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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My SIL also plans to cook all day today, which I don't understand since they'll most certainly lose power. Unless she's baking bread and brownies (I think she's making stews, etc)[/quote]

My sister has a generator [/quote]

Generators don't do much if you don't have access to gas. Plus after a hurricane you need to be able to run them for a long period of time. Reports are that the area is already out of gas. That means trucks need to make it back down there to refill the lines, assuming they are able to do so in a timely fashion and that the gas stations themself are not damaged.[/quote]

People who live in hurricane prone areas, who have generators, actually "prep" for hurricanes fairly well. They keep some gas on hand (outdoors in a shed, detached from the property) and likely fill up some more if they have an inkling a storm is on its way.  They aren't rushing out now to get gas, because they know that gas will run low.

The people running out now to get gas to evacuuate aren't generally the ones who "prepped" for the emergency.[/quote]

Most people don't have the space or sheds to store enough gas to make it through outages more than a day. There are some people who try to store a gas tank farm on their property but no sensible person wants them as neighbors.  Most people with generators didn't have enough gas to get them through Helene's outages. People do scramble around trying to secure gas right up until the last minute. You have to keep checking. [/quote]

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