Your emergency kit

What do I have in my family emergency kit:

It pays to watch a variety of videos on prepping in terms of the emergency kit I watched more than one YouTube video on bug out bags or grab n go bags that is your emergency kit put in a duffel bags back packs I had my hiking backpack as a bug out bag at one stage they're basically any bag you can pick up easily with your emergency items and run /leave the house for evacuation. You'll learn different tips from one prepping YouTube video to another so don't just watch one prepping video and think you're sorted. One of the bug out bag videos suggested a white bag so it's easily visible to grab and run if it's dark or power outage.

My Emergency kit plus bug out bag contains.

Communication

very important to get Two way radios because you won't be able to use telephones, cellphones as cell towers will be not working. It's great for communication between family and warning others of approaching natural disasters ie you could warn someone of a tsunami in the distance or even to your home in a 2 storey house if the stair case had collapsed you may be able to communicate with them. They're really useful and peace of mind.


CB radios a set
That's two way radios that don't need a license mine is only 4km range

First Aid kit

Fire making
altho we don't need it know because we have a car power inverter
Magnifying glass

BBQ lighters the long kind

USB lighters they are to be charged as they are a USB but you also slide it down and it heats up you can use these to light candles I think paper too

Standard lighters

Making fire
Fire starters
Soapy steel pads

Fire starters that work even in the rain cotton balls doused in petroleum jelly

Power inverter
Small one one large voltage one
you can google this it's basically an alternative power source for your home connected to your car battery or small power inverters that run through the cigarette lighter in your vehicle for smaller devices such as laptops

I also have a solar car battery charger I need to get a better one they are needed with your car battery power inverter so you don't drain your battery, ruin it

Water purification tablets
For water you have stored

Lighting
Dynamo torch a torch that doesn't need batteries it winds up and produces torch light

Spotlight
Led torches with large area for the beam of light

You can also get solar powered torches and solar radios those are - Very important for updates from your government local region and news of martial law

Laminated local emergency radio station frequencies
Portable hand held radios
More than one smartphone that has radio plus a small torch light app that works offline

Recipes for damper it's like bread

A mini oven plus grill to use with power inverter

Tooth brushes shaving cream shampoo conditioner toilet paper large buckets plus large disposable bags x 80 for toilet other toiletries and personal hygiene

Antibacterial soap more than 1 very important soap that doesn't need water or rinsing, it dries

A Few Games toys for my nephew


Cleaning products dishwasher liquid large bag of laundry powder portable washing machine

Tent

FOOD
water
Maps

Life straw highly important

Papper pencils vivid marker pen

First aid manual

Laminated instruction for tsunami and earthquake

Important details
Ie drivers license number tax number family's cell nunbers

Poncho rain jackets

Wet wipes disposable tissues to keep yourself and others clean in a pinch

Fluorescent vests for visibility for rescue

And my led torch has a flickering mode that could be used for attention

Laser pointers are good too

Extra medication

Goodbook said:

what do you have in it?

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This is my bug out bag weighing in at 76 lbs. Remember I am 6' 6" and 297lbs and I have no prob jogging with this bag some 30 miles 16 hrs a day. (when properly fed, and rested) also I am providing for my family not just myself. I have went purposely stressed only eating one MRE a day for 30 days and 4 hours sleep a night, and I made 12 to 17 miles a day after the first 12 days. I lost 26 lbs. Yes... I plan this stuff and train for it.

4 days clothes, I have toiletries, feminine products, (maxi pads are awesome wound dressing)no rinse soap, no rinse shampoo/conditioner, hand cleaner, tooth brushes, tooth paste, waterless washing clothes, 50 (25 pair) nitrile examination gloves, emergency trauma field kit, medical fluoride scissors, liquid bandage spray, off, 20 cc 10 pc syringe, 2x250ml bottles of sterile water for irrigation, 5 3M biological paper surgical respirators, 50 4x4 gauze sponges, 100 butterfly closure strips, field suture kit, wound closure adhesive, blood clotting solution powder, 6 kerlix type gauze rolls 4" X 4 yrds, 6 battle dressing first aid compression bandages 3x2" 3x6", 24 self adherent cohesive bandages 3"x5", combat application tourniquet, 2 hurt free first aid antiseptics, 99% isopropyl alcohol, insect bite stick, 200 sterile alcohol wipes, hydrogen peroxide, 20 first aid iodine infection control wipes, 50 iodine swab sticks, neosporin, hydrocortisone anti itch cream, Ibuprofen, aleve (naproxen), tweezers, medicated lip balm, 250 pc asst baind aids, bull frog sunblock, water purification tablets, 48 pepto bismol tablets, 400 diphenhydramine antihistamine tablets, cough drops, potassium iodine tablets, Scott safety av-3000 full face respirator, 3 NS activgard disposable coveralls, 4 CB filter cartridges, water straw, 1 ltr canteen, wire saw, steel wool, 9v batt, waterproof windproof matches, sharpening block, K-bar, 10 day MRE, 4 sterno cans, fire starter, tinder, fishing line and hook, full coverage rain suit, 1 man temp tent and stakes, 100' para cord, LED flash light, 1 pk 8 AA batts, 4 glow sticks, 2 burner stove, 3lbs LPG cartridge, bedding (incld sleep bag & ground cover) attached to back of bag, 74lbs compound bow, 12 arrows, 16 tips and 9 fletching sets, mirror, compass, whistle, carton of smokes, flare gun 2 shots, 10 lbs dog food ( I own 3 dogs and they're family + 2 of them hunt and find food on a regular basis), game field dressing kit, gut blade/skin knife, and last but not least a antibiotic 'z pac' kit.

Goodbook said:

Those lifestraws look a bit dubious, do they really work? It looks like the little girl is drinking urine?!

Which you can do in an emergency I heard, if you run out of everything. I cant imagine it tastes any good.

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I have a big berkey that I used to drink out of a drainage retention ditch and it was pure, wonderful tasting water.

I have only used it to survive in 3 dire weather related emergencies, in the 16 years I have prepped. But I use my prep gear every summer as the thunderstorms start rolling in. I lose power at least 2 or 3 times a year for a couple hours. I live way out in the country, and lots of trees around. I've used it job sites for first aid (I keep my bag in the truck), and every 6 months I live in my tent to sell fireworks. So I literally live off my gear for about a month every New Years and 4th of July. I sell flowers on the road side also for easter and mother's day, and the gear comes in handy then also.

Here is what the CDC recommends for everyone to have in an emergency kit:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/preparedness/kit/disasters/

I'm a Nzer too I've lived in Christchurch during the quakes plus Auckland were back in Aucks but it's a good idea for anyone to have a kit including Auckland remember those tornadoes on the north shore that was a surprise so it shows be prepared. When the first EQ struck in Christchurch in 2010 at 4am it was not only a surprise at firsthand experience of an Earthquake but the aftermath we were all unprepared for. So be ready.

Fireinfolding said:

I do have a hard time believing police are afraid of a violent man, they arrest those sorts all the time.

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There is "reckless violent" police are prone to handle professionally, with professionally encouraged techniques & there is a "whole different level" which is trained in the counter moves to police techniques and if you come at them as you are trained to. . . they will put you in the dirt, rape and kill you or whatever they want because for every move there is a counter-move and folks trained in the counter moves. . . are just stupid not to be treated lightly or like anyone else. You fear them (from a LEO perspective) because {oftentimes} huge amounts of their time and training have gone into "not being captured" or "disrupting the enemy from an inferior strategic position" . . we call it asymmetrical warfare these days. . . there are classes, clinics, and . . a big chunk of modern soldier school devoted to exactly, exactly. . . . the skills that would make Joe Cop smart to be "afraid" of old man (done war, been trained, has experience, etc)

In my "Get Home" bag (LL Bean standard backpack) in the car I have:

Broken in hiking boots, two pairs of socks
Light water proof jacket and hood
Light packable down jacket and hood
Gloves for warmth and pair of goat skin
Lightweight nylon pants with lots of pockets
Leatherman tool
Kbar (Dad's old Marine knife)
Box of 9mm
Sunscreen
Two bandanas
First Aid Kit including Quick Clot
Small Bible
Compass with mirror and foldable map
Life straw and collapsable bowl
Two liters of water
Four MRE's
Protein bar
10 oz down sleeping bag and mylar tent
Crank radio
Wire saw
Foldable solar panel and plugs for phone
Two methods of starting fire and starter material
Nesting camp pot and stove with fuel
Silver dollars

Edit to add: Streamlight flashlight is also in my bag

Goodbook said:

... there hasn't been any warning of any natural disasters that need to prepare for.

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Disasters rarely send advance warning.

I've worked professionally in the area of disaster preparedness for nearly two decades. I've never seen a natural disaster that didn't take people by surprise - at least to some extent. Good grief, the residents of New Orleans built their city below sea level, didn't properly maintain the levees and were still surprised when hurricane Katrina flooded the city.

We have what I would call 72 Hour bags for each member of our household and what I would call Get Home Bags in each vehicle. Each vehicle also has a First Aid/Trauma kit (I was in a medical unit in the Army) and, of course, we have First Aid/Trauma supplies in the house.