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Originally Posted by daffy4u
What Ricky said except my radio is a hand crank type with a built in light and it will charge a cell phone (if the towers are up and working).
I don't carry as much water as I should but I do have special filtering water bottle. I also have:
- A Swiss Army knife
- My medications (my doctor gave me samples to keep in my kit)
- Latex gloves (don't want no stinking cooties)
- An old pair of eye glasses (I keep the last pair for my kit when I get new ones)
- MREs (they're not just for the military anymore
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- Miscellaneous other stuff in a rolling backpack.
In the trunk of my car, just because I might them need it for work, I have all kinds of weather gear, chairs, a block battery, a fire extinguisher, some Crocks. |
The hand cranked radios are really nice. And, I also keep a supply of my meds in my first aid kit, as well as my reading glasses. MREs are a great idea. I used to just keep a lot of granola bars and such, but I think now I will see about picking some of those up as well.
The big reason I keep so much pet food in the garage here (usually about a three month supply) is because of the occasional natural disaster (such as the ice storm we had here winter before last) that can keep people from being able to get out of the valley to stores. (During that storm I took in those animals that got lost nearby and wandered into the valley ... for ten days this place was more of a zoo than usual.)
I generally keep several weeks of non-MRE but very long date storage food here for me as well. Also 30 gallons of bottled water, with 5 gallons as a back up (on hand at all times).
I'm not in the car as much as I used to be ... so most of my disaster supplies are just here at the house ... but I would never be without them because ... as they say ... shit happens.