Do you have a go bag?
Where do you keep it?
What is inside of it?
Yeah…I gotta finish mine and keep it topped off. Mine would be for floods / tornadoes / possibly wildfires. Mostly contains the basics / similar stuff as I’d take backpacking. Just have to allocate space for dog food/treats, collapsible bowls, etc cause I would have to care for them.
Items of note:
- Rechargeable flashlight
- 20,000 mAh power bank
- 20W foldable solar panel (clips onto the outside of my pack)
- 3x Mini Meshtastic nodes
- Old cell phone (no cell service, but has offline maps + Meshtastic app + long battery life)
- 2x FRS walkie-talkies
Figure could hand out a couple of the Meshtastic nodes if infra is down in order to keep in touch. Trying to figure out a way to add the Meshtastic board inside the case of my FRS walkie-talkies to save space, but haven’t gotten around to that yet.
I’ve recently been made aware of the urgent need for a gobag in my life. The earthquakes in the news could happen near me
I was thinking a light weight bag by the front door
- very light weight sandals
- electrolytes
- change of clothes
- expandable water bottle
- cash
- copy of emergency contacts
- copy of passport
- face masks
- water life straw or purification tablets
- small emergency ration like pemmican
- extra USB cables
- hand crank USB charger?
This has to be light weight im afraid I’ll add so much it would slow me down if I have to climb down my building in an emergency
Where you live in the world decides a lot.
Add a bigger fixed blade knife. Good for defence, scare people away, splitting wood,
Para cord. Rope is useful Radio- hand crank Solar power source
My major use case is earthquake/flood have to abandon my primary residence situations, I live in a very hot and tropical environment, water is everywhere just not clean.
Those are great additions
- Para cord
- Radio (maybe baofang?)
- Crank/Solar Power generator with USB
- Fixed blade knife
- multi-tool
Ideas I got from https://youtu.be/VM_12ZMAtW0
- Compass
- Headlamp
- Alcohol pens
- Duct Tape folded into square
- Local area map
- gloves
- grayl water filter (looks bulky)
- condor prime 21 back (i think maybe a water proof backpack might be better for a gobag)
If you live in the tropics consider a large military type poncho and a small hammock. Sleeping on the ground invites bugs.
Maybe small stone light like the ones runners wear for road safety.
