Katie Phang is stating that her mother told her to have money stashed away.

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29. Yes no one realized what would happen if power is out for a long time.

Luckily I had some cash stashed away, I was most concerned about getting food for
my daughter at the time, she was only a young teen.

Right, if you announce it then everyone is a target.
But people around here learned the lesson the hard way.

When I have friends or relatives who live out of state and a bad storm with very high wind is coming
their way, I always warn them to get some cash to have on hand.

The other thing is to stay away from trees.
We had a lot of trees coming down during that storm and the day after. People were trying to take care of the trees
that had already come down and were killed or injured as more trees fell.
So if trees are coming down, stay away from them.