“Come on Irene, oh, I swear on my knees, at this moment, you mean everything!”
The one thing which most people don’t keep a good enough supply of is water. The last major hurricane we had in the Florida panhandle the power stayed off for 9 days.
We were lucky in that we had a creek running only about 50 yards from the house so we could get all the non potable water we wanted but you do get tired of toting it.
Drinking water is not as much of a problem as one might think. We had saved several gallons and along with soft drinks, milk etc. we never came close to running out. Of course Daddy had a generator to run the refrigerator and freezer.
A lot of people must have run out of water as the one thing every store seemed to sell out of was baby wipes. People were using them to take a rough bath.
One thing which surprised me was all the gas stations seemed to have working pumps. Maybe they had generators, I just don’t know but gas was no problem.
The worst problem was the heat. The central AC would not operate on generators. I was surprised how well my 85 year old father handled it tho.
Go on YouTube and find “Irene, Goodnight”. Great old tune.