Remember last summer when hurricanes were chewing up chunks of Mexico and churning toward the Texas coastline? Remember the scenes on the evening news that showed long lines of people standing at grocery store check-out counters, their carts laden with such staples as canned meat and bottled water? Well, obviously those people knew that the storm was coming. They knew that they might not be getting out again to get groceries for a while, and they were laying in a supply of provisions to see them through the tough times ahead.