I live down south, in a tiny university town, where about half the population is made up by the students. These students move here from all over the country, and several of them have never been this far south before. This means that each year when the big hurricane season starts there are thousands of new people who have no plan quite how dangerous it can be. I live outside of town, and next door lives a group of university teenagers. During the last hurricane I went over to see how they were doing after the power went out, and found them smoking cannabis and playing a rousing game of Beer Pong. Here I was being sad and stressed, and these teenagers were having a great time with marijuana, vodka, and beer. I made a choice to relax and not worry about the storm. Taking a few tokes of high-caliber cannabis helped to ease myself and others into a more chill state of mind, then eating a 10mg cannabis edible reinforced my choice, and had myself and others resting on the sofa for multiple straight hours. We had a fantastic time that evening, and it forever changed the way that I prepare for a hurricane. I still get lots of canned food and bottled water, and gas for my power generator, but I also stock up on cannabis and cannabis edibles, too! As dangerous as the hurricane can be, the stress and worry can be just as dangerous, and cannabis absolutely helped to take the edge off. I have a vacuum-sealed jar in the pantry with an emergency back-up supply of killer cannabis in preparation for the next crucial storm.