Back from a 3-day road trip/gear test. Gear was good. Procedure was a bit flawed. I took 3 times as long to load and secure the gear (and there was not that much of it) as I had planned. Something to think about.
Keep up the good work here folks. We need all the information we can get, the state run media sure won't tell us anything relevant.
Stay Safe folks.
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I've read lots of suggestions online, that besides the 72-hour bug out bags (OR "bobs") that should be right by the door, that it is wise, PARTICULARLY DURING WINTER MONTHS, to have all the emergency survival gear ALREADY packed -- into a heavy duty rubbermaid-type container which is then placed in the garage.
You can even hide it away in the garage rafters -- NOT food stuffs, of course, but the GEAR.
This way it is all in ONE spot, immediately accessible to place in the trunk of your car, or the back of a pick up.
If all the tents, blankets, sleeping bags, camp lanterns, misc.tools, etc. are ALL OF THEM, cleaned in August and then carefully packed into one large container -- then you will NEVER be running all over the house trying to gather survival gear, when you really should already be several miles out of town, on the road to safety.
Some people have multiple spots where they store identical containers of survival gear, just in case any of the locations are impossible to get do.
This means carefully finding duplicate items at prices you can afford.
All the gear in the world is ultimately useless if you can't just GRAB the EMERGENCY SURVIVAL GEAR all at once, and just toss the ONE container into a vehicle.
Snips: Senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would bring foreign military contractors under the jurisdiction of American laws following an appeal from the parents of a soldier allegedly killed by a contractor in Iraq.
The subcommittee also released a report showing that federal agencies rarely dismiss abusive contractors. The investigation revealed that over the last five years, the Defense Department Office of Inspector General reported 2,700 convictions, but the Defense Department only debarred 708 contractors.
The Department of Homeland Security did not debar any contractors in 2006, despite widespread reports of waste, fraud and abuse following Hurricane Katrina.
PASS ID just REAL ID pig in lipstick
Not only is REAL ID not dead yet, but Congress seems to have birthed a bigger, uglier brother named PASS ID, which is waiting in the wings for the right time to be sprung on a largely unsuspecting populace.
Accused terrorist's rights not violated by military counsel's removal, judge finds
Snips: A man accused of conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 will not be allowed to keep the military lawyers assigned to him when he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled Wednesday that the rights of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani were not violated by the decision of the Secretary of Defense to reassign the two lawyers designated to represent him when he was preparing for trial before a military commission.
The U.S. Supreme Court, he said, has stated that the "right to counsel of choice does not extend to defendants who require counsel to be appointed for them," United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 548 U.S. 140 (2006), and "those who do not have the means to hire their own lawyers have no cognizable complaint so long as they are adequately represented by attorneys appointed by the courts," Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered v. United States, 491 U.S. 617 (1989).