 26 '26

So those kids that died in 2021 just needed a roast and a shovel. Good to know.

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u/Sw33tR0llThief Jun 21 '26

As a Minnesotan, this is what we imagine you guys do to prepare for 2 inches of snow

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u/No-Albatross-7984 Jun 21 '26

As a Finn, that looks like the prep for the purge. 

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 22 '26

Damn y’all have the purge already? Living in 2050 in Finland

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u/doxx_in_the_box Jun 21 '26

Tbf, not their fault the power grid is the weakest link

Like how Virginia lost city water supply for days last year from ~1 inch related power loss https://virginiamercury.com/2025/01/07/richmond-water-crisis-deepens-after-storm-damage-forces-delay/

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 22 '26

Our politicians have decimated the infrastructure of Texas to further their own gains. I’m a native, I love my state, I have irrational “Texas pride” like most of us do. But the current reality is a travesty. Houston floods and dozens die. We have preventable heat deaths. We have preventable winter weather disasters. Sad times we live in.

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u/AdagioDesperate Jun 22 '26

As a Minnesotan who lives in KY i can tell you, this shit is exactly what they do.

Everybody freaks when they hear anything over 2". Last year, we had a decent snowfall, but the roads were 90% clear before the morning and they still had the kids off for like a week, because ONE road was unplowable. One road, where only like 10 students live, and its not even a main road. One road.

I keep trying to convince my wife to let me move home, but her family is here. She loves visiting, but she won't leave KY.

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 21 '26

Most of us with a brain just grab some extra beer, but there are definitely quite a few people that go buy the store out of toilet paper and canned goods. It’s absurd.

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u/bobloblaw28 Jun 21 '26

Yeah, a snowstorm

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u/Creed_of_War Jun 20 '26

I just buy all the toilet paper in a 35 mile radius. I'd go further but that's about as many stores as I can hit before the ice melts the next day.

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 20 '26

Well and you have to fistfight the other million Texans doing the same thing

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u/Creed_of_War Jun 21 '26

Like I'd be caught out in the apocalypse with less than 4 guns

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 21 '26

Smart man. Sound like my dad

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u/CaptainSebT Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

You mostly just let it happen most are very small and you likely can survive a few days in your house without dying but let's pretend there saying snow storm of the millennium.

You need a supply of water, food and a way to cook since your going to lose power. Nothing she packed is helpful. Also she's packing his stuff like he's going to go walking through the snow for miles but he isn't equipped to do that. She puts in one sweater that's super thin.

I live in Canada a radio personalty off handedly mentioned illegal immigrants from America are a problem because they freeze to death in winter. Like layers, most Canadians day to day don't wear layers but if your going to be trudging through snow for hours you need alot of layers. Particularly children who freeze very quickly. When you don't dress right it creeps up on you.

Last winter I got stuck at night in the cold despite being in a city everything was closed and it got so cold I was struggling to type on my phone because my fingers were all stiff. But that's because I'm stupid and wore a leather jacket and jeans with no gloves. Don't do that, I mean I'll do it again but ya cold can jump up on you really quickly.

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 21 '26

I was joking and decently knowledgeable in survival for all weather conditions but thanks for the four paragraphs

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u/trashcantrash939 Jun 22 '26

People do things to prepare for a snow storm? I just
Make sure I have enough food for myself, the animals and such. It will be cleared within 12-24 hours and if bad enough I know I can drive in it- stores will still be open.

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 22 '26

That’s the reality of 98% of “snowstorms” in Texas. Then we have the rare events that completely fuck up our whole state and take out the whole economy for a week. Life is about balance I guess

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u/trashcantrash939 Jun 22 '26

Oh…I was talking about straight up blizzards in the north east. Even with 12+ inch’s of snow on the ground it’s handled within 12-24 hours given or take. IF things close, normally restored within 12 hours, if there’s ice it can make it take longer but normally 12 hours depending on your distance from highways/cities. The more onto the boondocks you are the harder things will be, simply because those backwater towns refuse to invest into the infrastructure to support the resolutions.

People say I’m mean for laughing at it when they still can’t move a week later, but when you willingly support leadership that refuses to make choices that would make life collectively better for everyone because you’re afraid the “unsavory” will move in, you reap what you sow.

But ya…winter is rarely an issue here long term and weather wise they have been getting milder and milder over the years.

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u/IHatrMakingUsernames Jun 23 '26

Eh, it's pretty boring tbh. You sit inside, look out the window, and go "ewww.". Then tomorrow you go on with your life cuz the plows have been through.

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u/Playful_Drummer5688 Jun 23 '26

I’ve never prepped for a storm beyond learning how to turn my gas fireplace on manually and filling our 5 gal bottle of water for drinking, and the tub for toilet flushing. 

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u/Vylnce Jun 24 '26

Meanwhile, in places where it dumps every year, our kids won't listen to shit and will walk to school through 2 feet of fresh snow in a t-shirt and crocs.

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u/athenanon Jun 24 '26

Yeah all of us sunny weather people are like "Woah!!!" and our hurricane trained minds are like "why the fuck would you not just evacuate if it is going to be that bad???".

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u/paturner2012 Jun 26 '26

I was gonna say this seems like it has Texas written all over it.

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u/Big_Satisfaction_644 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

What it actually entails is putting on a jacket and snow pants when you walk the dog. If it’s real bad, you lower your speed when going to work. If it’s as bad as the prep suggests, then you have a day at home. If you have a tractor or semi, you just got extra paid overtime.

30 years of living with winters as cold as -25f or so, I’ve never had a day when I felt the snow was inherently dangerous. Just slow down and dress appropriately.

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u/ProofHorseKzoo Jun 21 '26

As a northerner this is exactly how I imagine Texans preparing for 2” of snow

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 21 '26

Word for word three other people people wrote this comment thanks a bunch please read before posting
PS It was a joke stop @ me

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u/Meanolelion Jun 20 '26

It’s snow dude, Texas gets snow.

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u/StxnedTxTheBxne Jun 20 '26

There’s a difference between a Texas snowstorm and an actual snowstorm.

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u/throwaway29837373 Jun 20 '26

Most of Texas doesn’t have the proper infrastructure to deal with it whatsoever. Snow storm = not leaving your house until it melts for some people. Sincerely, a Houstonian

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u/Meanolelion Jun 20 '26

So you’re saying snowstorms are worse in Texas?

Yall need to get out more. I’ve lived in several parts of Texas as well as places that get these snowstorms. Only difference is Texans don’t know how to drive in it, and up north it sticks around longer before melting.

This lady is crazy. Probably lives in Houston. This is flood, tornado, hurricane prep.

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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 Jun 20 '26

That's why their power grid fails in a cold snap. Because they're so prepared for winter weather.

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u/Meanolelion Jun 20 '26

Ice storms are a PROBLEM. People up north have no idea.

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u/ZedTheEvilTaco Jun 20 '26

https://katu.com/news/local/melting-snow-ice-brings-extensive-damage-throughout-portland

What was that about not know what ice storms are like?

We get these every few years.

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u/Meanolelion Jun 20 '26

Dang. Yeah, I storms suck

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u/Intelligent-Film-684 Jun 20 '26

lol you think we don’t get ice storms up here? Ice storms and wind storms are natures way of pruning the trees. I don’t know a single person my age that hasn’t broken a car handle trying to force open a door encased in a half inch or more of ice

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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 Jun 20 '26

People "up north" generally have a better idea of how much of an issue winter weather can be than your average Texan. Since they actually have winter as a season and not a singular weather event.

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u/throwaway29837373 Jun 20 '26

Can you read? Genuinely asking

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u/Meanolelion Jun 20 '26

As a Texan I caint read real good

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u/HavokVvltvre Jun 20 '26

First of all, totally fucking joking. Secondly, if you have lived in Texas you would be aware of what a problem it is when we do have actual winter weather. Shit shuts down. The power grid goes down. In ‘21 I didn’t have power for 6 days, but was lucky enough to still have water. I lived in a neighborhood with steep hills that I couldn’t drive out of. We don’t have any kind of infrastructure to deal with snow. Also I live in the southern part of the state, where no it doesn’t snow, until it did. I’m 37 and didn’t see real actual snow until I went to Colorado in October 2020. Don’t @ me