Not making light of the fact that there is a HUGE hurricane heading to Florida….

I am being kinda frivolous here…but there is some seriousness to the question:

Here in the Midwest, whenever there is a significant snowstorm forecast, it is tradition for everyone to buy supplies to make French Toast: The stores are denuded of Milk, eggs, butter and bread. No one knows why they should do so, they just follow the crowd…

I see similar patterns in Florida when there is a Hurricane forecast….apparently it is tradition that people drive their cars to a preset place and gather 8-10 sandbags.  Now, I am not sure what a few sandbags are good for…there are never enough to fully protect one’s home from flooding, it seems, but every single time there is a hurricane, they show people getting a few sandbags…about a trunk load….which isn’t really ever gonna be enough.. It ain’t gonna keep the water out of your house if there is feet of flooding, . (and they are predicting FEET of rain and 10 or more feet of storm surge  ….. . So those sandbags…Is it tradition or what?