I'm a Pianist at Heart: A Hurricane Preparedness Guide

As I sit here typing away, I'm reminded that life is unpredictable and can change in an instant. The recent hurricane warnings have left me feeling anxious about the power outage and the need to be prepared for any situation. As someone who plays the piano, I've always been a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my instrument. However, I realize now that being a pianist at heart doesn't necessarily mean I'm prepared for everything life throws my way.

To get hard better is not exactly something you'd associate with being a pianist, but I like to think that my passion for music translates to other areas of my life as well. When it comes to hurricane preparedness, I want to make sure I have everything covered in case the power goes out. That's why I've been investing in some essential items, including lanterns and batteries.

I recently ordered a set of LED lanterns to ensure we have sufficient lighting during a power outage. These lanterns are not only energy-efficient but also run on batteries, making them a necessity for our hurricane survival kit. I'm excited to try out these lanterns and see how they perform in different scenarios. As an added bonus, we already had a couple of similar lanterns from my camping trips, so it's always great to have extra supplies.

One essential item that might seem like a luxury during a hurricane is ice cream. In all seriousness, having some comfort food on hand can make a big difference when the situation becomes dire. I joked with Nicole about stocking up on Ben and Jerry's ice cream as our go-to snack. While we may not have an endless supply of California Pizza Kitchen pizzas or Magnum chocolate bars, these indulgences will certainly bring some much-needed joy during this challenging time.

When it comes to hurricane preparedness, having a reliable food source is crucial. Nicole has a unique shopping method where she stocks up on non-perishable items that won't go bad quickly. Her approach might seem excessive to some, but when you think about it, having three boxes of cereal every day is actually quite efficient and practical. Who knows, maybe we'll become the ultimate stockpilers!

As I pondered the mystery of the empty toilet paper shelves, I couldn't help but wonder if there's a secret Facebook group where people are planning to toilet-paper all the houses during the hurricane. That image alone is enough to make me laugh and shake my head in amusement. Perhaps it's just a case of people procrastinating about buying toilet paper due to store closures. Whatever the reason, I'm grateful for our stash of essentials and the knowledge that we're prepared.

On a more serious note, I want to extend my gratitude to all of you for your continued support. The merchandise side of things has been doing incredibly well, and it's fantastic to see the guys at the warehouse getting excited about the increased hours they'll be working. As someone who used to handle everything myself from my bedroom store, it's amazing to see how far we've come.

However, I don't want to talk too much about merch; I promise to keep that aspect of things to a minimum. If you're looking for something specific or have advice on how we can improve our product offerings, please don't hesitate to reach out. In the meantime, I'd like to share with you this new riff I came up with while messing around on my guitar. It's got a Metallica vibe to it, and I think it would be perfect for one of our future videos.

Finally, thank you all again for your kindness and support during these uncertain times. Your positivity and suggestions have meant the world to us, and we're constantly grateful for the opportunity to connect with each and every one of you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyeah I'm fine well there goes our I think we can handle it yeah I think we'll be good thank you poor bushes first time I ever got flood delivered I was so confused because I got the food I was all ready to eat i sat down and then there was a rare meat I didn't I didn't know if I was okay to eat it rare or maybe it was like some special meat or something and then somehow I came to the conclusion that you put it in the soup and it cooks it but I was like really puzzled at first but that's how you know it's fresh like it's magic it's like almost cooked already yeah it's raining but this one's almost boarded up that one's boarded up but actually the hurricane might be shifting which means that it doesn't matter this is where the winds coming I put the wood this year oh it's the most important thing to block any way to stay safe for us all all jokes aside though like if you break the window in the house I'm not worried about replacing the window but if there's like stuff flying into our cars that's gonna cause a lot more money and damage then like I've stuffed flies into our couch you know nice haircut Thanks no one was at the haircut place today it's like people aren't trying to get haircuts in preparation for the hurricane I'm like so what I need a haircut hurricane I need a haircut I'm so over that whole plywood to the windows thing I've been joking around on Twitter about which cars gonna go on the lift and I feel like there's pros and cons because the car that's on the lift yeah is the highest if we get flooding but I feel like it's more likely that one of those light fixtures is gonna fall or the ceilings gonna cave and I don't know so the s15 gets the lift just because it was easiest it was already kind of like on the lift posts and then I'll probably Park my BMW the mini under it and then we'll have the other two cars here we have the cars of warehouse I don't know what's gonna come I don't know if I should Jack a lot of cars up they said like six to nine inches of rain the way that our driveway and everything is scaled I don't think we should have water in here but I'll still probably get things ready to go just in case I'm actually thinking about just saving this parking space entirely for the pit bike I really love that thing and I want to keep it safe so I mean kind of getting burnt out today because all this hurricane stuffs like really redundant and it's not very fun which of course it's not fun it's a necessity so I took a little break and did something fun real quick and just wrapped Nicole Sylvia piece with carbon fiber vinyl I know it's not like perfect but just for the time being I didn't like how the Sylvia looked because it was kind of like if he Nicole was on the same page about it she thought the carbon fiber looks cool but I have another type of grill that we ordered for the Sylvia front for the time being but I think this looks cool temporarily I just have a lot of fun wrapping stuff it's just like relaxing so I got a lot of cleaning to do in the garage I was actually a little bummed that the weather went bad before I was able to finish the window because I get a package from with some new sunglasses and I wanted to wear them oh no these are their outsider glasses you can't go wrong with just a simple pair of black sunglasses and the lenses on these are really nice I didn't get to test these ones outside but it's pretty bright in here so maybe I'll just work in the cars with sunglasses on maybe that's just what you have to do and you have 54 light bulbs in your garage that's right I don't know if I've ever said that before there's 54 light bulbs in here the these lights aren't working right now I have to figure out what's wrong with them because I'm not an electrician I was really hyper and movements started making sunglasses because they've been sponsoring our videos for so long that I started to have a collection where I almost have every single one of their watches and I get way more of a chance to wear sunglasses than I do watches so it's great thank you movement both movements watches and sunglasses are very simple very stylish how they recommend you go check them out if you haven't before I actually have a code that will get you 15% off free shipping and free returns if you just go to movement comm /lz BMX it's really cool how many people have been meeting that actually take advantage of the code so thank you I appreciate you movement appreciate you and because of you guys movement has been the longest outstanding sponsor on this channel so that's awesome thank you again movement and if you guys want to check out that code it is just movement calm for /lz BMX I still can't get over how much I love these feels on that s15 just wants to do like a super rushed in lazy build just so I can drive it with the SR in it now and just clean up the little spots and just leave it white but this car I want to go above and beyond it I want to do it right and very soon we're gonna have a major s15 update with some major news right now that focuses on the hurricane but it's coming I promise nothing but good news I think you grow has something against our house or something because probably out of the hundred times we've gotten food from ubereats I'd say about two drivers actually found our house we even had one time where a driver was like driving around in circles for like a half hour and then like we ended up not getting the food like didn't pick up their phone either when we were trying to help it's a little bit more information on kind of how we've been preparing for the hurricane one thing that I'm worried about the most is just if we lose power after the fact I think we're fortunate enough that because of the fact that the storm is traveling over pretty much all Florida that it's going to be dying down to probably a category three or maybe four by the time it gets here so I think the biggest issue we'd have would be the power outages after so we have the generator from my trailer which we can use to run the fridge which is great charge phones if we want to watch Netflix I don't know but another thing is it's very tough in Florida with the humidity and the heat to survive without air conditioning so I found this thing on Amazon Prime originally I wanted to just get like a little window AC unit but then I realized if I get one of these I can use it in the trailer - since our AC in the roof of the trailer doesn't really cool the whole trailer I can just kind of have this thing chilling in there - I'm sure it uses a lot of electricity but for the little amount that we use it I think it's like a 10,000 BTU unit which is good for like 400 square feet supposedly trying to be proactive I also tried to start clearing stuff off this back porch I know it doesn't look it but I needed up this whole counter and started packing stuff under here because last thing we want if it gets super windy is having stuff blow right into our glass slider I don't have any plywood that's big enough to cover that so we're just gonna have to hope for the best but I don't think we're supposed to get that bad of winds from behind the house now another thing that we're gonna do which is kind of an idea suggested by you guys is using oh where are they I thought they were in here I guess not I have some moving blankets they were gonna be in that closet but that's what I thought that shows how much I know my own house I could be wrong but I don't think that flooding is necessarily the biggest issue with the amount of rainfall that's predicted and the fact that Florida set up for good drainage because we get rain here all the time but what I was kind of worried about is maybe the light fixture is falling from the ceiling or other debris and noventa something happens so I'm not about moving blankets on all the cars that was an idea that you guys suggested and I think it's a really great idea and that way if something Falls like yeah maybe it'll still dent a roof but it won't scratch it up I don't know how likely this stuff is it's it's really one of those things where I don't have any hurricane experience but I'm just going off with a million different people are telling me we got the sandbags for the doors I've got a whole tube full of cream vinyl that I'm gonna use for a little project so I have something to do during the hurricane other than hang out with Nicole of course maybe we'll wrap something together I'm not gonna tell you guys what we're gonna wrap but it's gonna be something fun you know maybe you'll be a hip-hop beat maybe do yo calm it's not that type of graphing how funny is it that me and Matt finally installed the fixture and the shrooms and Nicole could have light but the lights don't work so I need to test the voltage or whatever you're doing house stuff that's not a car to figure out why it's not working I'm gonna play you guys a song how was that Nicole thanks it was one-handed and I filmed I'm a pianist at heart I think I like to get hard better it sounds more metal I spun out hey come down we're gonna need light too when we lose power so I ordered some of these lanterns what are gonna call them I think they're LED I don't realize we already had a couple of these from camping but they just kind of like this it's pretty cool I think there's run-off batteries but definitely a necessity when the power goes out and of course the number one hurricane survival food Ben and Jerry's ice cream just kidding California Pizza Kitchen pizzas and magnum chocolate bars if you can't tell Nick Nichole sees the sale at the grocery store instead of buying one she gets a bunch just because it's stuff that doesn't go bad so we have it forever and we got it at the sale price so how can you beat that you know what's so funny well the grocery store they're all sold out a peanut butter and bread except for like one brand has a few of each left and water and ice and everything like pop-tarts and canned goods but guess guess the odd thing that they're all sold out of what toilet paper which is weird because people use toilet paper every day is not like only when the hurricane comes do they need toilet paper really yeah literally the shelves are empty of toilet paper and I understand maybe you're not at work so you're not using your works toilet paper but like the entire shelves are empty of toilet paper that just doesn't make sense to me I'm feeling that there's a reason for it and I have a feeling that you guys know so if you know where did all the toilet paper go that's what I want to hear is there an influx of YouTube videos of toilet paper forts at people's homes now is that what people are planning to do during the hurricane because they can't go to Walmart because Walmart to be closed so toilet paper in my own home oh my god not clickbait so cringe i don't know but yeah nicole has an interesting shopping method where we we stock up on a lot of food and it seems ridiculous like the first time I ever went over her parents house and they had a couple dozen boxes of cereal I'm like these people are crazy but it makes sense if it doesn't go bad why not just have it so you don't have to constantly keep going back to the grocery store when you have three boxes of cereal a day because you're a baller like me I'm thinking though I wonder if there's a secret Facebook group and people are planning on instead of looting going around and toilet papering all the houses during the hurricane because it would make like an inferno tornado of toilet paper and then that would just really ruin some people's days maybe I'm thinking too hard about this maybe Nicole it's people like a normally procrastinate buying toilet paper and the way that the stores are gonna be closed for a couple weeks so they won't be able to buy more maybe that's why maybe people are lazy about toilet paper they don't make a priority about it on a serious note I also wanted to extend a massive thank you to you guys the store like my merchant stuff has been doing really really well and it's awesome I feel like we're in a good groove again we have a lot of cool products that have been coming out you guys have been really really supportive on that and the guys at the warehouse are really stoked because there's a lot more hours that they can get now and it's just something I'm really excited about I feel like I used to talk about the merch side of things way more when I did everything myself and the store was in my bedroom and then when I kind of phased out of it I just I looked at a lot of youtubers and I don't want to be one of those people that just shoves their merch down your throat and I I never want to be like that I really only talked about it if it's something that I'm really excited about if it's applicable or if sales are a little bit slow and the guys need more hours at the warehouse so just keep that in mind and if it's ever one of those things where you think I'm talking about merch too much and if it bothers you please let me know after all I make these videos for you guys messing around on the guitar and came up with like this riff that I really liked it kind of has like a Metallica vibe to it so on the end of video with that and thank you guys once again for all the support all the good wishes and all the positivity that you guys have been sending this way it means a ton to us that you guys are constantly looking out for us figuring out ways you can suggest advice helping us in just being awesome so thank you so muchyeah I'm fine well there goes our I think we can handle it yeah I think we'll be good thank you poor bushes first time I ever got flood delivered I was so confused because I got the food I was all ready to eat i sat down and then there was a rare meat I didn't I didn't know if I was okay to eat it rare or maybe it was like some special meat or something and then somehow I came to the conclusion that you put it in the soup and it cooks it but I was like really puzzled at first but that's how you know it's fresh like it's magic it's like almost cooked already yeah it's raining but this one's almost boarded up that one's boarded up but actually the hurricane might be shifting which means that it doesn't matter this is where the winds coming I put the wood this year oh it's the most important thing to block any way to stay safe for us all all jokes aside though like if you break the window in the house I'm not worried about replacing the window but if there's like stuff flying into our cars that's gonna cause a lot more money and damage then like I've stuffed flies into our couch you know nice haircut Thanks no one was at the haircut place today it's like people aren't trying to get haircuts in preparation for the hurricane I'm like so what I need a haircut hurricane I need a haircut I'm so over that whole plywood to the windows thing I've been joking around on Twitter about which cars gonna go on the lift and I feel like there's pros and cons because the car that's on the lift yeah is the highest if we get flooding but I feel like it's more likely that one of those light fixtures is gonna fall or the ceilings gonna cave and I don't know so the s15 gets the lift just because it was easiest it was already kind of like on the lift posts and then I'll probably Park my BMW the mini under it and then we'll have the other two cars here we have the cars of warehouse I don't know what's gonna come I don't know if I should Jack a lot of cars up they said like six to nine inches of rain the way that our driveway and everything is scaled I don't think we should have water in here but I'll still probably get things ready to go just in case I'm actually thinking about just saving this parking space entirely for the pit bike I really love that thing and I want to keep it safe so I mean kind of getting burnt out today because all this hurricane stuffs like really redundant and it's not very fun which of course it's not fun it's a necessity so I took a little break and did something fun real quick and just wrapped Nicole Sylvia piece with carbon fiber vinyl I know it's not like perfect but just for the time being I didn't like how the Sylvia looked because it was kind of like if he Nicole was on the same page about it she thought the carbon fiber looks cool but I have another type of grill that we ordered for the Sylvia front for the time being but I think this looks cool temporarily I just have a lot of fun wrapping stuff it's just like relaxing so I got a lot of cleaning to do in the garage I was actually a little bummed that the weather went bad before I was able to finish the window because I get a package from with some new sunglasses and I wanted to wear them oh no these are their outsider glasses you can't go wrong with just a simple pair of black sunglasses and the lenses on these are really nice I didn't get to test these ones outside but it's pretty bright in here so maybe I'll just work in the cars with sunglasses on maybe that's just what you have to do and you have 54 light bulbs in your garage that's right I don't know if I've ever said that before there's 54 light bulbs in here the these lights aren't working right now I have to figure out what's wrong with them because I'm not an electrician I was really hyper and movements started making sunglasses because they've been sponsoring our videos for so long that I started to have a collection where I almost have every single one of their watches and I get way more of a chance to wear sunglasses than I do watches so it's great thank you movement both movements watches and sunglasses are very simple very stylish how they recommend you go check them out if you haven't before I actually have a code that will get you 15% off free shipping and free returns if you just go to movement comm /lz BMX it's really cool how many people have been meeting that actually take advantage of the code so thank you I appreciate you movement appreciate you and because of you guys movement has been the longest outstanding sponsor on this channel so that's awesome thank you again movement and if you guys want to check out that code it is just movement calm for /lz BMX I still can't get over how much I love these feels on that s15 just wants to do like a super rushed in lazy build just so I can drive it with the SR in it now and just clean up the little spots and just leave it white but this car I want to go above and beyond it I want to do it right and very soon we're gonna have a major s15 update with some major news right now that focuses on the hurricane but it's coming I promise nothing but good news I think you grow has something against our house or something because probably out of the hundred times we've gotten food from ubereats I'd say about two drivers actually found our house we even had one time where a driver was like driving around in circles for like a half hour and then like we ended up not getting the food like didn't pick up their phone either when we were trying to help it's a little bit more information on kind of how we've been preparing for the hurricane one thing that I'm worried about the most is just if we lose power after the fact I think we're fortunate enough that because of the fact that the storm is traveling over pretty much all Florida that it's going to be dying down to probably a category three or maybe four by the time it gets here so I think the biggest issue we'd have would be the power outages after so we have the generator from my trailer which we can use to run the fridge which is great charge phones if we want to watch Netflix I don't know but another thing is it's very tough in Florida with the humidity and the heat to survive without air conditioning so I found this thing on Amazon Prime originally I wanted to just get like a little window AC unit but then I realized if I get one of these I can use it in the trailer - since our AC in the roof of the trailer doesn't really cool the whole trailer I can just kind of have this thing chilling in there - I'm sure it uses a lot of electricity but for the little amount that we use it I think it's like a 10,000 BTU unit which is good for like 400 square feet supposedly trying to be proactive I also tried to start clearing stuff off this back porch I know it doesn't look it but I needed up this whole counter and started packing stuff under here because last thing we want if it gets super windy is having stuff blow right into our glass slider I don't have any plywood that's big enough to cover that so we're just gonna have to hope for the best but I don't think we're supposed to get that bad of winds from behind the house now another thing that we're gonna do which is kind of an idea suggested by you guys is using oh where are they I thought they were in here I guess not I have some moving blankets they were gonna be in that closet but that's what I thought that shows how much I know my own house I could be wrong but I don't think that flooding is necessarily the biggest issue with the amount of rainfall that's predicted and the fact that Florida set up for good drainage because we get rain here all the time but what I was kind of worried about is maybe the light fixture is falling from the ceiling or other debris and noventa something happens so I'm not about moving blankets on all the cars that was an idea that you guys suggested and I think it's a really great idea and that way if something Falls like yeah maybe it'll still dent a roof but it won't scratch it up I don't know how likely this stuff is it's it's really one of those things where I don't have any hurricane experience but I'm just going off with a million different people are telling me we got the sandbags for the doors I've got a whole tube full of cream vinyl that I'm gonna use for a little project so I have something to do during the hurricane other than hang out with Nicole of course maybe we'll wrap something together I'm not gonna tell you guys what we're gonna wrap but it's gonna be something fun you know maybe you'll be a hip-hop beat maybe do yo calm it's not that type of graphing how funny is it that me and Matt finally installed the fixture and the shrooms and Nicole could have light but the lights don't work so I need to test the voltage or whatever you're doing house stuff that's not a car to figure out why it's not working I'm gonna play you guys a song how was that Nicole thanks it was one-handed and I filmed I'm a pianist at heart I think I like to get hard better it sounds more metal I spun out hey come down we're gonna need light too when we lose power so I ordered some of these lanterns what are gonna call them I think they're LED I don't realize we already had a couple of these from camping but they just kind of like this it's pretty cool I think there's run-off batteries but definitely a necessity when the power goes out and of course the number one hurricane survival food Ben and Jerry's ice cream just kidding California Pizza Kitchen pizzas and magnum chocolate bars if you can't tell Nick Nichole sees the sale at the grocery store instead of buying one she gets a bunch just because it's stuff that doesn't go bad so we have it forever and we got it at the sale price so how can you beat that you know what's so funny well the grocery store they're all sold out a peanut butter and bread except for like one brand has a few of each left and water and ice and everything like pop-tarts and canned goods but guess guess the odd thing that they're all sold out of what toilet paper which is weird because people use toilet paper every day is not like only when the hurricane comes do they need toilet paper really yeah literally the shelves are empty of toilet paper and I understand maybe you're not at work so you're not using your works toilet paper but like the entire shelves are empty of toilet paper that just doesn't make sense to me I'm feeling that there's a reason for it and I have a feeling that you guys know so if you know where did all the toilet paper go that's what I want to hear is there an influx of YouTube videos of toilet paper forts at people's homes now is that what people are planning to do during the hurricane because they can't go to Walmart because Walmart to be closed so toilet paper in my own home oh my god not clickbait so cringe i don't know but yeah nicole has an interesting shopping method where we we stock up on a lot of food and it seems ridiculous like the first time I ever went over her parents house and they had a couple dozen boxes of cereal I'm like these people are crazy but it makes sense if it doesn't go bad why not just have it so you don't have to constantly keep going back to the grocery store when you have three boxes of cereal a day because you're a baller like me I'm thinking though I wonder if there's a secret Facebook group and people are planning on instead of looting going around and toilet papering all the houses during the hurricane because it would make like an inferno tornado of toilet paper and then that would just really ruin some people's days maybe I'm thinking too hard about this maybe Nicole it's people like a normally procrastinate buying toilet paper and the way that the stores are gonna be closed for a couple weeks so they won't be able to buy more maybe that's why maybe people are lazy about toilet paper they don't make a priority about it on a serious note I also wanted to extend a massive thank you to you guys the store like my merchant stuff has been doing really really well and it's awesome I feel like we're in a good groove again we have a lot of cool products that have been coming out you guys have been really really supportive on that and the guys at the warehouse are really stoked because there's a lot more hours that they can get now and it's just something I'm really excited about I feel like I used to talk about the merch side of things way more when I did everything myself and the store was in my bedroom and then when I kind of phased out of it I just I looked at a lot of youtubers and I don't want to be one of those people that just shoves their merch down your throat and I I never want to be like that I really only talked about it if it's something that I'm really excited about if it's applicable or if sales are a little bit slow and the guys need more hours at the warehouse so just keep that in mind and if it's ever one of those things where you think I'm talking about merch too much and if it bothers you please let me know after all I make these videos for you guys messing around on the guitar and came up with like this riff that I really liked it kind of has like a Metallica vibe to it so on the end of video with that and thank you guys once again for all the support all the good wishes and all the positivity that you guys have been sending this way it means a ton to us that you guys are constantly looking out for us figuring out ways you can suggest advice helping us in just being awesome so thank you so much\n"