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72-Hour Emergency Kit Accessibility

There is no way to know the exact day or hour when a crisis may strike. The best you can do is access and prepare for any dangers your location is likely to experience, especially with regards to earthquakes, mudslides, hurricanes, and flash floods. Ask your city planners what contingencies they have in place for emergencies and find out where your area shelters are located in the event of nuclear attack (more on this later in the chapter).

For the most part, preparedness will cover most contingencies. Even so, your personal safety could be directly tied to getting where you need to be. This is made much easier with a 72-hour emergency kit that contains three days worth of basic survival goods. Recommended items are listed at the end of this chapter. These kits are sometimes referred to as emergency kits, 72-hour kits, bug-out kits, or grab-and-go kits, but whatever one chooses to call them, there are an alarming number of folks who recommend they be stored at home. I have a short, concise retort for that notion: Dumb idea! If you are at work or out running errands when a disaster strikes, the roads will quickly become gridlocked, especially if you live in the city, while your emergency kit is stored uselessly in your basement. I rest my case.