Posted on 07/17/2007 7:18:00 PM PDT by blam
Sydney residents 'must carry survival bags'
By Mark Chipperfield in Sydney
Last Updated: 2:12am BST 18/07/2007
The easy-going residents of Australia's biggest city are being urged to carry personal "survival bags" to help them cope with a future terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, says citizens should pack a "Go Bag" containing such essentials as toilet paper, running shoes, spare keys, a torch, disposable gloves, adhesive tape, a transistor radio and sun cream before they leave home each day.
Miss Moore, who has yet to pack her own Go Bag, says it is her duty to warn Sydney's four million residents of the potential dangers that await them.
"Living through the hailstorm [in 1999], I realized how unprepared we were for a catastrophe of that sort," she said.
The city council is distributing 200,000 booklets advising Sydneysiders on how to cope with a terrorist attack, earthquake, flood or other natural disaster. The booklet suggests that people find an "emergency buddy", develop a personal emergency plan and create a contact number on their mobile phones in case they are injured and unable to talk to rescuers.
A council website suggests that in the event of a bombing, earthquake or flood residents should carry their cats in "a cotton pillow case".
The public education campaign, which has been co-funded by the Australian government, has been greeted with skepticism by most Sydneysiders - even from the deputy mayor Chris Harris. "It's purely sensationalist," he said.
"Where are we supposed to go with our Go Bags? With our current public transport system, the roads would be clogged within minutes."
Sydney has already been warned to be on high alert when world leaders arrive in September to attend the 2007 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. The latest announcement has only heightened the sense of fear surrounding that event.
I just bought a Jack Bauer bag and plan to carry my own aircraft carrier...just in case.
Now that sounds like a good party....
I see the guide is available in pdf form at
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/getreadysydney/pocketguide/default.asp
After reading some of these lists,you might as well stay home and put a 50 cal. on the roof. Sand bags of course.
About 15 years ago when I was building my retirement home, I was pointing out to my brother (a building contractor himself) all the security concious features I was building into the house...he said, "I can mount some 20 cal retractable guns on the roof without too much trouble." LOL.
I want a Jack Bauer bag, sure... but what I really want is a goodie drawer in my rig like they've got in the back of them CTU SUVs.
Your list just said “Man” all over it.
OK. That is what I am. last time I peeked.
I was hoping my kit said “Survivor” all over it.
Being a woman does not mean one has to cclose one’s eyes and hope; not having prepared.
No think you. I already voted.
No thank you. I already voted.
My dad used to love that show, until he made a plane out of bamboo shoots or something.
I have a Camelbak ST5 on back order.
Not too big and in has a 100 oz water bladder built in along with a decent size carry section without having to hump a footlocker.
Runs roughly $180 or so.
I see so many packs around but the Camelbak and the Maxpedtion Fatboys or Jumbos are the mose practical and low profile for carrying around.
Check out Camelbak,com for a bunch of good stuff. (warning they ARE pricey)
I’d like to see them get my cat into a pillow case. My money would be on my cat and I am not normally a betting woman.
Wowee!! Ok, so all I carry is backroads maps to get me to MT. My friends laugh at me for that!
For later reading...
I’m prepared in a female way.
We live where it’s HIGHLY unlikely that we’ll have to move, way out in the country in a small town.
I am somewhat domestic and do my own sewing, gardening, and canning. We have sources for popular produce, like apples, corn, and other staples, that I can put up.
I do have emergency kinds of supplies, also, but would have to pull them together to get out, but at least if we can stay put, we’re in no danger of starving or freezing.
I need to maintain a stance that will allow me to keep viable for a week to two weeks, until what is called control can be achieved by the local authorities, who are as competent as any political subdivision anywhere. THAT is the scary part. I prefer NOT to depend on them for my immediate survival. The last thing I want is the wordy but incompetent Geraldo, in all of his splendor and Delicate Crybaby Shepard Smith blubbering about how the poor folks cannot get water, snacks or their dry cleaning. Or worse some big boobed blonde with nothing between the headsets making comments and pronouncing things incorrectly.
The worst we are likely to get weather wise is snow or an ice storm, so that’s not an issue.
We are now a safe distance from the nuke plant with hills between it and us, additionally.
There’s nothing besides the nuke plant for terrorists to go after, so unless a terrorist would have to hit us by accident, so we’re OK that way, too.
I can certainly see your concern. I’ve watched the hurricane debacles on the news and just shake my head in disbelief. Poor people can’t get *FREE* bottled water as they are sitting in line at a gas station with their SUV running and the air conditioning on. Whatever happened to being prepared? What idiots, all. (Not you obviously)
Wonder where the headline came from. The word “must” doesn’t appear anywhere in the actual story.
The pillowcase has yet to be invented that could hold the Ferocious Feline Bebop Trio.
Let alone Bacon and Hap’s SEVEN cats.
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