Tag I'm it! The Survival Meme
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neadods, the tacky but timely meme:
You're home. The roads are clear and the public transport is running, when the order comes: "You have 4 hours to get out of town."
How do you get out?
Where do you go?
Do you take anyone with you?
What do you take? (put an asterix on the stuff that you'd still take if you only had 30 minutes)
If your house is gone, would you come back to the area?
1. How do you get out? Load up the car and hit the road, jack.
2. Depends on where the storm is coming in from. If Boston was going to be safe, I'd head for family up there. If not, I'd go as far inland as was recommended, and then drive an hour further.
3. If my folks couldn't get mass transit out of the city, I'd take them (otherwise, they'd get out faster using the train or the infamous Chinatown Bus). I'd then see if anyone on my quick-dial needed a shotgun seat out of town.
4.
* the felines
* all cash and credit cards and cash-transferrables
* my financial records (aka 'the fireproof safe-file')
* my passport
* my mobile phone
* my travel kit, which tends to be ready-packed anyway
* as much of the medicine cabinet as I could sweep into a grocery bag
* my jewelery
* my PDA
* my old teddy bears (we all need teddy bears in times of stress, and mine are articularly velveteen)
* the laptop and backup files/cords/battery
* bottled water
any fresh fruit or otherwise portable and ready-to-eat foods as I had on-hand
as many pairs of jeans, shirts and underwear as I could cram into a suitcase
my case of negatives (easier to make new photos than try to sort what needs to be saved)
the photos by the side of my bed (those, I need with me)
my daggers and sword, JiC things get really bad.
pillows and blankets
extra soap
rolls of toilet paper
my fetish collection
notebooks and pens
candles and lighters
Most of this stuff amusingly enough, is already set up in such a way that I could make a clean sweep to load the car. And yes, I was both a girl scout and a tent-style camper as a kid why do you ask?
5. Eventually, maybe. But not definitely. I can live/make a living anywhere.
Not going to tag anyone, but I do think this is something we should all put our thoughts in order on before it's needed, so hey give it a shot. Ad I'll add a rider to the original -- get your answers down within fifteen minutes of reading this. No thinking -- do it! The clock will be ticking.
neadods, the tacky but timely meme:You're home. The roads are clear and the public transport is running, when the order comes: "You have 4 hours to get out of town."
How do you get out?
Where do you go?
Do you take anyone with you?
What do you take? (put an asterix on the stuff that you'd still take if you only had 30 minutes)
If your house is gone, would you come back to the area?
1. How do you get out? Load up the car and hit the road, jack.
2. Depends on where the storm is coming in from. If Boston was going to be safe, I'd head for family up there. If not, I'd go as far inland as was recommended, and then drive an hour further.
3. If my folks couldn't get mass transit out of the city, I'd take them (otherwise, they'd get out faster using the train or the infamous Chinatown Bus). I'd then see if anyone on my quick-dial needed a shotgun seat out of town.
4.
* the felines
* all cash and credit cards and cash-transferrables
* my financial records (aka 'the fireproof safe-file')
* my passport
* my mobile phone
* my travel kit, which tends to be ready-packed anyway
* as much of the medicine cabinet as I could sweep into a grocery bag
* my jewelery
* my PDA
* my old teddy bears (we all need teddy bears in times of stress, and mine are articularly velveteen)
* the laptop and backup files/cords/battery
* bottled water
any fresh fruit or otherwise portable and ready-to-eat foods as I had on-hand
as many pairs of jeans, shirts and underwear as I could cram into a suitcase
my case of negatives (easier to make new photos than try to sort what needs to be saved)
the photos by the side of my bed (those, I need with me)
my daggers and sword, JiC things get really bad.
pillows and blankets
extra soap
rolls of toilet paper
my fetish collection
notebooks and pens
candles and lighters
Most of this stuff amusingly enough, is already set up in such a way that I could make a clean sweep to load the car. And yes, I was both a girl scout and a tent-style camper as a kid why do you ask?
5. Eventually, maybe. But not definitely. I can live/make a living anywhere.
Not going to tag anyone, but I do think this is something we should all put our thoughts in order on before it's needed, so hey give it a shot. Ad I'll add a rider to the original -- get your answers down within fifteen minutes of reading this. No thinking -- do it! The clock will be ticking.
