Ask HN: Survival planning for the Urban Condo dweller?

So when the power went out in Toronto, I found that I was woefully unprepared for life without electricity. My land phoneline , by Vonage ,was unusable. My neighbors’ phone lines , from Rogers and Bell Fibe were also dead. My Nexus 4 battery gave out soon after and it stayed mostly dead during the outage. We had a lot of food but without power it was useless , thanks to a modern electric range. And even though our condo has a gas furnace, it was not working without power. Without TV, Cellphone and with a sick toddler( who got worse but is better now), we found the going rather overwhelming.

Since them I was been figuring out what gear I need to be comfortably set during the next outage; gear that can be stowed a corner in a condo without posing a fire hazard or taking up too much space. I am not looking to outlast the next apocalypse ; I merely want to comfortable through the next urban bureaucratic fuck-up

So far my list has only few one -- super thick comforters . Can HNers add to this list ?