ORLANDO, Fla. — The parking lot at a Walmart in Metrowest was packed with customers Saturday afternoon, many hustling to find any leftover cases of water. But by the time they arrived, the shelves had long been cleared.
“We don’t have any more,” an employee said to them customers. “Come back later, we don’t have any more.”
The situation was the same at other stores nearby, as people rush to ready themselves for Tropical Storm Ian, which recent forecast models predict could strike Florida as a hurricane. Among them was a Target store near Millenia having very few gallon bottles of water left, as signs on the shelves limited purchases to four cases or bottles per customer.
