{"id":13721,"date":"2015-10-22T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:36:01","slug":"the-get-back-home-urban-survival-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13721","title":{"rendered":"The Get Back Home Urban Survival Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/urban-survival-kit-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Get Back Home Urban Survival Kit<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23258\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/city-URBAN-SURVIVAL.png?resize=300%2C283\" alt=\"city URBAN SURVIVAL\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/>Most of you probably have a\u00a0<a title=\"bug out bag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/survival-guns\/selecting-guns-for-bug-out-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\">bug out bag<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 having a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/bug-out-bag-contents-lists-and-bugging-out\/\">bug out bag<\/a>\u00a0is good insurance in the event you\u00a0are forced\u00a0to evacuate your home or retreat for some unforeseen reason. It seems most of us are ready to\u00a0bug out, \u00a0but few of us have considered the need to find our way back home if caught away during an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt,\u00a0many of you spend a lot of time away from home, with work, school and business sometimes taking you hundreds of miles away from home. Most of the time this isn\u2019t an issue for me, but recently, I\u2019ve had to make several business trips that have taken me out of state and far from home.<\/p>\n<p>What would I do if disaster struck while I was several hundred miles from home?\u00a0What would I do in the event of a terrorist attack, riot,\u00a0earthquake or similar disaster.\u00a0Could I get back home? What would I do if forced to stay in the\u00a0area for several days or even weeks?<\/p>\n<p>With any luck I\u2019ll be able to drive out, but you never know \u2013 the roads could be blocked or impassable because of damage, the area could be quarantined or it could be too dangerous to move for several days.<\/p>\n<p>As with anything related to survival, there are no guarantees and I doubt her father could make it under anything but the best of conditions considering his health. I just hope nothing bad happens with him in tow.<\/p>\n<p>To increase our odds of making it back or surviving\u00a0in the city\u00a0if needed, I\u2019ve\u00a0put together\u00a0a\u00a0\u201cGet Home Kit\u201d\u00a0that I take on extended trips. Sure I could have just\u00a0taken my\u00a0<a title=\"The Ultimate BOB List (Bug Out Bag)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/uncategorized\/bug-out-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\">bug out bag<\/a>, but it really isn\u2019t the best solution and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/recommended-products\/\">gear<\/a>\u00a0 for the most part, isn\u2019t what I\u2019d need in an urban setting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Get Back Home Urban Survival Kit Most of you probably have a\u00a0bug out bag\u00a0\u2013 having a\u00a0bug out bag\u00a0is good insurance in the event you\u00a0are forced\u00a0to evacuate your home or retreat for some unforeseen reason. It seems most of us are ready to\u00a0bug out, \u00a0but few of us have considered the need to find our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[983,3316,2924,3366,10138,10137,766,9146],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-bug-out-bag","tag-disaster","tag-emergency","tag-evacuation","tag-home","tag-md-creekmor","tag-survival","tag-the-survivalist-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}