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[quote=Anonymous]My husband works emergency management / disaster relief for FEMA. Plus we love camping and backpacking, and our boys are in scouts. Be Prepared!
So what do we have? Canned food - tuna fish, soups, canned veggies, canned beans, etc. I buy mostly low/no sodium. At any point in time, we probably have 2 dozen cans of food, if not more.
Pasta and rice. Dried fruits.
Bottled water.
Those flavor packets for water (like propel).
Bags of coffee grounds and a French press.
We have no less than 4 small / personal backpacking stoves, and 2 larger “campout” style gas stoves. 
We also have multiple solar powered batter packs. Nothing to power the house, but enough to keep cell phones charged.
We do have a small generator. Never had to use it, my husband powers it up about once a year. Thought we would use it to run the refrigerator if we lost power for extended amount of time.
Before getting the generator, we have lost power during bad storms (Hurricane Sandy, and during the snowpocalypse in ~ 2010). Didn’t loose too much food, though, because power was only out like 12 hours and we kept the refrigerator closed so it stayed cold enough.
I remember one hurricane in ~ 2003 - Isabel I think. Lost power for about a day. Used gas stove to boil water for coffee and made pancakes using a griddle on the stove. Served about a dozen of our neighbors breakfast. They were very happy to have some coffee! A neighbor had a hurricane party the night before and most of us were a tad hungover. 
I lived on a tropical island frequented by hurricanes for a while. Whenever a hurricane was forecasted, we would fill up all bottles we had with water, plus fill the bathtubs with water. Sometimes they would shut off the water in advance of a really bad storm. I was never really sure of the reason to fill the bathtub. I wasn’t sure it is was for washing, or providing water to put down the toilet when water was shut off.[/quote]

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