BOB
The recent situation in Japan has me pondering my bug out bag again. Hit me with resources and ideas.
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March 16th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Shameless self promotion: (But I think it has the info you need)
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/2010/05/bob.html
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/2010/05/main-pack-bob-continued-my-primary-bob.html
email me with questions.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:10 am
Radiation leaks are the perfect time to hunker down in place, especially if you have a basement. Most radiation spewed from plants gets absorbed by the slightest barrier; moisture in the air, trees, other buildings, even clothes are enough to block you absorbing small enough amounts, but the cesium particles blowing in the wind from burning fuel rods are super bad, and you don’t want them near you or on you, or in your lungs. Turn off your HVAC system and wait until the fallout stops. If you can stay at home until a good rain has gone through, even better.
Water makes a great radiation barrier (hence why its used in the cooling pools in nuke plants) so you can also create a little fort in your basement out of stacked boxes of bottled water and wait until the fallout has stopped coming down (assuming you don’t have a fully enclosed navy surplus submarine in your backyard pool). Then when you end up going outside, don’t touch the ground more than necessary, cover your mouth and noise to avoid breathing in the particles, and once you get back inside abandon your shoes outside, quickly take a very soapy shower and change clothes.
Of course, if you have lots of warning, know which way the wind is blowing and have a place to go that’s further away from the hotzone than your house/apartment, by all means g.o.o.d.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Listening to Katrina helped me get my things together. Though I admit I’m keep hearing the siren’s call of the “everything I need to live in the woods” BoB mentality. All the gear is so shiny. Don’t be like me.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Consider a good first aid kit, I used one of 5:11 6×6 bags and built my own. Several trauma items, along with the regular stuff
March 16th, 2011 at 10:44 am
Bug out? Because . . . the mother in law? Avoiding cleaning out the garage? Pollen season?
There has to be a pyschological reason for this obession in gunnutdom.
March 16th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Meh,
I call it my “the house is on fire” bag. Just something I keep in the cars that will let me grab two cats, the wife and by night stand table belongings and get into the car.
Living in the woods? Am I the only one that finds this fantasy slightly hillarious? I used to help out with a scout troop. seeing the parents who begrugdingly came camping would have provided me with endless humor if they weren’t so damn annoying and needy.
March 16th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Water filtration. last one ive been looking into is these, but they seem to keep their efforts into selling to the poor in areas where they need it: http://www.lifestraw.com
March 16th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Here’s what is in ours:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30808148/Vehicle-Load-Out Starting on page 3
March 16th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
seconding the Listening to Katrina site. tons and tons and TONS of useful info there.
March 16th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
For where you and I live, potassium iodide. I bought some a few years ago in case something goes kerblooie at one of TVA’s nuclear reactors or at ORNL.
March 16th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Les, the pills are impossible to get, but you can get all the Iodine you want into you by using water purification tablets or drops, available at most camping supply places.
I’ve been thinking about a rad-meter for my BOB (which is ALSO shelter-In equipment, just drag it into the room you are to seal off).
March 16th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Three pairs of underwear, 2 pairs of swimming trunks, 1 ticket to Tahiti
March 16th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
A GOOD bag that’s intended to let you live in a random spot in the woods is indeed a fantasy. A GOOD bag that is designed to get you to a preplanned retreat, either by vehicle or foot, on the other hand, is a pretty damned smart thing to do. (Presumably, if it will get you out on foot, it will also let you live more comfortably in a Red Cross Shelter for a few days or weeks.)
March 16th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Electronic and/or paper copies of critical legal documents. So far I’ve got family IDs, birth cert, marriage cert., life ins, vehicle reg. etc. all scanned as PNG and saved on a USB drive. Weighs less than an ounce, but can prove who am I, and that previously owned a home where there now lies a giant crater from where an alien space craft crashed.
Obviously I have basic first aid and the typical gear.
March 16th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
You forgot critical illegal documents too..
March 16th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Not exactly BOB-related, but since I work on the 12th floor of a building around one mile from the water in San Diego, I’m thinking a parachute and a flotation device at my desk might be in order.
March 17th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Monte, You might be better off with a respirator, a car window breaker, 150′ of climbing rope, some carbiners and a harness.
March 20th, 2011 at 12:24 am
http://www.survivalblog.com