Emergency Kit
These are the items I have in our kit, is there anything I am missing (none of us are on prescription meds nor do we have eye-glasses)? 3-days worth of non-perishable food (for each human, no can opener needed) 3-days worth of non-perishable food (for each dog, no can opener needed) collar & leash (1 for each Oliver and Lucy) mess kit, bowls moist toweletts plastic bags matches extra change of clothes for each person boots for dogs with solid soles first aid kit 6 gallons of drinking water hand-crank flash-light hand-crank radio plastic sheeting and duct tape dust masks wrench |
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| Well, guess I'll be the first to recommend an item to my own list... a knife. I really need to put a knife in the kit. |
| Good job! I have a similar list put together except the food items. I also have some in a kit in my car..... I need to organize some human and dog food. Thinking perhaps a small sealed bag of food for the dogs, and then replace it every couple months?? Where are you keeping yours? Mine is not all together in one spot, but I know where it all is. |
| Here are a few items that might come in handy: Rain poncho for each human Area maps in the event the usual routes are closed Work gloves Toothbrush for each human Paracord (you never know when you’ll need a good piece of rope) Bible or other reading material |
| In my area the greatest risk of natural disaster is a tornado, so I am keeping mine in our "safe spot", which is in the basement under the stairwell. I have everything in a giant plastic tote, and a few blankets within an arm's reach. I guess I'm just thinking that in a height of a disaster I won't have time or I will forget to grab things; hence the extra collars/leash. Dawn, you being a nurse have more experience at being able to think and act rationally in stressful situations, I've never been in that situation, so I'm not sure how I will react. I thought about the dry dog food, but decided to just get canned. Not the most ideal, but logically makes more sense for me. I won't remember to refresh the dry food in the tote every 3 months, so with canned I can just go through it once a year and change all of our food (human and dog) at the same time. It's not what they are used to being on, but will work in an emergency situation. This is another reason I had to get a giant tote: do you have any idea how much canned food it takes it feed 130 lbs of sheepdogs for 3 days  ! |
| Thanks Marlene! A map and rope is an excellent idea! |
| I have most of mine in the Element, guessing that it will be closest no matter where I go, or if just at home. Our basement is a dirt floor cellar, so no way anything will get stored down there! I have the maps, rope, first aid kit, blanket, and rain ponchos in the Element already...but need to add the umbrella (and with this weather, not so sure I shouldn't leave the ice scraper in as well!  ) I have a nasty chicken deboning tool that lives in my car as well...scared my 20 yr old son...wondering WHAT his mom was doing driving around w/ that in her car! It is very sharp and strong, I even have used it for pruning branches...We also tent camp, so I have a ton of supplies in 2 totes in my garage that can be grabbed - it has most everything we would need for life outside the house. I keep water in gallon jugs year round here as well. It was handy this past fall when our well went out, but mainly it is for use if the power goes off. On a farm, no electricity means no water - as the pump won't run. Being prepared is great  |
| A few more suggestions for your emergency preparations/kit: Sturdy shoes (if the emergency sirens sound in the middle of the night, you’ll want to have something other than bedroom slippers available) Hand sanitizer (in an emergency, you’ll need all stored water for consumption) Photocopies (or electronic copies on a flash drive) of important papers (birth certificates, drivers licenses, wills/trusts, credit cards, bank account information, family photos, etc.) A few hand warmer packets if you live in a cold-climate area While not stored in your kit, make a mental note to grab some cash (small bills) and your firearm when you hear the sirens (or feel the earthquake, or see the flood waters rising, or whatever). Where we are, our SUV is, so, like Dawn, most of our kit is either in the vehicle or close-by in the garage … |
| Here's my recommendation for EVERYONE: Back up your computer regularly onto an external hard drive or other device. I learned the hard way and lot many, many photos forever. Some other word/excel documents but they are not as important to me as the photos. I have now emailed many remaining photos to myself, so that I can always find a copy. Actually, many of my recovered emails are from copies I had emailed..... |
tgir wrote: Here's my recommendation for EVERYONE: Back up your computer regularly onto an external hard drive or other device. I learned the hard way and lot many, many photos forever. Some other word/excel documents but they are not as important to me as the photos. I have now emailed many remaining photos to myself, so that I can always find a copy. Actually, many of my recovered emails are from copies I had emailed..... Or you can just get a Flickr account and keep everything there, that way you have a copy that's way away from everything of yours. If they're photos you don't want to share, you can always mark them private so they won't be searchable. The only things I keep saved to my physical computer are applications and things that some might find somewhat illegal.  |
| If your kids have a bike helmet...know where it is..keep in an easy place to grab...saved a 9 year old life when in the bathtub the toilet blew up and hit him in the head...Mother said he had heard it a few weeks before and grabbed it when they went to the bathroom. Being a teacher/librarian for 31 years...we practiced going in the hallways with a book over our heads....one of my former schools was hit by a tornado luckily on a Saturday...the whole wing where I worked was blown away...concrete walls and all...would have been bad with 200 students sitting in the hallway with just a book to protect them...I'm not sure there's anywhere safe during something like this except the old cellar they use to build...remember the Wizard of Oz? Pray for all the people affected...can't imagine loosing a loved one, your home, your car and being faced with a funeral somewhere, somehow or worse...not knowing where your loved is but knowing they died. Really makes you realize how little material possessions really mean anything in the scheme of everything. |
ButtersStotch wrote: tgir wrote: Here's my recommendation for EVERYONE: Back up your computer regularly onto an external hard drive or other device. I learned the hard way and lot many, many photos forever. Some other word/excel documents but they are not as important to me as the photos. I have now emailed many remaining photos to myself, so that I can always find a copy. Actually, many of my recovered emails are from copies I had emailed..... Or you can just get a Flickr account and keep everything there, that way you have a copy that's way away from everything of yours. If they're photos you don't want to share, you can always mark them private so they won't be searchable. The only things I keep saved to my physical computer are applications and things that some might find somewhat illegal. Flickr is fine for photos. I also lost (less regrettably) some word and excel documents I would have liked to have had. No paper copies. Currently 3 of my kids are students and so have a lot of research papers, and other school papers and projects on their computers. If you have such ongoing projects, you really should have them backed up and saved in some other way so that if your computer dies or is destroyed, you haven't lost important work. I was going to suggest that you should have some electronic storage that contains all of your account information. You definitely want to have bank acct. information, insurance policies, credit card info, birth/marriage certificates, etc. stored in some fashion someplace other than your physical home and such that you can access it from a remote location if necessary. |
| I pay five dollars a month for Carbonite...it backs up everything on my computer files daily and stores them...I don't have to do anything...it took a few hours the first time and then it does it each day without you having to activate it...photos are worth the $5 a month. |
| EXCELLENT point about insurance policies, tgir! A copy of the dec page of your Homeowner’s and Auto Insurance policies would be invaluable in the event of a natural disaster. I’m scanning my policies now and storing them a) at Carbonite off-site storage and b) on my emergency kit flash drive! |
| CARBONITE! Thanks. I knew there was at least one site for this sort of storage but have had too much else going on at home to investigate! Will look into it immediately! |
Gus & Us wrote: EXCELLENT point about insurance policies, tgir! A copy of the dec page of your Homeowner’s and Auto Insurance policies would be invaluable in the event of a natural disaster. I’m scanning my policies now and storing them a) at Carbonite off-site storage and b) on my emergency kit flash drive! Now that's a great idea: emergency kit flash drive! |
| You might want to also add a copy of your pets shots records and other pet vital information...I recommend keeping everything in ONE place...Having just gone through a fire, during a diastererous event, there is no time to go searching in different places for things. You will be too busy getting everyone to safety. |
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