Scenario planning
Hurricane Season Stockpile: Buy in May, Not in the Cone
The Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30, and everything about stocking for it is timing. Prices are normal and shelves are full in May. Inside the forecast cone, the same water, batteries, and plywood cost more, sell out, or sit behind a line of cars. This page is the season plan: buy in the calm, stage by the door, and treat the storm itself as an execution problem, not a shopping problem.
The stay-home kit targets 7 to 14 days, because hurricane outages are long and the water question doubles: you need stored water, and the water around you may be contaminated. Filtration you control is the hinge of the whole plan.
The May list: buy before the season
Water storage and a gravity filter first, then two weeks of food counted by calories, then light and power. Add tarps, a real first-aid refresh, and the document bag while the stores are boring. Everything on this page's product list is priced from the same catalog as the rest of the site, checked and dated.
Floodwater rules
Never drive through flooded roads: six inches of moving water can knock you down and twelve inches can carry a car, and the road under the water may be gone. After the storm, treat all tap water as suspect until your utility clears it, and keep floodwater away from anything that touches food.
Stay or go: decide at 48 hours
The evacuate-or-stay call belongs 48 hours out, when the roads are still empty and the go-bags are already packed. If you go, the bags and the vehicle kit are the plan. If you stay, the two-week kit is. What does not work is deciding at landfall.
The products for this plan
The same set as the Shop by Need: Hurricane page, at the same checked prices.
