Help a Mama in Need: Hurricane & Repairs

TLDR: 37 weeks pregnant, raising money for hurricane prep and car repairs

I am a writer, artist, and mother who is raising money to cover some current and anticipated emergencies. Currently, I am a little over 37 weeks pregnant. I am due to give birth anytime between mid-June to mid-July (by standard measurement, I'll be approximately 40 weeks on July 1st). This is my second hurricane season, and last year during Hurricane Beryl, we lost almost a month's worth of groceries and had no power for a solid 10 days. At the time, our car was in the shop, so we had no choice but to borrow money for rides to H-E-B to be somewhere with power, and we spent all day shuffling back and forth between H-E-B and Starbucks, including on our eldest daughter's 4th birthday. We are still planning to shelter in place this year, but obviously, we don't want to be in a hot, humid house without some sort of backup power source with a newborn baby, a toddler, and an asthmatic adult.

We don't have any disposable income, so it has been hard to save for emergencies. The 2025 hurricane season is apparently shaping up to be just as bad (if not worse) than 2024. Here is a cursory breakdown of what we need: