Bug-out bag. Off-the-shelf Red Cross preparedness kit .
A bug-out bag[1][2] is a portable kit that contains the items one would require to survive for seventy-two hours[3][4] when evacuating from a disaster. The focus is on evacuation, rather than long-term survival, distinguishing the bug-out bag from a survival kit, a boating or aviation emergency kit, or a fixed-site disaster supplies kit. Mini Survival Kits. Marine corps survival kit. Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin. How to Make a Bug Out Bag. Make an Emergency "Get Home Bag" to Keep at Work. 10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25 by Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #104. It seems like every winter there are news stories of people getting stranded for weeks in bad weather while driving through the many remote areas of our country.
In fact, this past winter, our nation held its breath waiting for news of James Kim and his family who got lost traveling the snowy roads of Josephine County in Oregon, not far from where this magazine is published. While his wife and daughters, who stayed with their vehicle, were eventually found alive, he succumbed to the cold as he hiked through snow looking for help for his family. And there are also many cases of people trapped for days in their vehicles after skidding over a bridge embankment, even though they were only a few hundred feet from a busy highway.