Doomsday planning for less crazy folk
I&#x27;ve been in a number of major natural disasters at this point.  Fukushima, Ike, Colorado&#x27;s 2013 floods.  I&#x27;ve also been in two shooting incidents (where fortunately only the shooter was hurt).  My point is, I&#x27;ve been lucky so far because none of these posed a major problem for me.  I made it out with manageable inconvenience.<p>However, I can only get lucky like that so many times.<p>So now I keep the following at home:<p>* 5 gallons drinking water<p>* Canned food for a week<p>* First aid kit<p>* Matches, lighter, Sterno cans<p>* Solar USB charger<p>* Many flashlights with spare batteries, plus a battery-powered lantern<p>* Hand-crank radio<p>* Solid liquor collection ;)<p>* Equipment to make a fresh cup of coffee with no electricity (Sterno, hand-crank coffee grinder, French press)<p>* A big bucket for, well, sanitation<p>I&#x27;ve also got my camping supplies, which includes a Coleman stove and a few small propane canisters.  Having been in a few floods I will also never live in a ground-floor apartment.  I also keep all this stuff boxed up in plastic crates, so if I needed to evacuate I could load up my car with all this gear in about 20 minutes and be on my way.  My goal is to be able to survive a week trapped in my apartment with no utilities, or living out of my car for the same amount of time.<p>I bike to work and in my pannier I keep a Leatherman multitool, pocket knife, latex gloves (mostly for fixing my bike chain, but also useful in other emergencies), 3M N99 mask, flashlight, poncho, a garbage bag and a small thing of duct tape.  In most of the kinds of disasters that hit Colorado, I would be able to get home, either walking or by bike.  I only live about three miles from work.