Put your tulips and hyacinths (if you have any) in your refrigerator now, preferably in the meat drawer.. Don't put them in the fruit drawer (gases from ripening fruit can kill the blooms). Mark your calendar for 8 to 12 weeks before you plant them in your containers. You could probably get away without chilling the species tulips, but it's a better bet to chill. The spider lilies you can plant in the ground right now. If anything will survive this drought it would be them. Don't expect blooms from them this year. But they should put up leaves very soon. Leave them standing all winter and let them turn yellow in the spring before you cut them back. (Just a note for future reference. Spider Lily leaves look just like daffodils, except they have a dark stripe down the middle.)
You can go ahead and plant daffodils, muscari, etc. in your pots now. Do not take them into the garage. Leave them outside where they can get any drop of rain that falls. They won't freeze in your mild winters, and they need the chill time to be able to bloom come spring. Your pots will have to have some water through the winter. Not alot, but some: a good watering once a week at least. Save some bath water, mop water or dish water for them. (Not water with bleach in it.) Plant your bulbs according to the package directions. Give them a spoonful of bulb booster when you plant them. Keep them watered, and look forward to spring! To give yourself added pleasure, plant some pansies or flowering kale in the top of the pots after your bulbs are planted. Coordinate the pansy colors with the bulb colors.
(I have planted sparaxis before and they only returned about three years or so. But they are pretty.)

Thanks so much, very helpful!