What's in your bug out bag/emergency gear?

[Dead Man]

"preparing" is an incredibly broad thing.

Check out the gun forums and see how those guys are "prepping" - WWIII post apocalyptic/post-government type ····.

More power to 'em, but I don't see that kind of failure happening. And if it does, why the hell would I even want to survive?

[Louis]

Originally Posted by The B

More power to 'em, but I don't see that kind of failure happening. And if it does, why the hell would I even want to survive?

Many humans will want to push on, even through the worst circumstances you can imagine. All the documentation I've seen on WW2 concentration / work / death camps bears this out.

My choice for a good book on that particularly horrible part of history is this:

http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Me.../dp/080701429X

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by RFC

Currency will be worthless during the Zombie Apocalypse.

Glad somebody said it.

But since the Y2K thing(remember that?), bottled water, space heaters, candles, batteries, canned food, ammunition. No way to really prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse, it'll be really big.

[velomonkey]

Originally Posted by GScot

Sort of serious answer bottled water for a few days, batteries and lights, box of camping stuff. For food just extra supply of bars and single serving snacks like nuts or trail mix. Not set up for end of the world, just a few days without utilities.

This. Corner of my garage has a bunch of 5 gallon water jugs, a few cases of water and then plastic boxes with our camping supplies. Wiring our heavy up so we could power it with the generator - we were living like kings when the hurricane took power out for 2 days.

[eippo1]

Perhaps this too

[AngryScientist]

on a serious note, one thing i need to undertake is a conversion of my small generator to natural gas. the last big storm where power was out for multiple days, the lines at gas stations were scary long as people waited with little jugs to fill up for their generators. that was a problem.

i have a separate nat gas feed for my BBQ grill that would be easy to re-purpose for emergency generator use. during a power outage, i would only really need to keep power to my refrigerator to keep food and milk from spoiling and run a few house lights and maybe the laptops to watch movies.