Well, I don't have a BOB, per say. However, I keep a change of clothes, toiletries, a poncho and heavy boots in my car (ever wake up someplavce you didn't plan on? I have). My EDC stays in my jeans, which sit on a chair next to my sneakers at night. I have my jacket on a peg next to the door.

I'm good on gear, ok on water, and set on calories *pokes jiggly belly* if I have to run out the door in the middle of the night.

If I know I'm looking at a storm, the BOB get's put together. The rest of the time, most of the BOB-ish stuff lives in a milk crate in the closet that has my jacket and the backpack that really should be dedicated to BOB but usually has school books in it. Realistically, I can evac with it in 15 minutes, if I bother to put everything in BOB properly, rather than just tossing my pack on my back, grabbing the milk crate, and going. Grabbing the milk crate, my better boots, and the bag of my camping socks (next to the better boots) takes about a minute.

And if it is an ordered evactuation for something moving slow, I take ten minutes and pull my harddrive. For me to leave my computer (or at least his soul) behind is like leaving a pet behind. I could do it, but when I had time to mourn Lazarus, I would. (Yes, I'm emotionally attached to my computer. I'm a geek.)

Oh, and Bee, for point of reference, I'm about 1.5 degrees south of you, and maybe a degree east. So we are largely in the same boat, you just get an hour or two before I do.