I used to live in hurricane country, and having a week's worth of water and food in the house was just common sense. As well as a few hundred dollars in cash,

I used to live in hurricane country, and having a week's worth of water and food in the house was just common sense. As well as a few hundred dollars in cash, for when the power goes out and ATMs & credit-card machines stop working. Fun story: I got onto I-440 around Raleigh after Floyd came through, and there was this long line of cars driving really slowly. Really bizarre, since most of the time the road is a racetrack. I get to the head of it, and they're all following an ice truck to it's next stop so they can top-up their coolers.