You listed the need for gas to get to ATM machines. Cash on hand is another basic item on the hurricane list.
You are correct. But there are poor people there too and they may have started out with only 50$ cash--which goes fast when you gas is $4 a gallon and you can actually get it. Remember, many of them had migrated a little farther north to get away from storm (a couple of counties) and came back home after the storm to check on their things. That costs money also. But this is not about MY preparedness. It wasn't me, it was family. My husband's and mine. I really have no idea exactly what they did/didn't have----as far as cash.