I'm finding the same interesting thing here. City stores seem to be getting TP in, but the rural grocery stores I go to are stil out of tp, while being much better stocked on most other things. I would have thought rural populations would naturally have a bit more of that stuff stored at home for whatever.
Though I read in the local paper that many rural areas are complaining about city slickers both coming to their areas to "get away from the virus" and to hit the much, much smaller grocery stores for supplies the city stores are out of. Sort of what we (and many books, both fiction and non-fiction) often talk about as one result of a SHTF scenario.City dwellers leave for the boonies because they somehow think they're "living off the land", not recognizing people are already there and maybe not happy about an invading hoard.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article241524721.html
Part of my job is selling fishing/hunting licenses, ammo & long guns. I see a lot of driver licenses, especially over the last few weeks. I've been seeing licenses from towns over 100 miles from here, a lot from towns I've never heard of. More than the usual amount are from out of state.
Most of the long distance licenses are for fishing licenses, (they also represent a lot of ammo purchases). Not sure why, since the local fishing isn't all that great. There are a few lakes around, but there are also many other places to buy a fishing license much closer to the lakes than we are. I doubt that they're here for the lodging, again there is more lodging closer to the lakes and we don't have all that much lodging around here.
Probably 99% of the gun and/or ammo purchases are for one of three reasons; 1) I'm going to have to hunt my own food; 2) gotta protect my family/food/supplies/freedom/whatever from the ravaging hordes and/or .gov (state, fed or both depending on the individual); or 3) both 1 & 2.
And the paper aisle at WM is still empty. Frozen foods are down to maybe 5%. Veggies, meat & dairy are at ~50%. Ammo case is basically empty, I could count the available calibers/gauges without taking off my shoes. It was stocked with at least 20 boxes of asst. last night - the new stock was gone by noon today.
