Are you prepared? Got your emergency grab bag ready?

[bellaozzydog]

I only took one rifle, but a lot more food...

Chad warry chat warning

Planning on getting lost?

In my defence the drum mag AK was purely stick out the window, Lebanese unload then ditch as our non b6 vehicles had working windows

Chad warry chat warning over

 

[tonysingh]

I don't need an emergency grab bag, I just put it all in my Chatham Pocket.

 

[Ming]

I carry a small one in a pocket on my work back pack in case the Cascadia fault line goes:
Leather man multi tool
Flashlight
Water purification tablets
Ferro rod, and Bic lighters (paraffin soaked cotton ball tinder).
Bin liner
420 cord bracelet with compass and fishing kit.

My SHTF bag at home’s a bit more complicated.
I was talking about this with a mate at work and he said ‘best survival tool? A gun because then you can get everyone else’s shit’.

 

[T & P]

More than a hundred replies and nobody yet has included a Zombie kit in their bag.

Nice to have met you all...

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Love this thread
...should add 'slippers ' to the bag by the door

When my lodger was dragged out of the house in January by firefighters cos next doors cannabis farm had gone up in large flames, she was in her PJ's and bare feet (having just gone back to bed for the afternoon to sleep off a hangover) and had to wear the other neighbour's icky slippers (sje wasnt allowed back in for hours)

 

[Ming]

I’ve got a huge torch.

 

[Ming]

More than a hundred replies and nobody yet has included a Zombie kit in their bag.

Nice to have met you all...

Shotgun and chainsaw.

 

[Humberto]

baccy and skins

 

[krtek a houby]

All you need is love

 

[Ming]

All you need is love

It's all you need.

 

[Ming]

This fellow is knowledgeable and very funny (some jokes which may offend).

 

[dessiato]

Whilst I had go bags in a number of previous jobs; chocolate, pens and batteries formed most of the content. In home life though:

• Condoms*
• My favourite soft toy
• A copy of À la recherche du temps perdu with each volume printed on waterproof paper and indexed with tabs for quick reference in an emergency
• An anglepoise lamp
• Some gerbils
• A comfy armchair
• Some kind of brass instrument (tuba or above)
• Matchmakers - mint flavour - so when some one asks if anyone has a match I can get them out and then look hurt when they call me a fuckwit
• A jaunty hat made of ballistic ripstock nylon in tactical black, with a feather
• More condoms**

Starter for 10.

* You can use them to carry up to three pints of water, dress a badly cut finger or make an emergency catapult for killing game or deterring large carnivores .

** and those ones as well, sigh...

You need tampons and alcohol based hand cleaner gel on your list. They both help to make fire starting easier. Assuming you've a source of ignition of course.

 

[friedaweed]

You need tampons and alcohol based hand cleaner gel on your list. They both help to make fire starting easier. Assuming you've a source of ignition of course.

Haven't we had a few threads discouraging people from starting fires in their minges?

 

[8ball]

Baldrick kept a bullet with his name on it.

Back in the War, my Grandad used to say the only bomb you needed to worry about was the one with your name on it.

Though he mostly said this to wind up his neighbours, Mr and Mrs Doodlebug.

 

[bellaozzydog]

This fellow is knowledgeable and very funny (some jokes which may offend).

“Very funny jokes” ..................... if you are stanning on Peter Sutcliffe perhaps

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I think I have something like this but I tend to just call it Rum.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Some places I have prepped and carried a Go-bag....Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Kurdistan, Sudan, Kosovo, Chad, Siberia, Columbia.



Places I have never used a Go-bag, Ardnamurchan

What the fuck are these lunatics on about

Ah see something lost in the translation there: Aird na Murchan= Height of Murder. Known to gaels as the murder capital of the Gaelic speaking world - though never caught due to their shrewd ways.

 

[StoneRoad]

After 9/11 and the London bombings I was working in the middle of another conurbation and commuting a serious distance, so I developed something akin to this sort of "grab bag" but amended to suit the circumstances of a potential evacuation and homeward journey.

 

[brogdale]

Emergency 'grab bag' campaign - prepared, not scared

September is preparedness month. Emergencies can happen at any time and it's recommended to have a #GrabBag ready containing essential items including medication, copies of important documents, seasonal clothing, food/water, torch, radio, pen, paper, whistle and other personal items.

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What is in your #GrabBag, and where do you keep it?

 

[kabbes]

If there’s a proper full-on emergency, why would I leave my house? I’m safer there than anywhere else. I’m not some urban victim of city terrorism or river-flooded valley dweller. I’m in the hills and surrounded by safe, empty land. My biggest worry is fighting off the hordes that will be trying to move in.

And if I’m not at my house, how am I grabbing this house-bound grab bag anyway?

 

[brogdale]

If there’s a proper full-on emergency, why would I leave my house? I’m safer there than anywhere else. I’m not some urban victim of city terrorism or river-flooded valley dweller. I’m in the hills and surrounded by safe, empty land. My biggest worry is fighting off the hordes that will be trying to move in.

And if I’m not at my house, how am I grabbing this house-bound grab bag anyway?

Have to admit I've not got the bag...just the bottles...and they're under the stairs...so I'm going nowhere. Thread fail danny la rouge

 

[kabbes]

I even have an electricity generator, a well and enough fuel to make tea for many months to come. Although I better stock up on tea bags.

 

[danny la rouge]

Have to admit I've not got the bag...just the bottles...and they're under the stairs...so I'm going nowhere. Thread fail danny la rouge

No, you fail.

 

[campanula]

I have a basket which sits by the door. I have a puffer, secateurs, plastic bags (for seeds or dog-poo), a spare tenner, ranitidine for heartburn and a packet of Werther's originals. To be fair, my basket (willow) is basically a handbag which accompanies me when I go out...while the items in it are useful, everyday things rather than some apocalypse prepper package.

If the 4 horsemen appear on the horizon, I extend a welcome to any Urbs who fancy a radical treehouse collective.

 

[davesgcr]

I have planted about 50 onions today.

 

[danny la rouge]

If there’s a proper full-on emergency, why would I leave my house? I’m safer there than anywhere else. I’m not some urban victim of city terrorism or river-flooded valley dweller. I’m in the hills and surrounded by safe, empty land. My biggest worry is fighting off the hordes that will be trying to move in.

And if I’m not at my house, how am I grabbing this house-bound grab bag anyway?

Let’s tag @PoliceScotland and ask them.

 

[Proper Tidy]

If there’s a proper full-on emergency, why would I leave my house? I’m safer there than anywhere else. I’m not some urban victim of city terrorism or river-flooded valley dweller. I’m in the hills and surrounded by safe, empty land. My biggest worry is fighting off the hordes that will be trying to move in.

And if I’m not at my house, how am I grabbing this house-bound grab bag anyway?

This is nothing personal, but hopefully you'd be leaving your home because it's a big posh house and the mob are coming

 

[brogdale]

No, you fail.

Was that meant to be fall?

 

[kabbes]

This is nothing personal, but hopefully you'd be leaving your home because it's a big posh house and the mob are coming

There’s much, much bigger and posher all around me. I’d be fine for long enough to do the right thing with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver.

 

[kebabking]

There’s much, much bigger and posher all around me. I’d be fine for long enough to do the right thing with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver.

Absolutely.

A swig of Dutch courage, and then pop outside with the revolver to restore some order over the marauding mob.