Get Home Bag!!

[ChunkyMonkey]

Remember when Part of Paris was closed down... After a soccer championship celebration turned into a riot. Many folks were stuck away from home for overnight. It reminds me of 1998 Broncos riot here in Denver. While many of you have posted bug out bag, I personally more interested in get home bag. I have one in each vehicle and a mini bag in the office.




So post up your get home bag here!!

[gnihcraes]

I have my work BOB with me everyday. A little water, a little food, most everything my other BOB's have. water treatment, two coats, fire starting materials. Goes with me to work and comes home with me. My Travel BOB.

[Irving]

I have the BOB in the trunk, which is basically just a ready to go camping bag. I bring a smaller bag into work with me every day that just has stuff I'd use if I needed to stay the night some where, deodorant, razor, toothbrush, phone charger, check book, HSA card, bandana, knife, contact stuff and glasses, floss, chap stick, flash light, Emergency, and bandaids. I get made fun of for it about as often as I am asked for something out of it.

[Gunyaga]

Absolutely
I was talking with FIL last night over a beer about what constitutes "preparedness," and it got me to thinking about the old cold war and even pre to that disaster preparedness scenarios that the governments (local etc.) had in place. Not just the hear the siren and go to your basement or local bomb shelter, but information about places for law abiding to meet up after the fact as well. What the hell ever happened to any of this?
I think there is a good bit of common ground amongst many of the "experienced advisors," who have served in one form or another in an area where there is either constant unrest or a SHTF scenario concerning the grouping of folks into helpless or the victim class, the lawless (looting, raping, pillaging etc.) and the potentially successful who band together to offer a collective value proposition measured with potential show of force to re-establish some sort of law or at least co-existence minimums.

That said, once again, what happened to community level drives to be prepared to assemble at a location? Sure, like with every SHTF scenario and decision there are logisitical security concerns for doing this, but take the EMP/Compton effect scenario and we suddenly find ourselves void of our usual methods for communication, a community level plan in place for a minimum of assembly seems like a damn stupid thing to have not maintained, or is it just me?

[TheGrey]

Absolutely
I was talking with FIL last night over a beer about what constitutes "preparedness," and it got me to thinking about the old cold war and even pre to that disaster preparedness scenarios that the governments (local etc.) had in place. Not just the hear the siren and go to your basement or local bomb shelter, but information about places for law abiding to meet up after the fact as well. What the hell ever happened to any of this?
I think there is a good bit of common ground amongst many of the "experienced advisors," who have served in one form or another in an area where there is either constant unrest or a SHTF scenario concerning the grouping of folks into helpless or the victim class, the lawless (looting, raping, pillaging etc.) and the potentially successful who band together to offer a collective value proposition measured with potential show of force to re-establish some sort of law or at least co-existence minimums.

That said, once again, what happened to community level drives to be prepared to assemble at a location? Sure, like with every SHTF scenario and decision there are logisitical security concerns for doing this, but take the EMP/Compton effect scenario and we suddenly find ourselves void of our usual methods for communication, a community level plan in place for a minimum of assembly seems like a damn stupid thing to have not maintained, or is it just me?

Hi!
No, it's not just you. There's an odd dichotomy that I've been seeing- the perecption of the world to be getting much smaller with the advent of everything online; online communities seem to be replacing the community right outside of our doors. The real world doesn't seem to be 'reality' with a lot of our communities. That's what it seems to me, anyhow.

[blacklabel]

I have the BOB in the trunk, which is basically just a ready to go camping bag. I bring a smaller bag into work with me every day that just has stuff I'd use if I needed to stay the night some where, deodorant, razor, toothbrush, phone charger, check book, HSA card, bandana, knife, contact stuff and glasses, floss, chap stick, flash light, Emergency, and bandaids. I get made fun of for it about as often as I am asked for something out of it.

I've got a Maxpedition Sitka that I keep some basic hand tools in, small toiletries, first aid kit, phone chargers, etc. that I take everywhere. The girls in the office are jealous of the organization it has.

[StagLefty]

I carry what most do here in a 511 Rush12 pack. I like this one because it has a hydration pouch.

[Limited GM]

My wife refers to mine as a "Dexter kit".

[Irving]

People already have said things to me like, "You're a survivalist right?" It irritates me because I don't portray that at ALL, and the person I am in person, is close to the person I am in the most off topic of threads on here. No politics, no guns, etc. It sure as heck ain't because of that tiny bag I carry around either. Bag is one of these:

[ChunkyMonkey]

People already have said things to me like, "You're a survivalist right?" It irritates me because I don't portray that at ALL, and the person I am in person, is close to the person I am in the most off topic of threads on here. No politics, no guns, etc. It sure as heck ain't because of that tiny bag I carry around either. Bag is one of these:

No you are not.. In person, you are ...