Floridians battling storm stress are turning to old friends and bad habits. Twinkies and doughnuts are flying off the shelves. Chocolate and liquor sales are up, too.
Psychiatric wards are bustling. Prayer is popular, too.
It's all part of coping with the internal darkness after - and before - the storm.
"It's been biblical, like living in Deuteronomy," said David Dashev, chief operating officer of mental health services for Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach. "There's plague, pestilence, floods. I'm wondering what I should wear for the locusts.
"I went down the comfort food aisle in Publix and came out with something like 18 kinds of Tostitos," he said.
