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Bread Scarce on Store Shelves

Bread was scarce at a Bloom grocery store on Va. 610 in North Stafford on Friday night in advance of Hurricane Irene. (Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

While it’s seen longer lines at Christmastime, Sam’s Club in Woodbridge was still bustling with shoppers looking to stock up before the arrival of Hurricane Irene.

On order and going fast was bottled water stacked on pallets in the rear of the store. Cereal and other non-perishable foodstuffs were flying off the shelves. So were large bundles of toilet paper –– known as a staple of a winter storm now an item they must have for the approaching storm from the tropics.

Outside, drivers waited in long lines to fill up their gas tanks.

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