UPDATE my grocery order arrived nearly intact; I guess I’m fortunate that my fellow Hill Countrians’ deep-freeze prep tastes don’t run to poncey foodie crap like smoked salmon and brussels sprouts. The saintly farm hand who picked up my stuff did report that our rural supermarket was a total mob scene, that bottled water and toilet paper were sold out, and that the whole town had apparently lost its entire damn mind. Northerners may laff, but in these parts we are scarred for life by the TX power grid failure of ‘21. #txwx