As for shuttering the windows, you can get pre-cut plywood and drill it into the house instead of nailing it. Also, there are companies that make some sort of clip that supposedly keeps the wood on during hurricanes, but I've never used it.
Is tomorrow's question "Earthquake kits"?
Lots of bottled drinking water, canned food rations with portable cooking stove (don't use it inside), a gun to fend off the looters (but that's just me), portable radio, flashlights, blanket and pillow, spare batteries, extra change of clothes. Of course I doubt you have much to worry about in VA.
I'm originally from central Virginia, and I think the chance of needing to put plywood over your windows practically zero. You might want to just prepare for an extended power outage or flooding.
Even Camille, which went right through us, didn't cause any broken windows that I remember.
Securing plywood? Down here, we use double-headed nails- the kind you use in concrete formwork. The first head prevents driving it too deep to pull easily, the second allows you to extract it with a claw hammer.