90 Days Without Power: The Exact Costco Cart I'd Buy Today If You Live Alone

I was married thirty-eight years to a lineman, and after every big storm Ray told me the same thing: the folks really in trouble are the ones who ran out of water. He's been gone four years now, so I plan for one. This is the exact Costco cart I'd fill today if you live alone and the power goes out for ninety days: water three ways, the three cheap foods that cover more than half of it, what goes in the gaps, how to cook with no power, the medicine nobody plans for, and the three things everybody rushes to buy first that I'd never put in my cart. Prices are about what my Costco charges and change by warehouse, so check your own store. Never run a camp stove, grill, heater or generator inside the house or in a closed garage, and put a battery carbon monoxide alarm in the cart. Ask your doctor and your pharmacist about your own medicine. Tell me in the comments what town you're watching from. 0:00 Ninety days with no power 0:56 Ray, and the 2021 freeze 2:01 1. Water, three ways 3:31 The water you already own 4:56 The food target 5:22 2. White rice 6:14 3. Dried beans 7:00 4. Oats 7:59 5-13. Filling in the gaps 13:02 The order you eat it in 14:05 An ordinary day off the cart 15:11 14. Cooking with no power, and the hay box 17:48 15. Everything that isn't food 18:57 The pharmacy 20:16 Your check-in person 20:39 Where it all goes 21:54 What it costs, in four trips 22:26 Three things I'd never buy 24:35 The whole cart again 25:35 If you can't spend that much 26:42 Your job this week