Emergency: Advance Warning, Kitchen

If there is advance warning, there is much that can be done in the kitchen to make the emergency easier to manage.

If there is time, some things to consider doing include:

• Order extra food, water, supplies, and ice
• Cook in advance meats that can be served cold (also slice), casseroles that can be heated and served, bakery items
• Select the coldest setting on refrigerators and freezers
• Store ice and water (freeze sandwich bags of water for easy distribution, freeze as much water as possible, fill as many containers with water as possible)
• Wash dishes and switch to disposable (if losing the dishroom is likely)
• Serve a substantial meal before the storm hits

Anything that can be done in advance will make handling the emergency easier.