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Gothamist was at Gracious Home the other weekend and we saw a pre-made Go Bag. Yes, an orange backpack filled with packs of water, flashlight, poncho (we think), etc., so in case of an emergency event, you'll be ready to go. It retailed for somewhere around $30, and we must admit, we were tempted for a few moments. Then we realized that we could make our own! Manhattan User's Guide thoughtfully listed what you need in your Go Bag recently, and the city has been touting Go Bags on one of the Office of Emergency Management pages for a while. But if you're still at a loss, or have a jones being prepared for the possibly unpreparable, the OEM is having Ready NY Nights with the Red Cross, with breakout session where you can learn how to develop a disaster plan, how to assemble your Go Bag, and what you can do to get involved. There will be an "interactive" presentation in each of the five boroughs, starting with a session tonight in Manhattan at Hunter College; there will also be a Blood Mobile so you can really interact.
The City has launched their Ready New York campaign last year. And pre-made Go Bags have been around for a while.
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Come the 15th, I will be able to buy the only thing I need for my Go-Bag, a nice big AK. YeHaw
Go bags are for pussies!
go bags are nice and all, but where exactly are several million people going to go in case of an emergency or whatever?
the entire concept is ridiculous - though I sort of have a grudging admiration for anyone who can make money off it.
Seeing as how my Go Bag would be kept at home and in recent years when the poo has gone down in NYC I've been at work, I'm not entirely certain what a Go Bag would really do for anyone. Unless you're a shut in. If I have to "Go" at an instant then theoretically I'm not going to have time to cross over the Brooklyn Bridge and all the way home in order to pick up my "Bag". This is the 21st Century's version of bomb shelters and anyone who makes money from the idea is a parasite.
I meant grudging admiration in the I-sorta-like-PT-Barnum sense.
Add an assault rifle to the list. Those will be easy to get next week, thanks to Bushy.
Right - I wonder if I need a Go Bag at work, as well as one on me at all times. Plus one buried at the meeting place for whenever there's an emergency.
Per the ad, I'd rather have four bottles of wine than four bottles of water if shit goes down. Happily, I have about 55 bottles of wine at home, so I should be good there.
I found it extremely appropriate that Tom Ridge was promoting these bags in a speech filmed in front of a group of Boy Scouts. The whole idea is charmingly naive, earnest, and ultimately irrelevant.
i keep a mini go pack in my back pack. a friend got it for me at a red cross demo last year. it was free (paid for by td waterhouse, according to the label) and aboutthe size of a taller, skinnier can of coke. it's got a dust mask , water pouch , whistle and lightstick. I have it mainly incase there is ever a smoke condition in the subway--terrorist induced or not. i got asthma and i jsut think it would be easier to breath through a wet dust mask if the car or sttion fills with smoke. and the light stick will be helpful when i try to escape through the tunnel since the exits will be crammed with people. i love new york city!
"it's got a dust mask , water pouch , whistle and lightstick."
sounds like youre more prepared for a night of raving in the desert at burning man than for any "emergency".
As transplanted New Yorkers (we're 205 miles from the 59th Street Bridge) with a lot of New York and metro area friends, and a multi-line phone system, we've reminded our friends to use our phone line as an emergency contact conduit...
something bad happens, call us, and we'll relay your message to your family and friends when they call.
It doesn't hurt to know we can put up our friends in a pinch, too.