Do you have any emergency preparation tips you would like to share?

Buy a canoe.
Have some cash on your person.
A powerbank in these days is handy to have on you, too.

Liquor, large amounts.

Make sure your powerebanks are fully charged

Fill gas tank of all vehicles

Park vehicles away from trees

Instead of a garbage can to fill and flush the toilet,simply fill the bath tub.
have plenty of drinking water.
Lots of flashlight batteries
lots of candles
Also fill and freeze(before you lose power)several plastic ,we have gallon ice cream buckets,but it can be large beach bottles, or any gallon size container ,then put them around in the fridge,and freezer will keep food from going bad for a few extra days.
Make sure any vehicle is full of fuel.
cash on hand is a good idea.

Besides keeping a loaded gun next to my bed, and lots of extra ammo, no.

We have an assortment of dry bags that we use on the river. We fill those up with clothes, etc. Anything we want to keep dry. Valuables, breakables etc. can go in those large lidded storage containers. The good ones are not waterproof but certainly water resistant. Fill them and store them in an interior room (preferably one with no windows to be blown out). I remember during Celia watching my parents take all their breakables, wrap them in the clothes and putting them in the dresser and chest of drawers.
Basically, we get all our camping supplies in good order and stored where readily available. Worst come to worst we have a roof over our head, a way to purify water, fire starting equipment, air mattresses, sleeping bags, blankets, first aid supplies and everything else that we might need for an extended outdoor stay.

I have a 500 gallon hot tub that I can use to fill and flush toilets. I also have a gravity-fed carbon block water filter and several portable water filters for drinking water. I have a small rocket stove and cast iron for cooking, you can cook a meal with just a handfull of small twigs using it. Also have about a month of freeze dried food. I have a solar powered workshed that has a small battery bank that’ll run appliances like microwaves, charge phones, run ham radios etc. Guns of course. Floods are not a possibility here. I have a portable, potbelly wood stove that I can set up in about 30 min for heat plus about three cords of wood. I can bicycle anywhere in town here. I use all of this almost daily with the exception of the freeze dried food so I know the condition of everything and keep it all maintained.

Indeed I do, if your butler is struck ill & consequently takes the day off, it’s not the end of the world…brogues can be buffed by the wife & coffee served by the saucy maid from below stairs.
Survivable, but only just..

Be sure and get any refills on RX that you need. Pharmacies may be closed after the storm.

That is excellent advice @marinelife .
GOOD IDEA.

A big one. Make sure generators are in a well.ventilated area. It’s common for people to die, from the exhaust.

Same for space heaters. Be mindful, of where they are, and what could catch fire….

Communication is key. Tell as many people as possible, if you are seeing a problem coming. If nobody knows you have a problem, nobody can help…

I am a YUGE fan of glow sticks. They are small, easy to carry, and do not rely on batteries. They are also not as susceptible to salt water… And, they can’t start a fire…...

Charge everything.
Lift important items off the floor.
Fill vehicles and extra gas cans. (Extra so you can help a stranded neighbor.)
Toss a tow rope in your car or truck.
Spend $3.and get a flat of water and spread the bottles around in your house and cars.
Put some in your freezer to reduce the wasted space and help keep the freezer cold if you lose power.

@LuckyGuy what’s a ‘flat of water’?

A case of bottled water @ScienceChick ,also known as a flat.

@ScienceChick A flat of water is 35 bottles of 16.9 ounces each. They sell for about $3.00. And the bottles are flexible so you can freeze and thaw them multiple times without cracking and leaking. I leave several in my car all year and have never had a leak..

This Q reminds me of Gail C.. She always filled her tub before a snowstorm.

I had never heard that expression before. Thank you.

For travelling of any sort or power outages, I bought a really good power bank. And I have plenty of good flashlights around the house and a drawer full of rechargeable batteries that are charged up. I also have wood and a wood stove, so I’m not reliant on the electric heaters. Fresh water, I tend to take for granted, so I should do something about that. We don’t get hurricanes here, but we do get cyclones/tropical storms that come up and over to the North Sea. I’m not sure if you all got the news about the last one that hit us, but Ireland and the midlands was hit pretty hard. I’m sure we’ll see more bad storms late autumn again. Rina was a nasty bitch. Enesto, this summer, wasn’t so bad, but seemed to just sit and drop fathoms of rain.

You can get emergency light on a smartphones torch in the settings. I use it all the time.

@RedDeerGuy1 I don’t find those very effective, and I’d rather save my battery on my phone and use a flashlight. I have two really good ones strategically places around the house.

So. I had a little fun, the day before Florence. I was filling containers, and I realized that my water was brownish, and yellow. Called water Co. Random broken water main. Unrelated to the storm. So… I had lost my source of water, about 24 hrs before a major hurricane! Yippie!

My water was fixed just in time. I have just moved in a few months ago, and don’t even have a pot to boil water in. Well. I stay prepared. I have a couple bottles of Potable Aqua, and a Life Straw. As I said. They fixed my H20 but, if they hadn’t and I didn’t have a couple last ditch ways to get drinkable water I would have been in a real bad situation.

If possible, try to think a few steps ahead in an emergency. Got a plan? What if that fails? Got a back up plan? What if THAT fails?

Life Straws can usually be found in multiple configurations, and for a decent price. They require no heat, and can basically be just stuck in any questionable water. They have a great reputation with travelers.

PotableAqua, is available in a few forms as well. But you can normallyfind a small bottle of the tablets. No bigger than a small pill bottle. A couple tablets can make a couple gallons drinkable.

Both fit easy in a small part of my bugout bag.

I find that small, and simple tech is best in emergency situations.