@xp29
I absolutely agree. I'm very much a "planning" person - knowing that it might not always work out, but often it might help. Like also: Having documents ready to grab immediately (!). Especially important for me living in a foreign country (in total 10 years in a row in two different foreign countries), and also traveling a lot for work.
There were no really serious situations yet, luckily, but at least some situations where it was at least helpful to prevent some moderately serious situations from becoming a real hassle. (Example for that category: Hotel room evacuation, but nothing life-threatening like a fire in the building. Stuff ready to grab made it a minor inconvenience only, instead of like some others leaving in their night gowns and without documents and being able to access what is in their room only after more than 24 hours.)
For me my general rule: When something changes (like: no pet -> pet; living on a very different floor like changing from some medium floor number to living on the ground floor or to a quite high floor number like now; great (foreign) language skills -> poor to medium (foreign) language skills; different region, country with different risks like tornados, earthquakes, or winter storms with indoor temps dropping seriously), revise my plans. My "no power" plans for here are very differently from what they were in e.g. Tennessee. Same my "health emergency" plans.