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Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag Your 72 Hour Disaster Survival Kit
You're very welcome, I'm certainly not as far along my own continuum as I would like to be but I found it to be the best way for me to make sure my efforts were realistic, risk-based, and incremental.
If you're comfortable with "today" and plan on hunkering in, I would suggest ensuring you cover the must-haves at home (e.g. food, water, shelter, communications, etc.) for at least 72 hours and means to reliably get there. I would accomplish this by maintaining your vehicles and ensuring they have Get Home Bags - GHBs can be something kept in vehicles for each person to compliment your normal EDC.
For my area these are normally 24 hours of gear and pretty light because there are very few reasons (environmentally) we would have to abandon our homes. Your area may be different and the risk is higher, requiring you to immediately leave the area and require something larger like a 72 hour bag because of hurricanes, frequent flooding, forest fires, etc.
EDIT Creek Stewart actually put out a very rational, well thought out book on designing various disaster bags that are right for you. I would recommend it. He summarized the GHB concept in a guest post on Art of Manliness.
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Read this instead.
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