“Ever time a storm comes, it looks like that picture out as people are out, in the teeth of the storm, panic buying, stripping the shelves bare. Why they wait until the last minute is beyond me.”
It’s the same here. Every hurricane, stores are stripped bare and all gasoline is gone from stations. My car is always at least 1/2 full and at the first sign that a hurricane might come into Galveston, I fill it up. All I buy for a hurricane is two bags of ice and I get that at a small store that people overlook. They are hitting the big stores.
One would think these people would get the message to stock some food and water, but they don’t. Water is gone, batteries are bought out and candles are bought out. Plywood is gone. Generators are gone. The next time we have a hurricane, the same thing happens.
I don’t need fuel for a generator, don’t have a noisy generator, I use a solar panel to recharge batteries and have battery fans to stay cool as our hurricanes happen in very hot weather in Texas. Rechargeable batteries run a security system inside and outside the house. I’ll have pure water as long as an emergency lasts even if it is years. I can be warm and I can be cool.
Have I overdone it? Some people may say yes and I say to them tough cookies, I’ll prepare the way I want and they can do the same. I don’t have to think about preparing because I’ve already done it so I don’t have to worry. I have peace of mind. I have insurance for whatever happens.
Just from curiosity: how high is your abode above sea level? When my brother drove us around Galveston Island last May and was yarning on hurricane damage we could see how low lying some places were.
I’m 2800 ft above the Gulf and am slightly less concerned about Algore’s visions myself :)