Get Home Bag - Emergency Prepper

Get Home Bag

Preppers, you may have heard of a Bug Out Bag (BOB) which is used to help you survive an emergency when you need to leave, but a get home bag or emergency backpack helps you do just that, get home.

If you are out and about at work, or school, and an emergency arises, you may have a hard time getting home.  If there is a power outage, your car breaks down or anything else where you will need to walk home, your Get Home Bag may make a world of difference.

To create a Get Home Bag, you should start with a sturdy, inconspicuous bag.  A simple backpack should be fine.  In it, you will need to put anything you think may help to get you home or your get home survival kit.  If you wear dress shoes at work, you may consider putting in a pair of walking shoes.  Some food, a knife (or two), a way to make fire, an emergency whistle, a blanket or two, some water, hand sanitizer, a first aid kit, some money, or anything else you may need to walk home along a non-traditional path.   

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Prepper - Keeping Up Communication In an Emergency

When an emergency or disaster hits home, many of our friends and family will try to contact us to make sure we are okay.  Our immediate family may be scattered across town, at work, school, shopping, or anywhere else.  You should make an emergency communication plan when you are working on prepping.  In today’s technologically advanced society, we have social media and cell phones to let people know how things are.  A quick text to family or a post on your usual social media site such as Facebook or Twitter, will put others at ease that you are alive, and trying to get home.

If there is a survival emergency where you can not get home, you can text or call family members to decide where you can rendezvous so you can sit down and make plans for what to do next.  Hopefully in your prepper planning you have already decided where your final destination is to bug out, and just need to regroup and rest for a while.

One essential piece of survival gear for communication during an emergency would be a car charger for your phone.  This is important so you can keep your phone charged to keep in touch with loved ones.  You may have to live in your car for a day or two, and the car charger would be an invaluable piece of equipment.  If you purchase an off brand
charger, you may be able to get a set that may charge a number of
different phones in your family.


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Preppers - Stay in or Bug out?

Prepping to Stay Home or Bug Out:

When a natural disaster such as a storm or hurricane is coming, it is up to you as a prepper to decide if you are staying in your home, or leaving (bugging out) to keep safe.  Every emergency is unique, but many survival decisions can be made before hand.  If you decide to leave when you know a storm or hurricane is coming, where will you go?  Do you have friends or family you can stay with who live outside of the storm’s range?  Do you have a cabin or camper or tents you can retreat to which are better prepared for “roughing it” than your home is?  These are all things to consider before you need to leave.  (If you are going to the home of a friend or family, please call first so they can clean for you.)

 If you are staying in your home, do you have everything you will need to survive for at least three days (according to FEMA) , or what I would recommend, a week or more?  There are many items that are needed for emergency preparedness.  Basic emergency survival prepping includes; candles, flashlights, food that needs little to no preparation, and a gallon of water per person per each day.  If it is winter, consider how you will keep warm without using anything that will harm you or your family with toxic fumes.

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