{"id":49228,"date":"2019-10-29T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49228"},"modified":"2019-10-29T06:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T11:10:59","slug":"survival-learnings-from-a-california-fire-evacuee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49228","title":{"rendered":"Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/survival-learnings-from-a-california-fire-evacuee\/\"><strong>Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They universally apply to any unexpected emergency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I type this, there are over 16 large wildfires currently burning across northern and southern California. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. Millions are without power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hometown of Sebastopol, CA underwent mandatory evacuation at 4am Saturday night. I jumped into the car, along with our life essentials and our pets, joining the 200,000 souls displaced from Sonoma County this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though I write about preparedness for a living, fleeing your home in the dead of night with a raging inferno clearly visible on the horizon drives home certain lessons more effectively than any other means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to share those learnings with you, as they\u2019re true for any sort of emergency:&nbsp;<strong>natural<\/strong>&nbsp;(fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, blizzard, etc),&nbsp;<strong>financial<\/strong>&nbsp;(market crash, currency crisis) or&nbsp;<strong>social<\/strong>&nbsp;(revolution, civil unrest, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019d like you to be as prepared as possible should one of those happen to you, which is statistically likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your survival, and that of your loved ones, may depend on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No Plan Survives First Contact With Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned, I\u2019ve spent years advising readers on the importance of preparation. Emergency preparedness is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/what-should-i-do\/\">Step Zero<\/a>&nbsp;of the guide I\u2019ve written on resilient living \u2014 literally the first chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yes, I had a pre-designed bug-out plan in place when the evacuation warning was issued. My wife and I had long ago made lists of the essentials we\u2019d take with us if forced to flee on short notice (the Santa Rosa fires of 2017 had reinforced the wisdom of this). Everything on these lists was in an easy to grab location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only problem was, we were 300 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reality Rule #1: You\u00a0Will\u00a0Be Caught By Surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee They universally apply to any unexpected emergency As I type this, there are over 16 large wildfires currently burning across northern and southern California. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. Millions are without power. My hometown of Sebastopol, CA underwent mandatory evacuation at 4am Saturday night. 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