This is my sentiment exactly but I think by calling the kits "go bags" it gives the impression that it would be something you would grab as you were out the door, i.e. in an evacuation after a terrorist attack.
Like I said, hurricane's are one thing, terrorism entirely different.
My husband works for local government and would have to be in a different location froms us on the Emergency Management Team, but I've always told him, even if they tell us to evacuate, you'll find us right here at home because there's no way I'm getting on the roads in an emergency situation.
I've adopted that phrase from the book of Esther, "If I perish, I perish." I'll prepare for what I can prepare for, but I won't follow some hairbrained scheme or evacuation plan that has never been tested.
I absolutely agree.
During hurricane Floyd, a "mandatory evacuation" was imposed on south Georgia.
Over a million people were stuck on the roads. in cars, with nowhere to go.
We stayed in our old Victorian rambler which has survived hurricanes since 1883- for a number of reasons-- not the least of which was that designated shelters would not take us and our animals in.
We did just fine, and it sure was peaceful with most of the city gone.
By contrast, well-meaning neighbors evacuated my eighty-year-old Mom, and she spent 2 miserable days driving aimlessly around rural Georgia, or stuck in endless traffic jams-- they could not find one place to stay.