At a minimum, you should always be prepared for events like hurricanes and other weather issues.
I still live in Maryland. Most of my extensive pantry and stores of food are mostly because I am a foodie and want to have most things that store well on hand constantly: Rice, 12-15 kinds of dried beans, large bags of maybe 4 kinds of flour, a couple pounds of 7-8 kinds of pasta on top of a freezer full of each kind of meat that's before keeping ordinary canned/bottled goods like beer, broth, wine, soup, rum, Tuna, vodka, Spam, other liquor, and water in decent quantities.
But also have whole house (natural gas) generator, several bottles of propane for the grill, 2-3 cords of wood. Only have 3 guns (and two bows) and though I don't have zombie apocalypse levels of ammo, I have enough to supplement our stores and vegetable garden with the 200-300 lbs. of venison that walk through my yard daily.
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