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If a fire started near where you live, and you were forced to evacuate, would you be ready to leave, or are you not prepared to evacuate?
Talk about it….
I try to get the brisket fresh from the store…. Unless it is vacuum packed, it doesn’t freeze well. So, I’m kinda prepared, but would really like 2 days notice; if you would.
No food worries. If things ever got really bad I could hunt the wild cows that live on the hills near me.
We are ready to go. After the Paradise inferno, I greatly beefed up all of our evacuation supplies and have them staged in the ground floor guest room. Everything we need for humans and dogs, including propane fueled camp cooking equipment/camp stove, bucket of 84 emergency meals, dog food and bowls, first aid, water, dry shampoo, sanitizer, blankets for everyone, etc. List of what else to grab written in bold red sharpie. Sure hope to never have to use the items.
I don’t see how I could be forced to leave. Mandatory evacuations have no force of law. I would stay, and survive. To hell with the brisket.
Ribs?
Nope. I’m pretty sure my charred remains will be a tasty side-dish for the coming zombie hordes in this endless year of horrors.
I live in between the North Complex fire and the Loyalton fire. I have a bag packed at all times. Bags also packed for all pets. We are ready to leave immediately. Bags stay packed from August 1 till snow.
We have of course signed up for Code Red with our county and although we have not had to evacuate we have gotten several alerts. The sound the alert makes on your cellphone would wake the dead. It’s terrifying frankly.
Much good luck to you.
Not yet. Need to get some wood for the winter and its still a little warm out.
Somewhere else? Sure. My house…hardly anyone is ready for that. Lots of photos and papers would simply vanish. A safe will offer some protection here in the suburbs, but not in places where these wildfires are striking.
Spouse, pet, wallet, firearms: that’s all one really needs to bug out. Once spouse and pet are safe, I plan to sneak back and hunt looters.
No, not really. But I’m as ready as I care to be. I do need another cat carrier. I have one, but it won’t hold 2 good sized cats.
As ready as one can be. Depending on where you live, you may have several minutes to load a vehicle and giddy up or you may not. The best way to be prepared for a fast moving fire is to have a Travel Trailer or Motorhome and a stash of essentials, important papers and keepsakes at another location in case you only have seconds to get out. Now you just need to grab your pets and keys and hit the road and hope it’s clear sailing to your safe spot. Another option is to live on a sailboat or in the desert.
Yes. Yes we are.
Important docs, cash, weapons, and ammunition are staged in a “go-crate”.
Securely buried on the property are several steel tubes containing .
12A where can I buy these steel tubes?
Don’t forget the medications that you take–it may take weeks to get RX’s refilled–keep them handy in one place, so that they can be picked up in a hurry.
Pretty much the same things as required for an earthquake so okay.
Both my cars are already packed with food water clothing papers meds and personal stuff. They stay that way till the rains
I have friends who lost homes in the last big Santa Rosa Fire, and have prepared as best we can following their advice. By the way, your insurance is likely inadequate. The mental and physical rebuilding process is lengthy. That’s why it was so disturbing to watch our Governor’s smoldering opportunistic climate change speech with clearly little regard for the people who are really suffering. All politics, no altruism.
And now they have arrested four mostly peaceful pro-climate change protesters (I call them arsonists). Of course we will be assured they played little part in the fires……..
everybody with a swimming pool should buy a garbage pump from harbor freight along with a few hoses and a fire nozzle. if everybody had that around here we could put a big dent on fires that start up. think about it peeps. check out the videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk2QhBy6EXM
Concur. I advised the same to my pal in Copperopolis, including a secondary irrigation system with control valves to spray his roof and yard areas as needed or warranted.
That is brilliant. Could imagine having some crazy water fights.
If central Contra Costa was ordered to evacuate then my wife and I would be among the few that could make it. Not because of the supplies that we have, because we have a motorcycle. Within an hour of the order all streets would become gridlocked.
Wondering if there is a way to push the city to help with cleaning up streets that are filled with flammable leaves, pine needles, etc?
Pine Hollow Rd specifically is covered with piles of Pine Needles which would just blow up if sparked.
If I have to evacuate, at this point I doubt I’m coming back.