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survival kit 101

2006-03-21 - 12:23 p.m.

detail, purple snakeskin guess boots, caesar's forum, las vegas
© 2003 by Elaine Radford
When I evacuated for Katrina, I had Las Vegas purple snakeskin high-heeled knee boots but no regular clothes. Somehow they didn't get packed, and then we got evacuated away from home so long that I had to buy actual regular clothes that I could walk around wearing in the real world.

Anyway, I've got this issue of Outdoor Life, and they have a list of things you're supposed to have in your 72 hour evacuation kit:

  • 3 pairs of underwear
  • 3 pairs of socks
  • change of pants
  • 2 T-shirts
  • long-sleeved shirt
  • waterproof windbreaker
  • cap

Well, you see what's wrong with the list right away. You have to have an extra pair of jeans that makes your butt look good that have nothing to do all day but live in your evacuation pack. And a woman just hates to give up a nice-fitting pair of jeans. However, I now have finally made up a pack of clothes, and they're pretty much all in shades of blue, so they even kind of, sort of, match. Here it is:

  • yeah, yeah, the three sets of underwear and socks
  • the jeans zip in all the right places, including the boot, but they're from the 80s, so it's OK to retire them to the evacuation luggage where we hope to God they will never be needed again
  • 3 T-shirts in various shades of blue and/or blue stripes
  • long-sleeved blue flannel shirt
  • blue maybe sort of waterproofish windbreaker from the Fremont casino in Vegas that they gave me for something or other promotion
  • a blue baseball cap from the long-gone bankrupt Jubilee Casino with all the Jubilee Joe fake gold metal pins on it that I put to frighten the Blue Jays away from pecking on my head when they were nesting in the pine tree killed by Tropical Storm Bill and used to peck on my head -- so, no matter what the natural disaster you got going, there will be no rampaging Blue Jays pecking on my head
  • a blue bathing suit
  • blue flowered shorts that button with a flap in front to make them look like a really short skirt -- this for wearing over your bathing suit so you look halfway decent in the elevator
  • an old navy blue night dress -- I don't mean from the Old Navy, the store, I mean they're old and they're navy blue satin

I still don't quite see how a girl can feel prepared for every eventuality without at least one cocktail dress and high-heeled sandals in that list though.

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