Don't leave home without it....and tuck a roll of TP inside.
I've carried this setup in both cars for 20 years, ever since the Northridge earthquake turned my normal one hour commute to as much as six...
Posted on 02/10/2014 12:30:55 PM PST by Kartographer
My sister was terrible with credit cards...so didn’t have any. Once she broke down on a trip and called her hubby to come so he could pay for her repairs. Her hubby told her in the visor behind the makeup mirror in her car she would find a credit card... Smart man that he is he hid a credit card so if she really had an emergency he would not have to make the drive to rescue her just because she didn’t have plastic.
Had my go bag with everything I needed in my F250 (including a new Katdyn water filter I had less than 2 weeks) when it was stolen in Nov. I don’t have to worry too much about snow/ice but still like to be prepared in case of an on road emergency. Now it’s back to piecing everything together again. Luckily no firearms in the bag just a box of ammo but I did lose the mil-spec lensatic compass I’d had since the Army.
TIRE CHAINS!
In the interest of fairness, so would she...
Leave extra coats in the car at all times and you won’t have to argue and gets eye rolls from them.
Don't leave home without it....and tuck a roll of TP inside.
I've carried this setup in both cars for 20 years, ever since the Northridge earthquake turned my normal one hour commute to as much as six...
That doesn't fly here in the desert...a couple of years ago, wifey bought a large back of goo-goo cluster chocolate turtles - and by the time she got home from the market it'd morphed into ONE very big tortoise.
Recycle the kids’ old school backpacks to hold the car emergency kit. It’s easier to carry when you have to bail, keeps things together and doesn’t take up much space.
that “I don’t need to prepare” mindset is largely responsible for the mess in the ATL two weeks ago. People have become too dependent on the guvment telling what to do and when to do it.
Wow! Just how big is your car?
LOLOL, works in Wisconsin.
Actually, the govt. publishes avery good emergency list for a grab it bag. At least they used to. FEMA put it out after 9/11.
It’s called a Richard Petty road tube when deployed in a motor vehicle.
You sound like a dude I read about in the First Book.
His name was Noah.
Slim Pickens...is that you? LOL
(Same one who keeps throwing out my preps if I don't hide them well enough.)
“But who would have thought there were so many simple minded on FR?”
To top it off, they usually say “we” want them to die so we can laugh at them for not being prepared. We hear that over and over and over. They could just not read the thread if they aren’t interested, but they love to cast us as the villain for hoarding all the food they could have in an emergency. There is food everywhere right now they could store, but they don’t want that - they want to wait until food is scarce, then blame us for having food and not giving it to them.
Each one of them is an individual to make his/her own choices and so am I, so leave me alone just like I leave them alone.
The backpack in the trunk of my car has everything I need to keep me alive for more than three days. I forget it’s there, BUT IT IS.
Does that have Positraction? Hard to tell from the picture.
It all fits into a small duffel bag I got on clearance at Target. Not as big as one would imagine.
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