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Prepare a Go Bag to Make a Quicker Exit - Consumer Reports
Here's how to be ready for when disaster strikes
The first sign something was wrong was the “snow” Ryan Cross and his family saw outside their San Diego home in October 2003. They soon realized it was ash from an approaching wildfire. “We just grabbed stuff like computers and my mom’s jewelry and left,” he remembers. “We had to drive on the wrong side of the road because the other side was covered in flames.”
The Cross family was lucky: Their house was one of the few in the area that was spared. Cross, 38, still lives in the San Diego area with his wife and 7- and 9-year-old daughters. But now he’s prepared: He has a “go bag” by the front door that includes cash in small bills, battery-operated video games for the girls, expired passports for ID, contact numbers, space blankets, and a thumb drive that has copies of insurance policies and other financial documents in case a secure web connection can’t be found.
Here's how to be ready for when disaster strikes
The first sign something was wrong was the “snow” Ryan Cross and his family saw outside their San Diego home in October 2003. They soon realized it was ash from an approaching wildfire. “We just grabbed stuff like computers and my mom’s jewelry and left,” he remembers. “We had to drive on the wrong side of the road because the other side was covered in flames.”
The Cross family was lucky: Their house was one of the few in the area that was spared. Cross, 38, still lives in the San Diego area with his wife and 7- and 9-year-old daughters. But now he’s prepared: He has a “go bag” by the front door that includes cash in small bills, battery-operated video games for the girls, expired passports for ID, contact numbers, space blankets, and a thumb drive that has copies of insurance policies and other financial documents in case a secure web connection can’t be found.