Interesting that you ask this today.

The morning radio said that there has been increased seismic activity along
the fault line under Vancouver Island in the last 48 hours and that we might
be in for an "Event" in the next two weeks.

No fun at all.

Jake

On 2/2/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> If you had to, could you be gone in 30 minutes and self sufficent for
> several days?  What would you take, knowing that perhaps when you
> returned,
> nothing would remain.  The Vanagon is a capable emergency shelter if
> outfitted properly.  What would you put in that git-box?  What kind of box
> would it be?  The folks in Florida had a middle of the night visitor that
> flattened their lives, their fortunes but not their honor.  What's in your
> bug-out bag?  Cell phone and Visa card?  Full-on-conditions urban/ex-urban
> survival stuff?  Batteries for the x-box or MRE's?  Canned tuna or
> doritos.
> Sorels or sandals?
>
> Long ago, my friend Bill skied a last run off the back of Mount Rose Ski
> Area in a fog and wound up below the last chairlift thousands of feet
> above
> the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of
> date
> lift ticket.  He walked out to US395 after spending a very cold night in
> the
> trees.  Later that month, just outside a cozy ski cabin in Squaw Valley, I
> tried Bill's trick and spent the night outside in the snow with just what
> I
> would have been carrying had I been skiing.  Sobering experience.  Bill
> was
> lucky, had the clouds gone away the temperature would have dropped
> precipitously and he likely would have died of hypothermia.
>
> So what's in YOUR Bug-out Bag?  Where would you go if you HAD to?  How
> would
> you adapt, improvise, and overcome?
>

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Jake
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