Your cellphone’s battery will lose its charge at the least convenient time - this is as guaranteed as Death and Taxes. I also guarantee that you’ll want to make calls during a disaster.
Fortunately, there are a few solutions to this variation on Murphy’s Law
THE BUG-OUT BAG
With luck, you will never experience a huge and overwhelming disaster like Hurricane Katrina. However, if disaster threatens your family and/or forces an evacuation, you may need a fully-stocked and easily-reached emergency “bug-out” bag. This could help make rescue, recovery and a “return to normal” easier and more successful; in the early stages of a disaster, it could even save lives.
A bug-out bag is basically a big bag or backpack containing the following: