The storm passed us by without a problem. I'm incredibly thankful for that and hope the people who did not fare as well will be back on their feet soon.

Living in a big city I don't have a car. However I can see a couple of problems with stocking fuel.

First it can go really wrong in a natural disaster if your containers leak and there is a spark or fire.

Second, gasoline at least has a pretty short shelf life all things considered, so you would need to make sure to use and replenish your stock over time.

Its not an easy problem to solve unless you have so much land that you can place your emergency fuel supply at a good distance from your home and possibly underground with a manual pump for retrieval. It definitely has to be part of your routine to cycle through it over time.

If you have a garage, get a small 50-125cc moped/scooter, those things will get 100mpg+ and get you to work more easily than your car if roads are full of debris, etc. so that 10 gallon allowance from the pump should last you a long time unless you have so far to commute that 30mph won't cut it. In which case you should probably consider camping out by work until everything is ok again.

From my personal experience, I wish we had stocked up on non-perishables a little better just in case. Another thing I thought of too late was a roll of heavy duty plastic sheet to cover blown out windows and items near them to protect from water/wind damage as well as more ducktape (can you ever have enough?)