Comments on: What Would You Save?

By: Jo Beaufoix

Jo Beaufoix — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:28:24 +0000

I’d save pretty much the same as you I think. And Misses E and M’s baby boxes.

By: Sandy (Momisodes)

Sandy (Momisodes) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:21:12 +0000

My list would look nearly identical to yours. Minus the Mah jong set ( I don't own one). When living in south Florida, we made a list just about every hurricane season. It's always amazing to see how much isn't that important in critical situations. Sandy (Momisodes)'s last blog post..Weekly Winners

By: Tara R.

Tara R. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:07:17 +0000

I do have a sort of mental list... being that I've actually done this on a few occasions. I take family jewelry, important papers, old photos that aren't on disk, my pets, are the most critical non-human treasures. If there is room, I also pack a few books that mean a lot of me. Tara R.'s last blog post..Where your rights end…

By: Becs

Becs — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:23:04 +0000

I waited for Andrew to come knocking on my front door. Then as now, the packing list is: old briefcase full of important papers and 11 cats into one Camry, booking out of town as fast as I could do and I-95 be damned. Becs's last blog post..Tales of the Tub

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:41:24 +0000

Well, my last evacuation was for Katrina. And I took some old standards plus learned a few things along the way. My current list would be:
-Cats
-a litter box in a garbage bag with a little bit of litter in it for the inevitably long car trip
-vaccination papers
-any and all insurance papers
-my notarized medical power of attorney for my girlfriend
-computers
-laptop
-any and all important CDs with my research, papers, photos, and stuff
-Gas cans filled with gas and tied to the roof of the car for when you hit the areas with gas shortage
-some vague kind of weapon for when you stop and feel unsafe because you have gas cans on your car in an area with no gas and desperate people
-school books that are expensive and irritating to replace
-a few books to read either on the trip or when we get somewhere because I will drive myself crazy with worry unless I have a distraction
-a written list or some kind of backup for all my phone numbers in case my phone dies
-more underwear than I could ever anticipate needing
I suppose this is all hypothetical now, since the move to Austin. But we still know what we would do if the need arose.

Sharon’s last blog post..Hork if you’re tired

By: Daisy Duke

Daisy Duke — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:08:56 +0000

I know I once admitted to mostly jeans, purses & undies during Ivan, but the truth of the matter my list today looks much like yours. Photos, some books (signed first edition of Jeff Shaara's, Gods & Generals & John Jakes, Savannah) my nice jewelry. Probably a nice set of sheets because they are small and something that would really bring me a bit of sunshine if I was on an air mattress or sofa bed at a friend's house for an extended period. My scrapbook from high school, and my personal cookbook. I'd cry if I lost my artwork (again, nothing particularly expensive, but all hand-picked & much loved) or my antique chest that my Mom bought me in England when I was 3- but that isn't fitting in any car, no matter how big. (I too left a car during hurricanes parked in a parking garage on the top floor in hopes that maybe what was in it would be salvageable.) Daisy Duke's last blog post..A Task From God (An Email)

By: Sarabeth

Sarabeth — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:01:27 +0000

Yeah, I’ll write it on my blog.

http://nothpnowmommy.blogspot.com

Sarabeth’s last blog post..I’m assuming my creativity relies on stability

By: YatPundit

YatPundit — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:37:28 +0000

http://www.yatpundit.com/2008/09/evacuation-meme.html

By: stacey

stacey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:20:14 +0000

This time I was a bit more prepared. For Katrina I had like an hour or less to pack and leave. I had more things for the cat than I did for me. This time I had a few more things, like the book my sister had made me of my niece. Every printed photo of my niece. More books. A lot more clothes. A pillow, a blanket. It is weird because you don't think you will really be heartbroken, but then you are. I had things in the basement from college and HS, things I hadn't looked at since moving, over a year and it was all of a sudden gone. I still miss that stuff. stacey's last blog post..Me Likee

By: Ed (zoesdad)

Ed (zoesdad) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:51:40 +0000

Kids. Nothing else really matters. No hurricanes in Ohio (yet) but three years ago we had a house fire in the middle of the night. I got the kids out. As I'm sitting there watching the firemen work--I realized that there was clean laundry in the basement. (Fire was in the attic.) So I went back in for the laundry. We were fortunate in that it was a fairly small fire and quickly contained but my wife has never let me live down the fact that of all the things I could have run back into a burning house to retrieve, I went after laundry! Ed (zoesdad)'s last blog post..Holy Guacamole!