Keep a flashlight flash drive with all your files, all your photos, at all your music. Software comes with the computers you buy after the event. Flash drives should be stored off site and updated at least once a year probably every 6 months if you’re heavily involved with lots of file activity.
Keep canned beans in the cupboard for emergencies because you don’t have to cook it and they’ll last quite a while even without refrigeration once opened. Just about everything else requires a heat source which could be difficult.
Safe drinking water is the most important. If your house is still standing and you need to flush your toilets use your swimming pool above ground and ground if it’s still exists. Know how to purify water with the ditch method.
Know how to start a fire from scratch without a fire starting device. It’s a good recreational activity until you get it down to a science. Fire Starting devices includes magnifying glasses ...etc you need to learn how to create friction & start smoking up some tinder.
Fire starters are not tinder. BTW a magnesium sparking rod is cool. So us a megger or some 9v’s and 0000 steel wool.
Don’t have any fire starters? Vaseline on cotton balls stuck away in old medicine containers work great. So does cooking oils on a paper towel. Keep tarps handy, you might be sleeping under one. Garden tools help alot.
I know this article is just talking about computer files but I figured a little extra info during Hurricane Season might be useful.
Maintaining 98.6° Fahrenheit is critical.
I have AT LEAST a year of canned food. While they might not be as palatable past the use-by date, they are edible, but I also have a store of multivitamins to supplement the nutrients they lack.
Side benefit: They also aid with butt secks.
and swap out your 10-round magazines for 30-round magazines.