I've got bottled water, flashlight batteries (and flashlights, duh), candles, plenty of canned food (and a manual can opener), big dead tree that hung over the house was removed this summer, first aid kit is somewhere accessible, gutters are cleaned out, patio furniture etc will be in the garage tonight, filling up the gas tanks after work. Hey, wonder if you could use pool water for cooking if you had to. Could certainly use it for washing up at any rate. Last hurricane around here (Floyd) and our neighborhood was under water and even the houses that weren't flooded had no power or drinking water for awhile.

Think I'm ready enough for Isabel to miss us completely because that's how it always works. If you prepare, nothing happens ;)