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We always keep extra food and water on hand.
I was here in California for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. I was about forty miles from San Francisco but it was strong enough to knock everything off of the walls and shelves. There was a lot of power lines down locally, that kind of stuff. The big problem was no power for three days. Everything in your fridge goes bad in 24 hours, and you can't cook with an electric stove. Can't eat out, can't go to the store, can't even leave town because of the downed power lines and frankly you don't know who has power and where. Oh, no phone either. It was kind of scary because the only news we could get was over car radios, and they were talking about the Bay Bridge collapsing and cars falling into bay and entire freeways collapsing....
Since then I've always been prepared. We keep a lot of canned goods on hand, soups, top ramen, beans, that kind of stuff, and also huge jugs of water. We also have sterno and propane on hand.
Don't laugh. It will happen to you eventually and you'll never see it coming. Here where I live we had a "propane train fire". Turns out our town has a "propane farm" where they store large amounts of propane. It's delivered by train; They drop off a railraod car full of propane and hook it up to the this network where it's stored. Somehow the single railroad car caught fire. If a railroad car full of propane explodes it will take out an entire town. They had to evacuate nearly half the town....
Being as I live in California we also have to be ready for fires. Under the dressers in our closet we have these huge massive bags to fill up with clothes, a fire proof box with our important papers, grab our laptops, and then we have "go bags" in the garage with charging cables and stuff.
I'm ready.
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