You ain’t waking up without water. (Water) You ain’t walking far without some blister fix. (first aid) And you ain’t gonna make it home if you done bleed out. (Tourniquet)
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Looks like I am weird but to me the question was what you should have in your vehicle and to me that should be first aid tools and blanket. Now if you’re going camping it would be different. Heck I guess I am old.
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To me is we all should carry legally and have an extra clip but if you need more than that you should run or hide witch ever is safer. You should always be using your common sense. Hopefully you will never have to use your weapon. Maybe I didn’t understand the question right. But the score should be on how you use your common sense you will have vehicle problems more than anything else and you can help anyone who needs help with the 3 things I said.
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@James14 You are spot on my friend! Common sense goes a long way. You wouldn’t believe the number of folks I have run across that have driven their car for years but have absolutely no idea how to use their jack , get to their spare or for that matter even know where they are. Some people’s children 
Cheers,
Craig6
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I’d thought I joined this story when it first popped up but maybe I needed more time.
Back when I was fleet of foot and car,mobile with a 50 lb pack and an eye toward good mule flesh, had my ketadyne, lots of 1/10th ounces, junk silver. I imagined life in one of the mid Oregon public forests where the burn and fall out would be less likely to darken the sky. At least it would be a start, depending on how far down into Nuclear winter the fools with buttons and too much stupidity sent the world.
When I moved my parents, brother, and the Lady who let me continue working while caring for all the above to the East; the matter became could we keep enough medications to allow everyone to keep going for a month while the society had time to recover from a natural disaster or short term breakdown in civility. Water, food, propane, gasoline, generator; all handled and able to keep us going until it was obvious some of us wouldn’t be making it if things went longer.
Then, well then my back gave out when I picked up my Mum after she ended up on the floor, limp as a sack of beans. Most of the questions stayed covered about as before, but now I wasn’t any help for 3, 4 years. A bit better now but anyway. Parents and brother passed and Milady and I had a couple of years but things medical for her went south pretty quickly… we enjoyed the time but it was steadily less she could do and I did what I could. We always had our arsenal to resolve any civil issues we couldn’t out live comfortably. (If our medications didn’t run out first - then it was until we just couldn’t take it anymore…)
So, now, my bug out is still my home, I am the caregiver for three cats, and seriously, the question begs asking: Do I seek to liquidate, consolidate, and move to a better location in the Appalachian? or just see what comes of good intentions, being a good neighbor here, and making a difference to the people around me. So, nice thing is, as long as I have internet I have something more to give than just what my body can do.
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My bug out backpacks are hanging in my closet been prepared since 2k, I have one small one for first aid and meds, and a large hydration back pack. I update all of them often. All I have to do open my closet and put them one, don’t forget tent and be f top !
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Food for 72 hours.
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7 days of food plus a radiation alert monitor, I live in Arizona and there are pitchblende aeras.
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Clean underwear, clean socks and toothbrush.
I’m not joking 
No matter the reason to “bug out” I want clean underwear !
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We have multiple bags. My wife and I have our own individual bags; the dogs have their own bag; another bag is a comprehensive medical kit; then there’s the range bag with the gun stuff; there’s also the food, water, and fire bag; and it’s all mix and match depending on whether or not we bug out or shelter in place. All the bags are in the closet by the garage door. I’m a 71 year old paraplegic so bugging out is not my preferred response to a SHTF scenario, but we can if we must.
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WildRose stated “Not to be gory but if it all hits the fan with those two items I can get anything else I need.”
I have been reading how everyone will hop in the vehicle and drive some place, but if we are talking about total breakdown, then I think most of us will not get far. I think of a 3 hour drive to a cabin in Wisconsin and there will be traffic jams, and road blocks with a bunch of WildRoses stopping cars to see what is for sale. I am not sure many of us would actually get too far.
I honestly don’t think I would be able to make it to our family cabin so would just have to hunker down in the suburbs. I think I would have to work with the immediate neighbors to form a defensive fort and consolidate resources. That is where the three items Food, Water, and Ammo comes in handy.
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And there you go… that’s full prep. 
Depends on how early you leave… if you figure it out before people panic, and stay off the highway, you may do just fine.
YEPPERS. We’re not buggin’ out, we already ARE out. And we live in a bunker, so there’s that. My task is just to get home. And yes, you can put enough gas in one fill-up of my truck to get me that 800 miles.
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How about an option for “I don’t have a bug out bag but want one” ?
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And can I just saw HOLY COW there are a lot of new members on this thread!!
HOWDY Y’ALL!!
Glad you’re here. 
I live in my SHTF place, the task is to get home.
I was in planning meetings for an Earthquake on the New Madrid fault. They told us that there would not be bridge left passable in AR, MO, Western TN. Consider that last big earthquake on that fault broke out windows in Pittsburg, PA and rang the church bells in Washington DC. Natural Gas to the north east part of the US starting at the fault though Maine would be gone.
Think about how fast something can happen.
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yep, @Mr.Spock one of my tasks is travel planning - because the bridges I’d ordinarily use (near St. Louis, and in other places between MO and MI) are very likely not going to be an option if the New Madrid wakes up. Or safe options should I have to hoof it cross country.
I have more homework to do… it’s on my list.
I’d be interested in what you learned in planning meetings for the New Madrid… very curious indeed!
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All the natural gas pipe lines to the northeast run directly over the center of the fault line, as do the majority of the east to west communication lines. The last major quake rerouted the Mississippi river. unlike CA where the fault is on bed rock, the ground at the Madrid is more the consistence of jello. This will cause ground waves like a Tsunami.
I used to live just south of Little Rock and the county had an pressurized under ground control center. That is because the military stores its left over chemical weapons from WWII there. The military wanted to destroy them but the environmentalist threw a tantrum and stopped it. They can not move them because they are in steel containers that are now so old they would rupture if moved. The fact is they are leaking, you can not even drive in the area where they are stored without a hazmat suit. A quake at the Midrid would rupture all the containers and the wind would carry the gas.
There is a lot of data on what would happen on the east side of the fault from reports in papers and people. There is little data on the west side because at the time of the fault the few people in the area could read or write but it should be the same as the east side.
Last I checked there were about 200 small quakes at the fault each year. That is a good thing as it lets off pressure.
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Every thing you have in your BOB is (most) important for its own reason. 3 days of food with several ways to hunt and fish.
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Welcome to the group @BRUCE26
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Same as Alex, I am more than good enough with a knife, but I have to have clean water. Fishing line or a field expedient fish trap net, use contents of fish stomach to catch other fish.
I know I won’t make it for terribly long in a pure SHTF situation, prescriptions run out , I’m going to die it’s just a matter of how long, but hope is to make it far enough to link up with friendlies, who will care for wife and daughter in exchange for my prep and my “let’s call it pro active protection gear”
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