Emergency Kit: Do You Have One?
In light of the whole James Kim tragedy, I thought I’d check the emergency kit I keep in my car.
I have the following in my car for emergency purposes:
-Water Purification Tablets
-Silver Thermal Reflective Blanket
-Swiss Armk Knife with Fork and Spoon
-Pack of (Antiseptic) Alcohol and Iodine Wipes
-Sharper Image ToolLogic (Has a blade and a can/bottle opener in a credit card-sized form)
-3 12-inch Velcro Straps
-Various sized Adhesive Bandages
-Emergency Whistle (Maybe the most important thing here)
-Emergency Food Rations
-9 Four ounce emergency water packets
-2 One-Quart Plastic Zip-Top Bags
-AM/FM Radio with four AA Batteries
-2 Spare AA Batteries
-1 CYALUME 12-Hour Lightstick
-1 Mini MagLight with 2 AA Batteries
-1 Carabiner 150-pound load bearing
-1 Digital Watch
-1 Plastic Poncho
-1 Pair Spare Eyeglasses in Hard Case
-1 Fannypack-style pouch for holding the above
-1 Fleece BlanketTOTAL WEIGHT OF ABOVE: 7.5 lbs
I also need some items for my kit, including replacing the emergency food and water as they’ve recently expired:
-Waterproof Matches and/or Lighter
-Emergency Strobe Light
-Needle/Thread
-Collapsible Canteen
-Pre-Mixed Kool-Aid Packets (Quick supply of energy from the sugar and covers the taste of the Water Purification Tablets)
-Flint and Steel
So, what’s in your emergency kit? Do you even have one? If not, why not?
You are a wise man Ted. I need to prepare an emergancy kit for our vehicles. Thanks for the list–it will help greatly.
We don’t keep one in the car at all times but if we are going to travel somewhere, we would take one. I don’t think we would need one on a daily basis. I do carry a small first aid kit in the car at all times along with a roadside kit.
Good looking out on the road. Here is something that recently found while looking for emergency radios (no batts req’d).
http://www.safetycross.com/6n1?gclid=CNLo__ahkokCFShCYwod_FGhAw