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yeah, couple of days without Internet, people get reallllly edgy. *laugh

I put a whole bunch of hurricane stuff in a box after Rita - knife, tape, plastic bags, G+A, flashlight and a whole bunch of batteries. This time, I just pulled it out and I was ready to go. So I thought. My wife reminded me of "gas grill" and propane cans, which came really handy. Even during the hot weather, still nice to have warm food. I am going to put some more stuff in the box.

Apple last much longer than peach. :-)

My standard emergency food is 1.5 can of salmon mixed with olive oil and an apple.

1. must have a land line. Cell phones are useless during this period. Still remembered that i argued with my wife that we should go completely without land line in the new century of technology. Man, was I wrong!!! I was RIGHT to get a regular old style phone that does not need battery.
2. need a bigger UPS battery to charge cell phone and blackberry
3. need a radio that requires little battery power and last long time
4. need some multi-vitamin
5. Blackberry is handy to check information but need to be charged.
6. more water and batteries, never thought power outage could last more than a week.
7. having a gun is handy. It never occurred to me that calling 911 would be such a huge problem during/after hurricane. Having two, if you can.