[thuanao]

> Whatever you think you need to have saved, know you probably need more. I quickly blew through my rainy-day funds.

Huh!? Forget canned food and go-bags. If you only have a few days worth of savings that is an emergency. I hope I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “rainy day funds”

[ianburrell]

Maybe he means cash. It is good to have some cash ($100-1000) for outages of credit cards, or just needing cash.

[prmoustache]

There is nothing that justified spending +2000usd worth of stuff for a 6 days power outage if the household had even a limited supply of non perishable food in cans + water. The first 24 hours you finish the fridge, the second one the freezer and then only into the third you really have to start using from non refrigerated food.

All his purchases were directed into having and maintaining power which were not really the priority. The silly part is he had still access to takeouts so there wasn't even remote risk of starving