Geez, jake, I never heard that!! I better get my sorry butt over to the SaveOn foods and buy up some flour sugar and rice, canola oil, and a buncha canned goods! Thanks bud! Courtney Nanaimo, BC (smack in the middle of V.I.!!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake de Villiers" <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:17 PM Subject: Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag
> Interesting that you ask this today. > > The morning radio said that there has been increased seismic activity > along > the fault line under Vancouver Island in the last 48 hours and that we > might > be in for an "Event" in the next two weeks. > > No fun at all. > > Jake > > On 2/2/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote: >> >> If you had to, could you be gone in 30 minutes and self sufficent for >> several days? What would you take, knowing that perhaps when you >> returned, >> nothing would remain. The Vanagon is a capable emergency shelter if >> outfitted properly. What would you put in that git-box? What kind of >> box >> would it be? The folks in Florida had a middle of the night visitor that >> flattened their lives, their fortunes but not their honor. What's in >> your >> bug-out bag? Cell phone and Visa card? Full-on-conditions >> urban/ex-urban >> survival stuff? Batteries for the x-box or MRE's? Canned tuna or >> doritos. >> Sorels or sandals? >> >> Long ago, my friend Bill skied a last run off the back of Mount Rose Ski >> Area in a fog and wound up below the last chairlift thousands of feet >> above >> the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of >> date >> lift ticket. He walked out to US395 after spending a very cold night in >> the >> trees. Later that month, just outside a cozy ski cabin in Squaw Valley, >> I >> tried Bill's trick and spent the night outside in the snow with just what >> I >> would have been carrying had I been skiing. Sobering experience. Bill >> was >> lucky, had the clouds gone away the temperature would have dropped >> precipitously and he likely would have died of hypothermia. >> >> So what's in YOUR Bug-out Bag? Where would you go if you HAD to? How >> would >> you adapt, improvise, and overcome? >> > > > > -- > Jake > 1984 Vanagon GL > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" > www.crescentbeachguitar.com |
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