We have the canned goods, the dry goods, the water filter, the ammo, an emergency trunk filled with everything you can think of—drugs, first aid, lanterns, etc.
But I’m sitting here in the dark for hours after a transformer blew in our small village. Totally failed our dry run. I can’t get the lanterns working. Our batteries seem corrupted and I don’t have the right kind of batteries in some instances. And I need a lantern that uses another kind of energy too.
Big fail! I’m off to Home Depot when the lights come on to truly get prepared. Glad this happened today. I thought we were in good shape. Didn’t make it an hour.
Buy a used IBC container that had molasses or some other food grade material in it. Clean it out well, and then use it for rain catch. Then use it to fill an alexapure or lifestraw community filter
https://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-Community-High-Volume-Water-Purifier/dp/B07D4NH3MB/ref=sr_1_28?sr=8-28
Or make your own but keep in mind it has to be substantially bigger and not sure it will filter the same stuff as the others (viruses...cryptosporidium)