Three weeks is a joke. Many FRiends have enough for more than three months without even trying. On day one, you knew food was going to be short on the island so by now y’all could be harvesting home gardens. A small milk crate sized 1 foot cube container will hold 32 15 oz of canned food. IOW, 32 cans take up one square foot of space. Everyone has space under their beds. At .50 per can for veggies, that’s $16 of insurance. Or $32 of insurance for cans of chili. Neither has to be heated. It might not be fun, but one crate of each would last a month for one person.
PR Hospitals and factories may need electricity but homes don’t. Gasoline can be sold out of trucks, electrical pumps are not a necessity. No one NEEDS tv or internet. Foil and cardboard will make a solar oven for cooking without electricity. PR doesn’t need a/c or heat with temps in the 80s during the day and falling to the 40s at night.
It was freezing here in TX this morning at 7 when I opened the backdoor for the furbabies and it’s been open ever since. Temp now at lunchtime is 48. In our truly
sweltering hot summers, I don’t turn on the a/c until it’s constantly in the 90s. We didn’t have a/c installed until ‘94 so it’s a convenience, not a necessity.
The three weeks suggestion is based on my recent experience with hurricane Maria. It took that long for the gasoline and diesel shortage to be resolved, for potable water to be restored in most places (well, many places), for supermarket chains to start moving merchandise in an acceptable fashion, and for roads to be cleared to allow for all that. No utility power had been restored in a significant way by then and most people and businesses were relying on backup generators.
And this was on an island 1,000 miles from the mainland.