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>>>Your mention of $10 batteries suggests another ingredient for a quake preparation kit – they will need replacing in the kit every so often…<<< Stash them in a plastic bag in the back of your freezer or the freezer section of the fridge. The speed of chemical reactions at -10 degrees C is about three orders of magnitude slower than at room temp, so batteries don't go dead or corrode very quickly if you freeze them and keep them frozen. (And, yes, they work when you take them out).