When the area was hit with severe storms that downed thousands of trees and left 590,000 homes and businesses without power, we were fortunate to have only had to go a little over 24 hours without electricity. Even so, I was shocked at how ill prepared I was to handle it. Saturday morning - no power - no Keurig - no coffee. No big deal, right? I'll just make a quick run to Starbucks. Except that they didn't have power either. After driving around for 45 minutes trying to find someplace that had power and didn't have a line around the block, I broke down, bought some horrible gas station coffee and headed for home.
My solution? A 3 day emergency kit for when you become URBAN AMISH like we were! I'm not a "Doomsday Prepper" and I'm not preparing for the zombie apocalypse, so I've never really made any sort of emergency kit, but it turns out there are a million websites out there already that can help you with building a bunker full of enough food to last a lifetime. This kit is a little more geared toward those creature comforts that we COULD go without... but we don't really want to. - See more at: http://ablittlelife.blogspot.com/2013/06/preparing-for-multi-day-power-outage.html#sthash.AccTsZGL.d...