My backpack:
The major contents of my backpack:
The great Northeast power failure of 2004, and Katrina, showed me that some problems are too big for even the federal government to comprehend, much less fix. Also, the official policy of "three days of food and water until we send the National Guard to relocate you" is nonsense.
My backpack gives me the ability to outrange and outshoot by 250 yards some gangbangers with AK47s. That means I get to keep my bailout bag, and its contents.
This is an end-of-the-world setup, but the last few years showed me that this is not inconceivable. If and when the dice come up snake-eyes, I'll have these simple items, found around any household, to help out, and keep me from being an added drain on a system that will be overburdened already from people who didn't make even the simplest preparations.