Everything is the same as yesterday except that the rain has stopped and the sun is out. Oh, and roads are open in Lexington County. So I crossed the river and hit Aldi, Publix, and a health food store and everything was weirdly normal. Yesterday, late yesterday, people were posting pictures on Facebook of stripped shelves at Publix in town. Today, it's like nothing happened at all. This in spite of the fact that Lexington (the town more than the county) was also hard hit. The Old Mill lake's dam broke. The Old Mill, which became a shopping and entertainment complex, was flooded and partly destroyed. The best used bookstore in this area (or certainly the most extensive) is presumably ruined. So kudos to the other retailers of Lexington County. It's weird that everything is so normal but I'm certainly grateful.
The interesting part of shopping is trying to figure out how to live without trustworthy water. I usually have a simple approach to gluten free living: meat, beans, steamed vegetables, plus rice, potatoes or noodles. Unfortunately, only the first of those is doable without trustworthy water. So I was finding canned vegetables and beans with as little added salt as possible (trickier than you'd think) and frozen meals that are gluten-free, dairy-free and soy-free (about as tricky as you would think). I finally decided that the wise move for rice would be to make a sort of risotto, plumping the rice using low-sodium boxed broth. But what delighted me most about the normality mentioned above was, well, if this doesn't work, I go back and try something else. It's nice living in a country with bounteous supermarkets.
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