If you can’t find a SAFE PLACE right away you sure can get yourself and each family member a BUG-OUT BACKPACK like this one or a SLACKPACK for the younger members. In fact, a 10 year old could carry his or her SLACKPACK.
This is mine and the backpack is made totally in the USA by my friends at Battle Lake Outdoors. Yes, it is over $200 but when you have an emergency and need to carry your backpack you don’t want a cheaply made Chinese one, where the straps might rip away! This one can easily carry 75 pounds! Even their slackpack can carry easily 15 pounds!
I keep the slackpack by my bedside as it has everything I need except the sleeping bag and hammock. I know several several ways to make temporary shelter.
There is enough freeze dried food and water packages to last me probably a week.
Several have asked me to identify the items in my backpack. First on the extreme left is my fabulous Lawson Hammock which has been voted the #1 hammock for use on the Appalachian Trail. It can also double as a one person on the ground tent. The white box to the right are the TREE HUGGERS that come with it to protect the trees you attach the hammock to. My friend Wes thinks of everything!
Below the hammock is the water purification system from Sawyer that cleans over 100 GALLONS with 99% purification! They also have the YELLOW Sting and Bite kit you see on the extreme right.
The big blue plastic package are my change of clothes. Always have these available. By the way my Battle Lake Outdoors backpack has a cool area that allows for the drying of clothes!
You can see the SILVER packages of freeze dried food and clean water.
The knife you see was given to me by my father when I was a teenager and is the real British Commando knife of Sheffield steel.