Here in WA, every time a big windstorm or something is predicted, most people run to the stores for the necessities: water, Dinty Moore, tuna, diapers and beer. EVERY TIME they have carts filled with drinking water. And I always wonder what they do with it when the event is over, water the petunias?
Pre-plan and act. If you need to, gas, bread and milk. Done.
Sue
Same thing happens here. Bottled water and gasoline are the first things to go. I have the obligatory 3-day supply of water, the means to purify more, and about a weeks worth of food.
About the only pre-thinking I do is to top off the tank whenever Santa Anas are forecast.
I think everybody does what I do whenever I rotate the water in my kit: drink it. All those water bottles everybody is carting around.... Yup, thats where it goes.
P.S. 6 month old water is really only palatable when it's cold.