"This is panic shopping, so bread, milk, a snow shovel in case our snow shovel breaks, " she said.

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He likened it to Southerners rushing out to stock up on bread and milk when they hear it might snow.

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Southern India's tropical climate invites use of coconut milk in recipes, while near the snow-topped Himalayas, you're not likely to find coconuts in the cuisine.

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He took the animals back to the shed, but by the next day realised that the mother did not have any milk following her two-week ordeal under the snow, which she had only survived by eating the bush and using the snow for water.

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