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I don't know Amy.

Using your freezer to store water will help. You can fill the milk jugs (but beware, the plastic degrades fairly quickly). Unused bottles will help to keep your food from spoiling.

For radios and flashlights, buy ones that don't need batteries. We have 2 flashlights that you charge by shaking and a radio that cranks up (and is solar powered as well).

Start now buying long shelf-life foods (they don't have to be canned foods).

My biggest fear with a hurricane is not being able to evacuate. We have 2 roads out of the valley, how quickly will they become congested? My friends in Houston sat on the road for 36 hours just to get to Dallas. If the hurricane hadn't turned, they would have been sitting ducks.