a meaningful terrorist attack<\/a>.<\/p>\nSo the kits break into two parts: What we try and have with us, and what we have at home.<\/p>\n
What we have with us is primarily designed to get us home. Because I have children, unless I can be convinced that my entire neighborhood is a giant smoking crater, or communicate with someone who has my children and is getting them somewhere safe, I’m heading home. End of subject.<\/p>\n
This is a small, cheap day pack that we can leave in the car or at the office.<\/p>\n
It contains:<\/p>\n
Light hiking boots (hell, we own them, and why leave them in the closet where they just take up space?)
\nSocks (I’m likely to be wearing dress socks, and TG is likely to be wearing hose)
\nPants and a sweatshirt
\nA poncho
\nFive or six Power Bars
\nFive or six GU Gel packs (food you squeeze)
\nTwo bottles of water, and some water purification tablets
\nTwo bandanas
\nA Leatherman multi-tool
\nA decent knife (Spyderco Delicia)
\n50′ of 4mm perlon cord
\nA locking carabiner
\nMore first-aid stuff (pretty much what I carry in my motorcycle suit):
\n – 2 battle dressings
\n – 2 – 4 x 4 gauze pads
\n – 1 CPR shield
\n – 2 pairs nitrile gloves
\n – vial with core prescriptions
\n – bottle of aspirin
\n – Imodium
\nA spare pair of prescription glasses for each of us (what else do you do with old glasses?)
\nTwo black heavy-duty trash bags
\nTarp with eyelets in the corners
\n4 – 6″ zip ties
\nScorpion Streamlight
\n2 spare lithium batteries<\/p>\n
– and a partridge in a pear tree.<\/p>\n
Basically, with this kit, I could – comfortably – cover 20 – 30 miles in a day on foot in pretty much any weather condition I’m likely to face here in SoCal, bivvy for the night, and have enough stuff to do it again another day.<\/p>\n
We already owned everything in the kits, except the backpacks, leatherman, knife, carabiner, flashlight, and perlon cord. Total investment, maybe $150 each if you buy a good multi-tool. <\/p>\n
At home, we have:<\/p>\n
Water (5 extra 5 ga Sparkletts distilled water bottles; we use and rotate them when we change the water in the fish tank)
\nFood (a 20 ga ‘tupperware’ container full of canned and dried food, plus camping cooking gear, the car camping propane stove and a couple of propane cylinders)
\nFirst Aid (the big kit described here)
\nTools (a Sears roller cabinet full)
\nA wonderbar (pry bar) in the bedroom closet, in case we have to pry open jammed doors
\nA shutoff wrench that fits the city water valve
\nA crescent wrench swedged onto a wire loop at the gas meter<\/p>\n
If I were to add antiterrorism to the kit, I’d consider adding:<\/p>\n
Potassium iodide (antiradiation)
\nSome high-end respirators (not gas masks, but the ones with fine carbon filters)
\nFour or five sheets of Visqueen (disposable painter’s tarp)
\nFive or ten rolls of duct tape
\nSome starter packs of a broad-spectrum antibiotic
\nA couple of Tyvek (disposable) overalls<\/p>\n
I’m thinking about it…<\/p>\n
JK Note:<\/b> Don’t miss his Super First Aid Kit<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of the folks I know have an abiding belief in survival; some of them become survivalists and center their lives around it, which has always struck me as kinda weird. But I find that I can often learn useful things from them, even if we may disagree about how central those useful things ought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}