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I guess that what being a prepper gives you in this situation, is Options. There's a big difference between risk-assessing a trip to the shops to top off your stores, and HAVING to go, risky or not, because you have no stores laid in at home.

This was really brought home to me during the panic over the "fuel strike that never happened" last year. I,ve been keeping tanks toppled off and spare fuel in store since the blockades in 2000. It was comforting to see the chaos unfolding at the pumps last year, knowing that we didn't need to be part of it.

Personally, my priority would be to fill water containers, as I tend not to keep too much drinking water in reserve because it's basically "perishable". We do keep some, which we rotate regularly, which would be enough for the mains going off for a couple of days, but not enough for a prolonged problem.