2aHawaii
General Topics => Preparedness and Survival => Topic started by: changemyoil66 on January 02, 2022, 09:23:32 AM
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https://youtu.be/wBJnBFDnaYE
Due to crackheads breaking into cars often, i do not keep a BOB in my car. Only thing i got is 2 TQs, israeli bandage, and glass breaker in the center consule.
Reminds me of the missile warning, luckily it was early as most people were at home.
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No. I am not. I am counting on our government to take care of me.
I have no survival equipment, firearms or food and water supplies. I also have no money.
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No. I made the decision we need to hunker down here if something goes awry. Phoenix people may try to bug out here. I’ve put in my preps. Now I am hardening this place. I have family that will also need a place to bug out to and we decided this is where they are coming to. The rest of my family is also in a good place in UT.
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I also will not bug out and will hunker down. My current thought is that there is probably no place I'd be comfortable going to on Oahu other than where I am now.
My immediate family (kids and grandkids and their partners or spouse) will come to my small, simple, residence where we can support each other.
My dwelling also is located on the central plains of this island, so we are not affected by tsunamis, unless it's a tsunami generated by Commifornia falling into the Pacific Ocean due to the San Andreas fault.
Missle alert? Well, if this time it's for real, it's best to be with your family till the end.
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What's a BOB and TQ?
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What's a BOB and TQ?
Bug Out Bag
Tourniquet
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What's a BOB and TQ?
Terrance Quaites, known professionally as TQ, is an American R&B singer
Picture of BOB
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BOB? He's around ....
(https://i.imgur.com/iwxVFuo.gif)
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VA had a major snow story yesterday. Vehicles stuck on the highway overnight. Wonder how many ran out of gas. As a good measure, I always kept my tank at 1/2 full b4 refilling. Now that I have an EV, when it goes to 70%, I recharge back to 90% (car maker recommends not going to 100% all the time, unless going on a road trip). Only reason why I charge at 70% is because it's convenient due to the free charger being at my office. So when it's open, I hop in.
A few years ago, we were at Trader Joes in Vegas. A woman was waiting outside for her husband. He was coming from some where on the main highway. This highway has accidents often which causes hours of delay. So an accident did happen and he was delayed. So it's a good think they keep water and snacks in the car due to this happening often. But she was waiting outside and had TJ's put the perishables in their fridge. We left, so IDK how long until her husband showed up.
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Bug Out Bag
Tourniquet
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oh yeah
I always had one.... just didn't call it that.
In the Mormon church, it's called a 72-hour kit.
Typically, in a suitcase.
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oh yeah
I always had one.... just didn't call it that.
In the Mormon church, it's called a 72-hour kit.
Typically, in a suitcase.
I'm too lazy to type it all out and don't know how to spell TQ.
Since my wife travels a lot for work, she talks to many people who leave their purses on the seat of their car and eat dinner or be gone for hours and no problem. Unlike HI who would get their window bashed in. Not every city is safe, like Portland, Seattle, San Fran, San Jose. But the safe ones she mentioned are Madison, WI, Austin, San Antonio, DFW, Northern WA close to the Canada border, border of WA and OR.
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I’ve often seen Asian tourists in Waikiki leave their purse, bag, etc on a planter at boundary of a restaurant and along a public sidewalk. :o
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I’ve often seen Asian tourists in Waikiki leave their purse, bag, etc on a planter at boundary of a restaurant and along a public sidewalk. :o
In Japan, it's common for people to leave their bags/laptops on a table and go to the restroom or grab food. Seen it happen all the time at the old Shirokiya village. HPD is on site to make a report cause someone stole a ladies purse she left on the table. Sucks cause inside is her passport.
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I keep a bugout bag in my closet
I may need to bugout in case of hurricane, tsunami, or another situation where i cannot hunker down. I'd rather hunker down, but sometimes you gotta bugout
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Shoot I have to repack mine. I keep raiding it for stuff and pretty sure some things are expired.
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Shoot I have to repack mine. I keep raiding it for stuff and pretty sure some things are expired.
I rotate mine jan 1st every year. Same goes with HP ammo, but didnt do it in 2020 due to the cost.
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I rotate mine jan 1st every year. Same goes with HP ammo, but didnt do it in 2020 due to the cost.
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I do the same. Including replacing all the smoke detector batteries in the house. That way they don’t go off in the middle of the night. :rofl:
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I do the same. Including replacing all the smoke detector batteries in the house. That way they don’t go off in the middle of the night. :rofl:
Yeah, they tend to do that. Ours had the low battery chirp at 2am. So I removed the battery, but it's hardwired so it kept chirping. Luckily my neighbor was up at had a spare battery. Now I keep a few as back up. I didn't want to unplug it from the hardwire just in case it sets of the main alarm or something. That's beyond my pay grade.
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I keep a bugout bag in my closet
I may need to bugout in case of hurricane, tsunami, or another situation where i cannot hunker down. I'd rather hunker down, but sometimes you gotta bugout
The most common and likely BO scenario is a fire. :shake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpbrRgKrSs
Excerpt from link below
"Pre-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, stumble about trying to put some clothes on and eventually manage to be 'decent'. You dash out into the living room, which is now filled with smoke, and you start searching for Whiskers the Cat, who you finally find under the sofa. He doesn't come when you call, and you can't quite reach him so you spend some time working on that. When you do manage to fish the ungrateful creature out from under there, you stand up with him to try to get out of the house - but it's too late - you are overcome by smoke and you die on the floor.
Post-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, snatch your BOB and your wife's BOB out from under the bed, grab your laptop bag, and dash out of the door. Your wife, who grabbed Junior out of his crib in your bedroom is right behind you. She's naked too. (May as well get as much play out of that as I can...) The whole family rendezvous at the mailbox, where you all unzip your BOBs and pull on some clothes. Whoever is dressed first dials 911 on the cell phone. If the weather is warm, you can call before you get dressed. Health and Wealth protected.
Too bad about Whiskers, but you were more of a dog person anyway... "
Ours are right next to the bed as is a cell phone.
Throw it out the window, follow it and we have . . .
Full change of clothes (2x underwear and socks)
Meds
$100 in small bills
Set of all keys, vehicles, home, storage
Flash drive with all important docs (Marriage license, firearm registrations,vehicle titles, Birth certificates, cherished photos, contacts etc...)
2 meals 1 liter water +
Extra pair of glasses
IFAK + misc medical
hygiene (toothbrush, paste, soap, washcloth and towel
There are other BO things like fire starter, knife, flashlight, compass, water purification etc . . so it's an all around BOB
Again, I will refer you to The HYST page of the site below but GREAT info here all the way around
https://www.theplacewithnoname.com/blogs/klessons/p/map.html
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Yeah, they tend to do that. Ours had the low battery chirp at 2am. So I removed the battery, but it's hardwired so it kept chirping. Luckily my neighbor was up at had a spare battery. Now I keep a few as back up. I didn't want to unplug it from the hardwire just in case it sets of the main alarm or something. That's beyond my pay grade.
Oh, and I forgot to mention my safe has an electronic keypad. So those batteries get replaced every year as well. I always keep extras for all my devices (especially TV remotes). And I take all the batteries out of devices I don’t intend to use for a while such as my stud finder. :rofl:
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Oh, and I forgot to mention my safe has an electronic keypad. So those batteries get replaced every year as well. I always keep extras for all my devices (especially TV remotes). And I take all the batteries out of devices I don’t intend to use for a while such as my stud finder. :rofl:
Hows car break ins over there? Like is it a concern like how it is in HI?
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Hows car break ins over there? Like is it a concern like how it is in HI?
I can’t tell you how many times my wife left her purse on the front seat and I forgot to lock the car. Same goes for my leaving my phone in the car. Basically nonexistent. I won’t say they don’t happen. Just that it is rare. In my neighborhood cars park in the driveway overnight. Have not heard of any break-ins since I moved here.
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The most common and likely BO scenario is a fire. :shake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpbrRgKrSs
Excerpt from link below
"Pre-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, stumble about trying to put some clothes on and eventually manage to be 'decent'. You dash out into the living room, which is now filled with smoke, and you start searching for Whiskers the Cat, who you finally find under the sofa. He doesn't come when you call, and you can't quite reach him so you spend some time working on that. When you do manage to fish the ungrateful creature out from under there, you stand up with him to try to get out of the house - but it's too late - you are overcome by smoke and you die on the floor.
Post-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, snatch your BOB and your wife's BOB out from under the bed, grab your laptop bag, and dash out of the door. Your wife, who grabbed Junior out of his crib in your bedroom is right behind you. She's naked too. (May as well get as much play out of that as I can...) The whole family rendezvous at the mailbox, where you all unzip your BOBs and pull on some clothes. Whoever is dressed first dials 911 on the cell phone. If the weather is warm, you can call before you get dressed. Health and Wealth protected.
Too bad about Whiskers, but you were more of a dog person anyway... "
Ours are right next to the bed as is a cell phone.
Throw it out the window, follow it and we have . . .
Full change of clothes (2x underwear and socks)
Meds
$100 in small bills
Set of all keys, vehicles, home, storage
Flash drive with all important docs (Marriage license, firearm registrations,vehicle titles, Birth certificates, cherished photos, contacts etc...)
2 meals 1 liter water +
Extra pair of glasses
IFAK + misc medical
hygiene (toothbrush, paste, soap, washcloth and towel
There are other BO things like fire starter, knife, flashlight, compass, water purification etc . . so it's an all around BOB
Again, I will refer you to The HYST page of the site below but GREAT info here all the way around
https://www.theplacewithnoname.com/blogs/klessons/p/map.html
We had a fire drill the first night of field training for college ROTC.
The regs said, in case of a fire alarm, put on HARD sole shoes and wrap yourself in a blanket. Do not take anything else.
We had all our shoes under our bunks, so sliding our feet into a pair was quick. The problem many had was they didn't read the reg and were walking around in flip-flops/slippers. They also didn't have a blanket, which is why we stood around for 30 minutes outside in the chilly night air -- to drive home that point.
If you want your BOB to be accessible in an emergency evac, it's better to leave them in an outside detached shed, or in your vehicle. Being in the car provides double duty as a BOB and as a Get Home bag -- for when something happens and you can't make it home that day.
Anyway, I always sleep with hard sole shoes next to the bed now -- zippered boots. And I have a smaller blanket than for the King bed -- just for evac purposes.
Instead of a blanket, you could also keep a robe in the bedroom. Anything that can be thrown around you. It's not so much about being buck naked in front of the house as it is having some protection from anything that might cause injury -- like fire?
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Anyway, I always sleep with hard sole shoes next to the bed now -- zippered boots.
Larry Lawton said in a YT vid that you can tell when there's going to be a fight. Everyone is wearing shoes. This comment gave me a chuckle as I thought about that.
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Larry Lawton said in a YT vid that you can tell when there's going to be a fight. Everyone is wearing shoes. This comment gave me a chuckle as I thought about that.
I guess he's never seen Billy Jack getting ready to fight...
https://youtu.be/-IEblkFG2Uw
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The most common and likely BO scenario is a fire. :shake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujpbrRgKrSs
Excerpt from link below
"Pre-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, stumble about trying to put some clothes on and eventually manage to be 'decent'. You dash out into the living room, which is now filled with smoke, and you start searching for Whiskers the Cat, who you finally find under the sofa. He doesn't come when you call, and you can't quite reach him so you spend some time working on that. When you do manage to fish the ungrateful creature out from under there, you stand up with him to try to get out of the house - but it's too late - you are overcome by smoke and you die on the floor.
Post-HYST, you wake up in the night to the sound of your smoke alarms. The house is on fire! You roll out of bed naked, snatch your BOB and your wife's BOB out from under the bed, grab your laptop bag, and dash out of the door. Your wife, who grabbed Junior out of his crib in your bedroom is right behind you. She's naked too. (May as well get as much play out of that as I can...) The whole family rendezvous at the mailbox, where you all unzip your BOBs and pull on some clothes. Whoever is dressed first dials 911 on the cell phone. If the weather is warm, you can call before you get dressed. Health and Wealth protected.
Too bad about Whiskers, but you were more of a dog person anyway... "
Ours are right next to the bed as is a cell phone.
Throw it out the window, follow it and we have . . .
Full change of clothes (2x underwear and socks)
Meds
$100 in small bills
Set of all keys, vehicles, home, storage
Flash drive with all important docs (Marriage license, firearm registrations,vehicle titles, Birth certificates, cherished photos, contacts etc...)
2 meals 1 liter water +
Extra pair of glasses
IFAK + misc medical
hygiene (toothbrush, paste, soap, washcloth and towel
There are other BO things like fire starter, knife, flashlight, compass, water purification etc . . so it's an all around BOB
Again, I will refer you to The HYST page of the site below but GREAT info here all the way around
https://www.theplacewithnoname.com/blogs/klessons/p/map.html
Funny cause we have 3 cats. And our condo has had about 8 false alarms in the past 1.5 years. It happens so often that unless I smell or see smoke, we're like F-it. The most recent false alarm was mid December when my mom was cat sitting cause we were in Vegas. She text me and I told her no worry unless there's smoke. Sure enough, 3 mins later the all clear came on.
But back to the cats, when our alarm goes off, I have about 1 minute before all 3 go under the bed. So what I do is immediately close the bedroom door. Then it's try and grab them.
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I guess he's never seen Billy Jack getting ready to fight...
https://youtu.be/-IEblkFG2Uw
That was filmed in the Prescott Town Square. :love:
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Don't plan to "Bug out". I already did that 35 some years ago.
But fir traveling you always want water, space blanket, and multi tool.
Food isn't the highest priority. You can go a long time without food.
Remember the rule of "Threes".
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