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Time To Get Prepared

Kim du Toit
May 23, 2006
7:55 AM CDT

It’s getting close to that time, folks. Hurricane season approaches, tornado season getting into stride, and New England’s already had spring floods.

Because I get so many requests to re-post the “Grab-N-Go Bag” piece, I’ll just link to it here.

Grab-N-Go Bag

Incidentally, since Katrina/Rita, I’ve added a second tub with extra food. Now we’ve got about two weeks of food and water, ready to go in ten (10) minutes.

I think I’ll update the post one of these days, when I have the time.




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  1. A side note:

    A lot of the flashlights people have in their inventories need to be updated with more modern hardware.  Instead of old-style bulb lamps, get the newer LED types (there are conversion kits for Mag-Lites, and Mag-Lite is starting to sell OEM LED flashlights now).

    The new lights put out a respectable amount of power and get five times (or more) the battery life.  I have a bicycle headlight that’s damned bright, and uses three AAA batteries that get up to 30 hours of use before getting noticeably dimmer.  The LEDs also don’t have to be replaced as often as the old-style bulbs.

    In a bad situation, you’ll have a light source that will be good for weeks instead of days (or months instead of weeks).

    cirby | 5/23/2006 09:29 AM CDT | #63527
  2. Additionally, folks need to be encouraged to pre-plan a place to go if it hits the fan. Just driving “somewhere” doesn’t cut it. The one lesson I am sure we can all agree upon after Katrina is NEVER BECOME A REFUGEE.

    Achilles | 5/23/2006 12:21 PM CDT | #63539
  3. Not “preplan a place.” Preplan places.

    Planning a visit to Cousin Joe 100 miles inland is pretty useless if Joe loses his house to a big tree that falls on the place after the hurricane does a straight-line track through his town.  Alternate route planning is also a must - in case of Big Bad Things, some routes will become impassable.

    You also need separate plans for prompt versus gradual evacuation.  A bugout plan for a hurricane is going to be much, much easier and less fraught than a plan in case of (for example) a tsunami or a terror scenario.

    cirby | 5/23/2006 12:47 PM CDT | #63540
  4. The time to get ready is NOW.
    Yesterday would have been even better.
    Like THE MRS I was born and raised in the LA area. For the disaster that is most likely there, you get absolutely NO WARNING. People in Hurricane Alley have it easy, compared to those in seismically active zones.

    acanthostega | 5/23/2006 01:00 PM CDT | #63541
  5. Thanks for this helpful post and the comments are right on target.  It’s hard when you’re knee deep in your brackish moldy former possessions to feel fortunate, but having a shot at getting out before the earth opens up is a pretty big advantage--good luck and G_d’s blessings to all you left bank crack dwellers.  I was pleased to see the m1 carbine in Tim’s gotta go gun kit.  Three of the little beauties + 870 12 ga. + semi-auto G3 + misc. handguns and huntin’ knives when evac’ing from Katrina.  My sons, 12 and 15 can handle their carbines safely and accurately and it’s an interesting and worthwhile lesson in national commitment to look at who manufactured them (theirs are IBM and Underwood; my little prize is a Rock-Ola--imagine that--corporate America actually helping a war effort).

    Ay Uaxe | 5/23/2006 04:03 PM CDT | #63566
  6. Nice to see this blog. I was just thinking of redoing my SHTF supplies. I have a hodgepodge of grab n go stuff, but it is a real mess right now, all over the place, it would need too much grabbing. I need to go out and buy another tub or two - had a few but they have disappeared filled by other stuff out in the shed now - because I too find them desirable to hold survival items - but I also find them really great to use to tidy up the shed and she who must be obeyed wnated the garage and shed cleaned up earlier this spring. I have got to get my priorities set right.

    Well I need to go out and buy some spam, a case or two, and I don’t care if no one else in the family except for my son and I like it. Then some other canned items. We have some MREs, water, water purification canteens, plenty of batteries, some flashlights, first aide kits, fishing gear, gun cleaning gear, ammo, guns, duct tape, more duct tape, light sticks, and most of everything we need. Still it is a good idea to go over it all and put it all in one or two containers for easy bug out.

    One thing I do not currently have that I used too - I gave them away as gifts years ago- are gold coins.  I figure a couple or few of small denominatuion gold coins and maybe about 20 or so silver dollars might be a good thing to have. Now if I could afford them.

    Glenn Bartley | 5/23/2006 11:36 PM CDT | #63593
  7. I just spent two days at an exercise centered around a massive quake (9.0, 4-5 minutes duration) on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, followed by a tsunami (the CSZ is located offshore of the Pacific NW, from northern CA to Vancouver Island in BC).

    Long story short-it would make Katrina look like a picnic.  Large scale disruption of transportation systems along the I-5 corridor and even worse on the coast and E-W routes over the coast range.  The lucky folks on the coast would have around 30 minutes warning before the wave hit, some as little as 10 minutes.  And they could potentially be on their own for as long as 3 weeks or so before large scale relief could get to them-and that likely might be naval forces from San Diego.

    I really need to work on my go-bag/box.

    Heartless Libertarian | 5/24/2006 10:02 PM CDT | #63688

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