The local TV news just did a brief story, a bit over-hyped, with the teaser: "If you were given five minutes to gather everything important in an emergency and leave your home, would you be prepared? What kind of things would you bring?".

I don't know that there was anything new in it; I mention it only as more evidence that BOBs have gone mainstream.

For the curious, you can compare your own BOBs to the Red Cross kits in the links shown in the story. I thought the family disaster plan was pretty well thought out.