Fill up your bathtub with clean water; you can use some for drinking if need be, but mostly it's so you can flush your toilet should the water be shut off. No electricity = no power to the pumps at the water main station.
As much light as you can get. Batteries, small solar-powered lamps, whatever. A generator is great but you can use those things if you don't have one.
Have some books to read or something else to do to pass the time.
Set your phone to "text only" to save the battery. Try to talk to people well outside the storm zone who can get you good info on what's going on. You will be in something of a blackout and the rumours will fly. Verify everything!
Be careful of who's wandering around afterwards. Looters love to move in right after the storm and see what they can get.
Fill up your bathtub with clean water; you can use some for drinking if need be, but mostly it's so you can flush your toilet should the water be shut off. No electricity = no power to the pumps at the water main station.
As much light as you can get. Batteries, small solar-powered lamps, whatever. A generator is great but you can use those things if you don't have one.
Have some books to read or something else to do to pass the time.
Set your phone to "text only" to save the battery. Try to talk to people well outside the storm zone who can get you good info on what's going on. You will be in something of a blackout and the rumours will fly. Verify everything!
Be careful of who's wandering around afterwards. Looters love to move in right after the storm and see what they can get.
Sage advice! Thank you!