The ballons gone up.... what are you saving?

ok, you have 1 day to get out, you can take 1 rubbish bag with you...... what are you taking, what are the 10 most important things?

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survival stuff we might need or just the shit we want???

1/2 pie serious, 1/2 pie desert island disk.......
I heard an interveiw with a nzer in orleans, she took her cat, her papers and a vintage frock

1 - ID / Passport / Wallet
2 - Tent / Sleeping Bag
3 - As much food & water as possible
4 - Knife
5 - Lighter / matches
6 - Clothes - Jacket / hat
7 - First Aid Kit
8 - PS2 Memory Card
9 - iPod
10 - Kayak (2 person so I can take my girlfriend – and if worse comes to worse, I can always eat her)

Gee - I think I'd take my survival pack and a good book... Lets see it would take me 10 minutes to grab the pack and I'd spend the rest of the day reading the book (waiting for whatever disaster it is).

In my pack are the following...

1. Drinking Water and vitiam additives (berocca)
2. First aid kit (including survival blanket/bandages/antiseptics/quineen tablets/mirror)
3. Maps w/ key locations marked (supermarkets, sporting stores, civil defense points)
4. Multitool (my leatherman)
5. Batteryless Torch / matches / zippo
6. Change of clothes (2 full pairs polyprops, windbreaker, socks, gloves, belaclava, hat, glasses)
7. Canned and dehydrated food (w/ can opener)
8. Water sterilisation pack (though really this is all in the first aid kit)
9. Radio (for CD updates)
10. ID (drivers license / personal papers)

Theres more in there but I can't remember it all off the top of my head. Water sterilsation would be the one thing which I consider vital!

and glow sticks........ I'd have them over candles

Thats why I have a batteryless torch!

In case you hadn't heard about them they have no battery, you shake them for some time to charge them up (use stored kinetic energy to charge the cells) and then they run for a while before you need to shake them again! Bloody brilliant idea if you ask me!

//and glow sticks........

And if people have lifejackets with attention whistles, we can have ourselves a rave while we wait...

The man child has a cute one from viet nam that you repeatedly squeeze the trigger in the handle, it works like an old bike dynamo, sort of.

//The man child

Did he ever figure out where that coin was from?
(Off-topic, sorry.)

//has a cute one from viet nam that you repeatedly squeeze the trigger in the handle, it works like an old bike dynamo, sort of.

Coolness!! These newer ones are far more efficient (which means less work for the operator) but it's pretty much the same principle. They do kind of fascinate me - I took one apart to have a look at how it works and they're remarkably simple devices.

I'd take Sebastian, some cat food and my handbag. Also probably my sister, but I imagine she'd probably save herself.

If we were just evacuating to my parents' house up the hill, I would take my laptop too.

//my handbag........... that would be the hand bag full of fags but no drugs?

It'd have my iPod and cellphone in it, but it's a literal handbag, not a metaphorical one, so no fags....

1. photos
2. letters
bag would be farking heavy, but ...
3. iBook
4. iPod
5. 3 precious musical instruments that, if i left behind, i would feel like a parent abandoning their child.
that's it - i'll rent out the rest of the space in my bag for cans of spaghetti/chilli beans/blueberries/apricots/tomatoes.
this would have freaked me out big time in the past, before i put my CD collection on the pod.

& what worthy Lughead said above - ID, passport, etc.

1. Pack
2. Bottled water
3. Canned tuna fish (in spring water)
4. 2 minute noodles
5. Portable gas stove
6. Can opener
7. Matches
8. Wooly blanket
9. Baglama
10. Wife

11. Pot for cooking noodles....

...but it's only 10 right? Ah well... I can always find another wife ;-) ha ha ha ...

You would put your wife in a rubbish bag anyway????
actually wifes come with their own 10 items.

I would never put my wife in a rubbish bag. We're talking a fairly decent Kathmandu hiking pack, here. This thing is like the Tardus.

in the chance that the entire wellington region had to be evacuated for any reason (earthquake, flood, chemical accident, terrorist attack, rampaging mob, etc) my list will include

1 - Bottled Water
2 - Canned food (spaghetti, baked beans, fruit)
3 - My collection of favorite artists, portable CD Player, Waklkman and batteries for listening to the news for any updates.
4 - Communications equipment - ie. Mobile let everyone know your safe.
5 - Blankets, spare clothing,
6 - Tent
7 - Matches plus firewood
8 - something to pass the time with (hand held gamesman)
9 - an ounce of herbal medz
10 - 2 dozen beer.

if of anything an evacuation would only be for 3 days so half the stuff would already be there when i get back.

All the pussy I could find.I love cats

interested to note a few of you are taking cell phones

If I'm going to be sitting in an evacuation centre for days, I at least want to be able to play Snake while I'm there!

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A shotgun and a bottle of whiskey.