Bug Out Bag
May. 8th, 2006 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teagueFlorida is on fire again. Soon it will be the rainy season, but until then, it will remain dry and easily ignited. It's been bad enough to close various highways. People have been evacuated.
Let me go onto a tangent for a moment. Some of you may not need to know this. Some of you may already know. But for those of you who have never heard, or thought of this befor, a word to the wise. If local, state, or federal officials ask, or tell you to evacuate, do not stay. It's not because you are gambling with your own safety. You have the right to do that. It's because you could be gambling with the lives of rescuers later.
Now that I have digressed, back to the subject at hand; the bugout bag.
The Bugout Bag is a concept of creating an easily picked up and transported piece of luggage that contains everything you might *need* if you find yourself in a situation where you have to pick up and leave. Between the hurricanes and the fires, I've decided that this is a good idea. There are varying levels of these bags, from the "I have to take what I need to run to a hotel for a couple of days," to, "I may have to camp in the wilderness." The wilderness one will become important if there is one of those government toppling pandemics, or a Katrina level disaster.
This is at least the begining of a list of things I'm going to begin to gather for a "run for a hotel" bag.
Cloths. (One pair of jeans, sweatpants, 2 t-shirts, 3 pairs underwear, bra, 3 pairs socks.)
Box with my documents. (Copy of my ID, birth cert, marrage cert, Social Security card, passport)
Devoted credit card with no balance.
250.00 cash.
Backup disks of my computers contents.
Camera
Toiletries. (Shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, tampons/pads, astrigent, q-tips)
Washcloth and one towel
That's all I can think of right now.
Let me go onto a tangent for a moment. Some of you may not need to know this. Some of you may already know. But for those of you who have never heard, or thought of this befor, a word to the wise. If local, state, or federal officials ask, or tell you to evacuate, do not stay. It's not because you are gambling with your own safety. You have the right to do that. It's because you could be gambling with the lives of rescuers later.
Now that I have digressed, back to the subject at hand; the bugout bag.
The Bugout Bag is a concept of creating an easily picked up and transported piece of luggage that contains everything you might *need* if you find yourself in a situation where you have to pick up and leave. Between the hurricanes and the fires, I've decided that this is a good idea. There are varying levels of these bags, from the "I have to take what I need to run to a hotel for a couple of days," to, "I may have to camp in the wilderness." The wilderness one will become important if there is one of those government toppling pandemics, or a Katrina level disaster.
This is at least the begining of a list of things I'm going to begin to gather for a "run for a hotel" bag.
Cloths. (One pair of jeans, sweatpants, 2 t-shirts, 3 pairs underwear, bra, 3 pairs socks.)
Box with my documents. (Copy of my ID, birth cert, marrage cert, Social Security card, passport)
Devoted credit card with no balance.
250.00 cash.
Backup disks of my computers contents.
Camera
Toiletries. (Shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, tampons/pads, astrigent, q-tips)
Washcloth and one towel
That's all I can think of right now.
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Date: 2006-05-08 07:34 pm (UTC)I thought everybody kept a bag like that? Except mine has about 200 in cash in it instead of a devoted credit card. Well, and a .38.
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Date: 2006-05-08 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 03:55 am (UTC)