What's in your emergency kit?

[Gunslinger08]

With Hurricane Sandy knocking out power to a large portion of the northern East Coast for days and weeks this year, I realized how woefully unprepared I was for any type of emergency. I'd imagine a lot of you have thought about improving your preparedness as well. What are you including in your emergency kit?

Here are some thoughts which may be a mix of emergency and survival:
- Food. Buy a dozen or two MREs to store?
- Water. Keep a couple cases of bottled water around.
- Solar/crank radio
- Joos Orange solar USB charger
- AA batteries
- Good cheapish LED flash lights
- Some type of lantern that can be used indoors. Solar and/or crank.
- Fire starter
- Fixed blade knife
- Water purification tablets or a bottle/straw filter
- Books/cards/board games

Any recommendations on specific brands/products of any of these things? Anything else you would include?

 

[Baked]

2 semi-automatic pistols. 1 shotgun. 10 boxes of ammo. I'm set.

 

[John Connor]

Ky Jelly. I have to repopulate the world! LOL!

 

[Spike]

AK-47, 1000 rounds.

Then get whatever else I need from the people without guns in their kit

 

[Printer Bandit]

i got an emergency kit in my emergency kit. beat that.

 

[madoka]

I live in California. When the big one hits, I'm moderately prepared to last a couple of months without any aid (assuming my home isn't destroyed). My major weaknesses are water and fuel.

Food and water
- about a month worth of food in two refridgerators, pantry and canned goods
- three cases of US military MREs
- a month worth of freeze dried meals
- 30 gallons of bottled water
- 4 waterbobs (one by each bathtub)
- several different water purification devices

Supplies
- several hundred batteries of all sizes
- a couple thousand dollars worth of medical supplies and advanced first aid kits
- a Yamaha gas powered generator
- several hundred yards of paracord
- two 100 yard rolls of thick plastic sheeting to cover any broken windows
- several charcoal and propane BBQs and portable stoves
- a year's supply of toliet paper
- battery operated radio, cb and ham radio
- three dozen or so flashlights
- three tents and six sleeping bags
- 15 rolls of various duck tape sizes
- portable toliet with disposable bags
- gas cans

Protection (for when baked and spike try to come over)
- several firearms
- over 20,000 of ammo
- level 3 body armor
- buddybar door jammers

If there is a major disaster, I noticed that the plastic sheeting, portable toliets, and the gas cans are not particularly well stocked in stores. I think they would be hard to come by.

 

[Colt45]

Only natural disasters we have are -40 and snow storms. I got AWD and some canned food, candles, blankets, propane heater, etc.

It's nice to be prepared, but jesus. I guess I better get some body armour and 20,000 rounds in case someone wants to take my year's supply of toilet paper. :awe:

 

[Newbian]

i got an emergency kit in my emergency kit. beat that.

Disaster in a disaster?

 

[Newbian]

in case someone wants to take my year's supply of toilet paper. :awe:

You know you want to use it on someone's house in epic tping.

 

[Puppies04]

It's nice to be prepared, but jesus. I guess I better get some body armour and 20,000 rounds in case someone wants to take my year's supply of toilet paper.

Loool

 

[RossMAN]

Nothing, all emergency supplies are provided with our $50,000 per person end of the world underground bunker membership.

 

[Murloc]

I don't have anything except for what's already in the house. I guess it's enough to survive a week? There's plenty of jam, tomato sauce, pasta/rice, cookies etc. and a barrel of gas in the shed.

This is not a disaster prone area (no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no nothing) and the country is neutral and has been unattacked in WW1 and 2 so I guess we're safe.
Plus there's plenty of shelters and emergency sirens cover 98% of the population.
Also I can just break in the adjacent church and hide in their bunker to survive the blast. I know exactly how to get there.
Between private and state bunkers (you can choose to pay a tax to have a place in a communal bunker instead of building one in your house) there is place for everyone and the state maintains 4.5 months supplies too.
There's military conscription and keep-at-home assault rifles so there are enough armed soldiers to keep the order.

 

[Doppel]

My "emergency kit" is a shelf on my basement. I have a decent bit of food, a shit ton of batteries--I never run out of batteries and they have an incredible shelf life, so I often buy them very cheap on Black Friday--a few LED flash lights. Also a camping stove with a couple of cannisters, and a "beer can" type stove with alcohol, so I can actually cook the food I have. I have a couple of clock radios for my radio stuff. Not that much water, but I have a pool so chlorine kicking around, which would let me purify if I needed to. And I suppose if I'm counting I have around 15,000-18,000 gallons of water in the pool

If there is a major disaster, I noticed that the plastic sheeting, portable toliets, and the gas cans are not particularly well stocked in stores. I think they would be hard to come by.

Yep, the average walmart has only a few large gallon gas cans. I bought one after Sandy, but it was impossible during. A lot of stuff is absolutely impossible to buy near or during a disaster.

 

[manimal]

Mother in law owns a farm and 40 acres in downstate Illinois. We drive there and make the sharecroppers our slaves. The barn still has the old manual tilling and farming equipment.

I plan on making a steampunk inspired laboratory there so I can start building my holnist army.


jokeing on the slave part.

 

[pcslookout]

Nothing, all emergency supplies are provided with our $50,000 per person end of the world underground bunker membership.

I already a member.

 

[IronWing]

Fear, panic, urine; I'm set.

 

[Lonyo]

If I lived somewhere that I was afraid I would need to survive a month without any help or fresh supplies after a disaster... I would just move.

 

[Squisher]

I don't have anything except for what's already in the house. I guess it's enough to survive a week? There's plenty of jam, tomato sauce, pasta/rice, cookies etc. and a barrel of gas in the shed.

This is not a disaster prone area (no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no nothing) and the country is neutral and has been unattacked in WW1 and 2 so I guess we're safe.
Plus there's plenty of shelters and emergency sirens cover 98% of the population.
Also I can just break in the adjacent church and hide in their bunker to survive the blast. I know exactly how to get there.
Between private and state bunkers (you can choose to pay a tax to have a place in a communal bunker instead of building one in your house) there is place for everyone and the state maintains 4.5 months supplies too.
There's military conscription and keep-at-home assault rifles so there are enough armed soldiers to keep the order.

That is a pretty cool setup. I too am in an area without too many natural disasters. I see the number one threat as a loss of the power grid and a far second would be highly contagious illness like in the movie Contagion.

About ten years ago the upper midwest of the US lost power for like three days and there were numerous fights all over for goods, mostly gasoline. If it had gone on for 2 weeks no telling what things would be like.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Enough food to last 2 months, rationed properly amongst my family. MREs and the like are great if you're having to carry it but canned, salted, pickled, and dried food is just fine for storing at home.

Propane and propane heaters.

67.5 gallons of water between the water heater and backs of the toilets.

Hand crank emergency radio.

Everyone in my family knows where to meet and what to do should something crazy happen.

Guns and ammo.

This is aside from regular first aid crap.



If any of us actually "needed" more than 2 months of food (IE there's no help from FEMA or state aid) then we would be at a level where people would be forcibly raiding houses and people.

In my mind the most likely situation is some irreparable issue with the power grid, particularly one of the solar flares that actually point towards earth. Because of that I geared my setup towards accounting for total lack of power... IE no water, no police, military, or other government help.

That means that in order to stand in line for your 4 cups of water you would have to hike a number of miles in a completely unregulated society. You think detroit 2012 is bad? 7 rounds Lol....

 

[Anubis]

nothing. dont have one

 

[Fritzo]

1 towel.

 

[olds]

My wife and I have backpacks loaded with everything we would need for 3 days if we had to leave the house. Food/water/clothing/first aid/toiletries/solar radio&charger combo/leatherman/misc.
I also bought fish antibiotics (same as humans use) from Amazon.

If we had to say home we have food/water for 30 days, a generator, guns and ammo.
I do need to get a supply of rolled plastic and duct tape in case we have to shelter in place.

 

[mikeymikec]

Disaster in a disaster?

Yes, it's like a hurricane comes along (Disaster #1), then the power goes out as a result and you can't play computer games (Disaster #2).

 

[skyking]

We are eating more and more fresh food, so the canned goods are not getting circulated. Not so good for the emergency planning. I just thought of a solution; I'll make up a list of canned goods, get them in stock and rotate them out to food banks every year.
We regularly donate so it is just a redirecting.

 

[Mixolydian]

Don't have one, don't need one.