(12-08-2022, 09:32 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-08-2022, 12:44 PM)mikesez Wrote: That was exactly my frustration with the first few hurricanes I went through.  If you know it will take 5 days to restore power, you can plan for that.  But if you think there's a good possibility power could be restored in 2 days, you don't commit to those 5 day plans.  You get stuck in this mentally frustrating in between world, not sure what you should do.  Fortunately now I have enough resources that it doesn't bother me if food goes bad or if I'm stuck choosing between nonperishables or restaurant food for 3 meals a day, and I have multiple weeks worth of clean clothes and dishes.  College me didn't have any of those things.  Today I can take a power outages day by day.  Twenty years ago I could not.

Our major weak spot was lack of a generator. That has been rectified. I bought one Tuesday that will support our fridge/freezer, deep freezer, fans, lights and more, but most importantly my husband's CPAP machine. Dude can't sleep without it. 

We can recoup if we lose our freezer and fridge of food. We have plenty of clothes to wear. We have rain barrels of water to flush our toilets, food I prepped and pressure canned, soups from the store, plenty of other stuff we need. But why should we have to recoup anything when we can be better prepared in the first place? Or hope restaurants are open to feed us? Food trucks were the major source of meals because they run on generators so they were perfect for that but they can prep only so much food at a time. 

What is stressful is the things we don't have control of like prescriptions that need to be filled but can't be. My husband has bad asthma and has to have an inhaler. Or elderly parents who aren't prepped at all and it falls on us to make sure they're squared away.

It’s stuff like this, and more, I bought freeze dried foods that last 25 years.  It wasn’t cheap, I really shouldn’t have done it.  But, the 3 of us can eat for 3 months if need be.  I’m guessing it’s more so 2, but still.  Wife wasn’t happy I spent the money, but I want to cover our butts.  I’m glad things are looking up now

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