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Comment by dole

2 years ago

A “Bug Out Bag” is a pretty standard notion in the prepper and survival communities, also handy for fleeing disasters and power outages.

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throwup238  2 years ago

It’s also recommended by CALFIRE in California: https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/emergency-...

  • bee_rider  2 years ago

    It seems like a good thing to have in general. A few days of food? Good if society collapses… or also if you have a real bad storm. Having it in a bag, eh, well why not, right?

    • leptons  2 years ago

      Earthquakes are a thing in California too, a very real threat. Flooding in Southern California is something that could happen too especially with climate change, and we live right next to a major waterway. We have our emergency kit in a very large thick rubber waterproof bag. We also have water filtration devices in there. Nobody I know is prepared as well as we are, not even a little bit prepared.

    • dylan604  2 years ago

      If society collapses, a few days of food is not going to do too much for you except maybe delay the suffering by a few days. If that's your intent for the bug out bag, you might want to reconsider. If it's for getting out to allow a natural disaster to subside, it's more than probably a good idea

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    • ben_w  2 years ago

      A few days food is a normal kitchen cupboard — singular cupboard, not the whole kitchen.

      A few weeks was what I kept ready during the pandemic, just in case I got ill and didn't want to go shopping for a fortnight. Plenty of natural disasters are in that kind of range, even outside the pandemic.

      Civilisation collapsing needs a stockpile of about however many months it would take for you to turn your garden into a residential farm and get to harvest season, plus a bit for if that doesn't work… or if raccoons steal in the night everything the ravens didn't steal in the day.

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ocschwar  2 years ago

I don't want to stoke panic about violence, but the fact is anything that you do that's prepper-adjacent is something you should do anyway:

1. prep your residence in can't you can't leave for days on end - something you should do to prepare for h5n1.

2. stock a bug out bag: most of you are in range of wild fires. So you need to do it.