Reply #10: 3 to 5 weeks without power

[Tallulah]

after Andrew.

Saying 3 days of food is not enough. You need more than that.

Something no one thinks about, dry ice. I lost nothing in my refrigerator because my BIL brought me dry ice daily. It kept everything cold. We did cook all the meat we had. I didn't want to throw it out. Better than losing it.

Another thing, when Katrina hit, I had a cable landline phone. I could call out but no one could call in. Check that if you have the cable package. It was strange.

In every hurricane I've been through, we had water and natural gas. I washed clothes in my bathtub and made a clothesline in my laundry room. You do what you gotta do. Have a piece of rope handy just in case.