What's in your get home bag?

Something like this would fit inside a small Faraday Cage, pretty easily.Embrio One-Wheel Concept

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I may be wrong but I try to not confuse a GHB with a BOB. I think being light and agile in order to cover more ground quickly is a big deal, at least for me. Cash is important because if needed I can hit the pawn shop across the road from work for a bicycle that could get me home. Roll of quarters in glove box for vending machines if needed.

Water... I have purification tabs but have a First Need filter system. Weighs less than a pound and takes the space of maybe 2 beer cans. I like these because most water near any significant population areas in addition to bacteria and viruses will have toxic chemical contamination. Boiling, tablets and many small filters do not have activated charcoal and will do nothing to remove the chemicals. The First Need does.

A simple food item that I keep because it has good shelf/car life, packs about 2600 calories in protein, fats and carbs into a size just a bit fatter than a pop can and costs less than four bucks is a small 16 oz jar of peanut butter. Not nutritionally complete but pretty good for a couple days trying to get home. You can also get it in squeeze tubes or blended with chocolate. Add some breakfast or granola bars and one can get by for 2-3 days pretty easy. Just an idea...

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I drive 30 miles to work, but straight line is only 19. Have to cross 2 rivers. If I go cross country-straight line, I have to walk across an active artillery impact area. My bag probably has more than I need. 5.11 Covrt 18 bag, paracord, KBar, leatherman, lighters, magnifying glass, GPS, notepad, pens, sharpie, plastic bags, headlamp, flashlight, compass, maps of the local area and the state, minor medical kit with bandaids and meds, compressed gauze, 2 cravats, 2 Combat Gauze, CAT, wire ladder splint, titanium spork, trioxane tabs, canteen with canteen cup, lifestraw, airplane alcohol bottle of bleach, Nalgene bottle, hotel bar of soap, microfiber towel, toilet paper, socks, watchcap, packable rain jacket, poncho, poncho liner, knot instruction card, goal Zero Guide 10 plus solar charger with batteries, trail mix, field stripped MRE, work gloves, 2 carabiners. No firearms because work has a serious (federal) no firearms policy. EDIT: Also duct tape, waterproof matches. Will add a poncho liner in a compression sack in a month when it gets colder.

 

I think the key phrase here is the one to which I added my own emphasis...

We all have different needs (not to mention preferences) that guide our choices. For me, a 25-30 mile trip cross-country could easily be a week's journey if I can't use the river...15-20 years ago it would have been an extended day.

For some of us, "cover more ground quickly..." is a fond memory replaced by priorities of staying alive and moving as one can.

 

I worry for you if you are unable to get home quickly if SHTF. There are multiple problems and why I think getting home quickly is very important:
- My family will worry. Worst case is they try venturing out searching. Alternate comms can be vital here but if out of range this situation is bad long term.
- There is safety in numbers. You need to get home for everyone's safety.
- When things crash, several days or a week in will certainly be more dangerous than the first day or two as people run out of things.
- Your preps at home become more and more vulnerable. You need your preps and they need you to keep them secure.

Maybe something like this could change the equation for some:
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Nice theory, but impossible for me. As long as my wife is there, she will argue everything. She does not hunt, doesn't like guns, and tolerates my hunting. She wants the meat, but doesn't want to know where it comes from. She threw a fit, when I introduced my son to hunting, bought his tags, took him to the hunter safety course. I had to make it very clear it was not her choice, but mine and my son's choice. Knowing she opposes his choice has taken some of the joy from our sport.
Whatever happens, it will fall to me. I can count on some help from my son, my daughter? Well, she would rather run the car off the road, than hit a raccoon. I not sure she could /would pull a trigger until it was too late to matter much.
I get too much interference to teach them at a range, and too little money for private instruction.
The wife will be a liability, due to attitude and medical problems, but it is just one of those things that can not be helped.
Women, can't live with 'em, can't bury 'em in the yard.

 

I work all over the state. I drive 2-5 hours each day. There is no telling where I will be, if everything comes apart. And I am limited as to what I can get away with stashing on a company truck.

 

Well...after 25 years of putting together a system that will protect my family even if I am taken out of the equation on day 1, I am probably a bit less worried about being there to oversee than most...although the week is very much a "worst case" scenario (well...second to worst). To start with, being unable to use the river is pretty unlikely...and once I get on it, I am home (or, at least, to my son's) that day.

 

I added a survival saw and a mirror to my kit. I will probably throw my kabar in it too. With that stuff and more food it should be good.

-Jason

 

i found myself keeping what i may
need in my truck depending on were im at in the country with a bag with evrything i will need no matter what in there at all times