"The Smarter Emergency Kit"

[thewayne]

From Wired Magazine. It's a pretty darn sensible kit built on the concept that it took three days for emergency services to arrive during Katrina and Rita.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/st_emergency.html

Comments

[cteare.livejournal.com]

One thing they don't mention - be sure to store your emergency kit someplace where you can get to it easily. A lot of people found that after the Northridge earthquake, their kits were inaccessible.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Excellent point. I suppose part of the concept is that in the event of a predictable disaster, you'd probably have the sense to have a big kit in the car and personal kits by the door. But for a no-warning disaster, it definitely changes things a bit.