{"id":49281,"date":"2019-10-30T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49281"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T17:30:08","slug":"essential-bug-out-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49281","title":{"rendered":"Essential Bug-Out Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Essential Bug-Out Resources<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Solutions that have proved surprisingly essential during California’s wildfires<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my post yesterday Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee<\/a>, I promised to share the specific resources that have proved especially valuable during my family\u2019s emergency evacuation due to the Kincade fire. So I\u2019d better get to it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas & Cash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having now been surprised by two massive fires within the past two years, in both instances, the preparation I was most immediately grateful for \u2014 hands down \u2014 was having sufficient on-property stores of gasoline and cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moment your community realizes that flight may be necessary, forget going to the gas station. In my area, the lines were 20+ cars deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting in those kind of lines (when there\u2019s no guarantee there will be gas left when your turn finally comes) can easily cause you to miss your window of safety. As I mentioned yesterday, my friends who tried to evacuate just 45 minutes after I did eventually had to turn back home because the roads out of town had become hopelessly gridlocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So get in the habit of keeping your cars\u2019 fuel tanks topped off, especially during times of seasonal risk (fire season, hurricane season, flood season, etc). Make it a point never to return home with the gauge below half-full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, keep at least a tank\u2019s-worth of gasoline stored on your property. In my case, I have four 5-gallon gas cans. This ensures I can get to safety even if I\u2019ve forgotten to keep the car tank full. And if I\u2019ve remembered, I can throw the cans in the car for an extra 300+ miles of range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, once the electricity goes out, the ATMs stop working. Having $500-$3,000 of emergency cash on hand to take with you makes a huge difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essential Bug-Out Resources Solutions that have proved surprisingly essential during California’s wildfires In my post yesterday Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee, I promised to share the specific resources that have proved especially valuable during my family\u2019s emergency evacuation due to the Kincade fire. So I\u2019d better get to it\u2026 Gas & Cash Having now […]<\/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":[9860,6191,983,27452,9521,27465,339,3378,27466,2218],"class_list":["post-49281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-adam-taggart","tag-atm","tag-bug-out-bag","tag-california-fire","tag-emergency-preparation","tag-fire-evacuation","tag-fuel","tag-gasoline","tag-kincade-fire","tag-peak-prosperity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49281","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=49281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49283,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49281\/revisions\/49283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}