We just returned from visiting our son, the topic of this thread. He was slightly better prepped for hurican Layne than he led me to believe. He did see that he needed to have a better source for cooking and at least finally got a gas grill and ordered a 2 burner camp stove from Amazon. He is actively looking to add more propane bottles! Damn things are expensive in Hawaii! A new 5 gallon bottle from Costco is $35 empty there. The exact saame bottle is $24.99 today in my local Costco. He knows he needs to build his water supply back up to where it was when he left California, right now he is good for only about a week, not counting his hot water heater which could add anotherweek to 10 days. His stock of prep foods is still low, they are probabaly only ready for about a week. One thing that hurrican did do was make his wife see the need to be self-sufficient for a few weeks.