I've been thinking about something, after seeing another report from Houston...

[Igel]

5. Various.

Some batteries, but after a week we'd probably run short of those. Some candles.

Propane camp stove for cooking and boiling water, with lots of extra canisters. During Ike we had bacon, pancakes and eggs for breakfast and a chicken curry for dinner with basmati for dinner.

The stand-alone freezer would keep things frozen for days while we emptied the fridge and that smaller freezer compartment.

Heat's not a problem. After the hurricanes I've been through the temperature drops to reasonable levels, so there's that.

For entertainment we have cards, board games. Lots of books for reading. And various stringed instruments that we play.

My area sometimes loses power if it gets cloudy. In the last week and a half we lost power for less than a second, the kind of thing if you blink at the right time you would miss.