Geez, jake, I never heard that!! I better get my sorry butt over to the
SaveOn foods and buy up some flour sugar and rice, canola oil, and a buncha
canned goods! Thanks bud!
Courtney
Nanaimo, BC (smack in the middle of V.I.!!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake de Villiers" <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag

> 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?
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com