Emergency/Survival kits for your Home &Vehicle why you need them!!

[@rapalaron6348]

You're well prepared my friend 👍 My "grab bag" has a lot similar stuff in it. Better prepared and never need it than be unprepared when shit will hit the fan. I promise, the most are not prepared and start to think when it's to late. Have also a few hundred gallons diesel fuel home for my car, tractor and power generator. Take care buddy!

[@BravoBassin]

hey my friend and thanks I try to be preppared and I was just talkin gto my wife about getting a gravity take for fuel like the one we uesd to have on the ranches I work on growing up. So that is in the works. take care and stay safe.

[@leonstancliff7218]

Very enjoyable but I have questions. 1. What do you have in your pockets? That is all those folks in the mountains had after they watched everything they owned, and half their family, wash down the hollow. House, car, rucksacks and storages sheds, all gone! People were tying themselves to trees! All that was left was the clothes on their backs and the knowledge in their heads. 2. Don't you think some of the space taken up by 10 knives, a machete and a saw could be put to better use with inclusion of more food and a trauma kit? Some of those people could not source outside help for a week after the hurricane. An extra knife is one thing but you have gone bonkers over the top with that many redundant blades. It's discrediting. Offload about 8 of them and replace them with an AR7 or a Keltec P17 and 100 rounds of Minimags. Same weight, more food gathering potential. 3. A radio as essential survival gear? I do not remember hearing of a single person rescued due to access to their walkie talkie! How good is the line of sight reception in the mountains? I can barely keep the TV signal in my part of KY and have to climb the hill to get cell reception. Yes, ham is useful in the right places, after everyone realizes everything else is Kaput, they find a ham set that was not washed downstream, then figure out how many hundred channels are being swamped and jammed with You-tubers trying to get the latest scoop and the efforts of Buba trying to call his Mama. No one but police and fire service uses hand held radios on closed nets any more and you do not normally have access to those channels. That function has been replaced with apps on your cell phone. Text goes where other signals fear to tread. They learned that during Katrina 20 years ago. 4. It is the 21st Century, always keep your phone charged. Gas in the tank of the car that washed down the French Broad River is useless, a full charge on the cell phone in your pocket has value. Include a power pack in that rucksack. You absolutely have to have shelter by dark today, water by dark tomorrow, food within a couple of weeks. Within 24 hours they had rescue choppers looking for survivors in those hills. What did I hear them say they were looking for? Flashes of emergency orange, signs of movement, FLASHES FROM SIGNAL MIRRORS, and folks waving at them frantically. From there the choppers sent in rescue on foot, vehicle or mule. The great tragedy of this incident was when they found people and knew it would take a week to get to them with supplies and they could not land in that rugged terrain to get them out. You just stepped into a time machine, it's 1750 again and you are on your own on the frontier. Are you better off with 12 extra knives or two good knives and a pound of salt? Most wild game tastes like crap without salt!

[@BravoBassin]

Well I will say this that was a lot to read and written by someone that really should pay a little more attention to the video as well. I say that because of you had payed attention one you would know that I literally have and talked about the trauma kit that is attached to the pack in the video. 2 a cell phone is useless when all the cell tower are down which is not only what happened in katrina 20yrs ago but what has happened with Helene and is still happening in these areas that have zero cell service so your cell phone would not and will not be of any help in these situations. As far as the knives I only carry a few back ups and some of those are to be able to give to someone else if needed you feel free to put what ever you want in your own pack. As far as a gun goes I am skilled enough to trap and take game in many other ways then having to use a fire arm. A fire arm is always a good thing to have so I am not saying it is not but most of us that have a clue usually are already carring one on us so no need to put it in my bag. And if you actually had a clue and new what you were talking about you would know that radios such as HAM, GMRS and FRS hae been the only way many people have been able to communicate not only in this current situation with hurricane Helene but during Katrina as well. And these radios have saved more lives then any cell phone why because there is literally no cell service or power in many areas still duh!! Comms are huge in an emergency and if you think your phone is going to save you well you are a fool and won't last long. I could spend a tone of time giving you examples of radios saving peoples lives but I am not going to waste my time. And if you would have payed attention to the video you would know that the shelter I carry in my pack has a green side and a reflective side why gee I do not know maybe so I can signle some one in the air if I need to??? duh!! Also as some one that has experience in emergency situations and has lived in very remote area's most of my life I carry the things I do because I have learned what I want and need from experience not sitting on my ass being a keyboard commando. Now as for what I have in my pockets well I carry 2 lighters with gorrilla duck tape wrapped around them one in each pocket I have a large folding knife clipped in my left pocket along with a knife sharpener and 1 lighter. I carry a straight blade on my left side usually a Joker trampero with fire steel and a leatherman multi tool on my right and then in my other pocket is my second lighter and very small gentlemans pocket knife which is a Joker and a zippo fire steel as well as a Rocktol half multi tool clipped into my pocket. See I actually spend a lot of time outside in the wilderness and have learned a lot about what I want to make surre I have on me at all times. I have literally lived on top of the rockie mountains in wyoming in a cabin that the only way you could get to it in the winter was by snow mobile and I lived up there for several years. And let me say tis as well so I can clarify this you can only go 3 days witout water 3 days without some kind of shelter and 3 weeks without food and then you are done. So water and shelter are always your top priority and then fire and that is why after 72 hours search and rescue teams switch to search a recovery after 3 days I know this because I used to be on a search and rescue team as well as an EMT. And oh ya we used radios all the time to save peoples lives just FYI. So the moral to this message is and as I said in the video you figure out what you need in your bag as it may be different from what I think I need But having some prepperations is better then none. But no matter how much you plan and prep you can't be prepared for it all. But redundancy which is something you complained about with me having to many knives well redundancy will help make sure that when everything gets washed away or lost you still at least have something to work with hense my redundancy which is something else I have learn a long the way is to always have a back up and a back up for your back up. and if you go this far then you know how I felt when I read yourl ong list of what ever that was complaining about things that you dis agreed with in my video. good luck with that cell phone when all the cell towers are out and all the power is gone. It is at that momment you will wish you had took a little time to learn more about how HAM and GMRS radios really work in these situations. But all I can do is put the information I know and have learned out there what you do with it is up to you.

[@leonstancliff7218]

@@BravoBassin I usually agree with most of your reasoning but you are stuck on 1950 technology and NASA style redundancy on this one. Besides, your rucksack washed down the river with your vehicle this time.

[@BravoBassin]

@@leonstancliff7218 Well the funny thing is that 1950's tech has saved the day more times then I can count in emergancy situations as well as in military combat situations and that goes for the redudancy as well. And is still currently doing that today. And oh ya I have more then one ruck sack stashed away in different places so ya that so called Nasa redundacy always helps as well. But you feel free to trust in all that new tech crap and I will stick with what I actually know works in real world situations when things go to crap fast as I have lived through more then a few extreme situations .