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#282378 - 10/07/16 06:51 PM Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour?
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
Seems like a good time to practice, so here's your test for the weekend.
Assuming a large event and you have to bug out; either do an actual test packing a bag or just write down what you would take...limit is one hour

Teacher

PS No we're fine. Not a lot of hurricanes in Berkley

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#282380 - 10/07/16 07:08 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: TeacherRO]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Is this a temporary bug out or a permanent one?

Jeanette Isabelle
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#282383 - 10/08/16 12:31 AM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
Given the abundant forecasting of hurricanes and their paths, why would you ever be restricted to one hour in preparing for evacuation?

We have a posted check list - people, pets, photos, important papers. We have packed for real on two occasions in far less than one hour.
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#282385 - 10/08/16 07:10 AM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: hikermor]
Bingley Offline
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Registered: 02/27/08
Posts: 1576
Originally Posted By: hikermor
Given the abundant forecasting of hurricanes and their paths, why would you ever be restricted to one hour in preparing for evacuation?


My buddies and I hold packing competitions as we await hurricane's arrival. We do round robin, so one hour is the most we can spare per round.

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#282402 - 10/09/16 03:27 AM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: TeacherRO]
Dagny Offline
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Registered: 11/25/08
Posts: 1918
Loc: Washington, DC

I do so many 2-4 day roadtrips that I am permanently packed so this drill is a piece of cake. For starters, my SUV is always well-equipped with survival gear, including enough firesteels to ignite 50,000 conflagrations. My front hall closet is where I store camping gear.

In 20 minutes or so I could have bags in the car containing a week's worth of clothes, toiletries, etc. Maybe 10 minutes to put a couple bicycles on the hitch-mounted rack.

If this scenario is some horrible event that would preclude coming home for a long while and would empty out the city then I'd spend the next half-hour filling up coolers with food and beverages.

Being so prepared, I might beat my neighbors to the freeway -- where I'd sit for the next 14 hours crawling toward the Beltway and depleting my fuel tank.

Mass evac in my area is a grim prospect. It will not be quick and it would be scary.


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#282405 - 10/09/16 04:05 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: Dagny]
Newsman Offline
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Registered: 01/28/10
Posts: 67
Loc: NW Arkansas
Dagny makes a good point about getting on the route out, then getting stuck.

Watching the most recent highway gridlock in Florida the realization I had is that it does not matter how well you are prepared, if you don't get out early then you'll be on the road with everybody else. Which means the miles you can drive on a tank of gas plummets. And as I saw on TV filling back up may be a nightmare unto itself.

Thankfully, here in northwest Arkansas, evac for a hurricane is not on our required skill set.

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#282406 - 10/09/16 04:16 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: Newsman]
Russ Offline
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
Bug-out early or plan to bug-in. Anyone in the hurricane's potential path who was keeping up with current events would have topped off the tank and packed their bags well ahead of the evacuation order; then you wait to see where it's really going. When the threat becomes evident, just leave -- before the evac order. Otherwise you are stuck in traffic rather than leading the first wave. Like me after a wildfire starts up to the east with a Santa Ana pushing it -- pack the truck and leave it packed, keep the fuel tank above 3/4.

The 1 hour thing is a nice academic exercise, but really unrealistic.

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#282411 - 10/09/16 06:38 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: TeacherRO]
wildman800 Offline
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Registered: 11/09/06
Posts: 2846
Loc: La-USA
Avoid getting stuck in the herd. Leave early or let the herd pass (12hrs) and then fly like the wind!
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#282412 - 10/09/16 07:25 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: TeacherRO]
UTAlumnus Offline
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Registered: 03/08/03
Posts: 1019
Loc: East Tennessee near Bristol
Grab records binder & sling bag.
Laptop & external drive in travel bag.
Backpacking food and travel snacks from the kitchen
Handful of extra clothes from closet
Toiletries and minimal clothes are always in the car.

The list would change if the reason to bug out changed.

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#282429 - 10/10/16 10:44 PM Re: Hurricane drill - What can you pack in an hour? [Re: TeacherRO]
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
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