Good afternoon all!
Wife has been away all weekend, so I've been keeping busy checking expiration dates, filling up gas and water cans, etc. Anyway, went to Home Depot to replace my falling-apart dinky plastic container. It's huge! So, of course since I have space, I need to fill it (right?).
This is suburbia. My wife, dog and I. Essentially the idea is a fast evac for hurricanes, or maybe moving to our duty station if we're called into work. I suspect we have enough pantry food for 3-5 days. This is a "get out of the area" idea.
First, the basics. I have a case of MRE's, and 10 3-liter water bottles next to this case. Camping supplies are one shelf over. My mental image is grabbing all of it, but the trunk is the core. BOB's are stacked on top of this trunk.
The Trunk! 45-gallon power pack. Seems pretty robust.
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-...p;storeId=10051Shelter:
2 wool blankets, 1 8x10foot blue tarp.
50 feet nylon cord (civilian version of 550)
50 feet of braided rope.
Tools:
1 Mora knife
1 pair of work gloves
1 tea-candle lantern with 50 candles
About 30 cyalume sticks
Some hand warmers
1 large Trioxane stove
About 30 triox tabs
1 2-liter pot with 5 books of matches (in ziplock)
Small waterproof container with about $100 in bills
FAK/Snivel:
Toiletry kit for wife and I
Small FAK, including female-products. No meds, but only b/c they expired and I just tossed them. (BTW, each car is well stocked w/ a FAK)
Water:
3 liters, in 1/2L bottles. Like I said, water is mainly outside the kit.
Food:
MRE x 4
Mayday survival ration x 2
5lbs rice
3 bags of mixed-bean "soup" prep kits.
12-pack of Ramen noodles
2 dehydrated Mtn House "veggie medley" packets (pretty small)
2 cans spam
2 cans tuna (probably getting more soon)
2 cans of chicken
About 20 Gatorade G2 packets (approved by military as ORS!)
OK, so what am I missing? Multitool is on the list. Maybe a headlamp. Travel board game?
Thanks in advance.