A little off topic, but if you live anywhere in a "hurricane prone" area, and don't have hurricane supplies on hand, I'd suggest you stock up now.
After this big storm, and the devastation witnessed on TV, people will freak out if a storm is headed your way and the stores will be a madhouse.
You could save yourself a lot of headaches if you anticipate this, and just do your stocking up now, instead of waiting to hear if a storm is headed your way.
Intellegent people buy food that can be cooked with water like rice and beans. After all, hurricanes and floods produce water. A 25 pound bag of rice and beans will carry you through a long period of time and can be easily stored BEFORE the necessity to use it.
I watch with amazement each time a hurricane approaches out coastline as the "store panic" starts. Not only the grocery stores but at the lumber yards too.
We do something most don't. At the begining of hurricane season we simply buy the "staples" such as beans and rice and store them. Wood for the windows was cut, numbered and stored many years ago...no panic run to the lumber yard or grocery store each time. Have you ever wondered just where all of that wood goes after the hurricane threat each year and why they have to buy it again each time they are threatened?
I was always taught that there is no such thing as an emergency or accident. Both are due to lack of planning or attention, with very few and rare exceptions.
"A little off topic, but if you live anywhere in a 'hurricane prone' area, and don't have hurricane supplies on hand, I'd suggest you stock up now"
That's good advice for folks. I'm not myself in a hurricane area, but when you consider other reasons for problems -- tornadoes, earthquakes, possible hard winter (haven't heard long-term forecasts yet), even another attack on the country (I pray won't happen) -- it's a good idea for everyone to be prepared as best as possible.
I said on another thread....might be time for lots of folks to move out of the big cities and into small towns or rural areas (pick the ones where the population is not on welfare).
Even suburbs of major cities are at risk. In cases of disaster or unrest, we see how these "thugs" were able to roam all over without being stopped.