On the post about Katrina, commenter Chris brought up a point worth devoting an entire post to: How to rendezvous in a crisis situation when members of the immediate family are separated.
Most suburban spouses are separated for a minimum of about 45 hours a week - nine hours per day for five workdays a week. Thrown in some errand-running, children’s lessons and other activities that take up even two or three hours on a weekend, and it easily climbs to about 50. Coordinate a rendezvous between two separated adults in a crisis situation is one thing, but when you add children to the mix, things can get complicated very quickly.
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If you keep Airborne around the house, or know someone who does, save the little tubes. They’re air- and water-tight when the cap is firmly affixed, and make great compact firestarter kits. Take 35-40 wooden strike-anywhere matches and stand them up in the bottom of the container. On top of that, put two cotton balls or a wad of dryer lint. Optionally, cut off a piece of the striker strip from the side of the matchbox and store it in the tube as well. Put the cap on firmly. Store it in your bug-out bag along with a small tube of petroleum jelly, and if you need to start a fire, spread a dab of the petroleum jelly on a cotton ball, tease out some of the cotton like a little bird’s nest, and you have instant tinder.
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