Ready Go-Bag - Emergency Evacuation Kit

The Ready Go-Bag is made for one person to use when you must leave in an evacuation and, you have minutes, not hours. The READY Go-Bag is built to grab one bag and walk out the door for the next 72 hours. This isn't a woods-survival kit, it’s built for what happens in real life. You evacuate to a shelter, a relative's place, a hotel, or you ride out for hours on a jammed evacuation route. Everything in it serves that reality. Nothing in it is there to pad the count.

Built on one rule: every item earns its place. If it doesn't keep you fed, watered, charged, informed, patched up, or clean for three days away from home, it isn't in the pack.

Add power if you need it

We leave the phone power bank optional on purpose. If you already own one, don't pay twice. If you don't, add a Nitecore power bank at checkout and keep your phone alive for alerts and contact the whole way.

What we left out, on purpose

No survival knife, no fire-starter, no wilderness water filter, no tarp shelter. Those belong in a backcountry bag, not an evacuation kit. This bag is built for the emergency you'll actually face: leaving your home for three days. One grab, out the door, handled.

We've been there. Be ready.

What's inside, and why it's there

• The pack: A MOLLE backpack with room left over for a change of clothes. Comfortable to carry, tough enough to count on, and built to wear on your back, not drag, because this bag may have to travel on foot. The MOLLE also allows you to add pouches and gear as you need. Pro-Tip: insert a glow stick in the MOLLE straps and use it at night so you can find your bag if needed.
• Water: A Nalgene bottle with a nesting stainless steel cup, plus purification tablets. Refill anywhere and treat what you find. The steel cup means you can heat water without a stove if it comes to that.
• Food: 3 MRE meals. No cooking, no prep, no water needed. Plus, a cutlery set so any other food you grab works too.
• Information: An Eton NOAA radio so you get alerts and instructions when cell towers are jammed and the power's down. At a shelter or in a car, this is how you know what's happening.
• Power and light: A quality Princton-Tec headlamp with spare batteries for hands-free light, and three glow sticks for battery-free backup. A phone power bank can be added at checkout if you do not have one.
• Medical: A real first aid kit with genuine wound care, an emergency blanket, and combat-grade duct tape built in. Three needs, one pouch.
• Clean and comfortable: A travel hygiene kit, toothbrush and paste, wipes, hand sanitizer, deodorant, and TP. Three days on a cot in a crowded shelter is bearable or miserable depending on whether you packed this. Most go-bags skip it. We don't.
• Warmth: A fleece cap and glove liner. Compact light, and they cover the head and hands you lose the most heat from, because you never know where you wind up and being warm matters, even down south.
• Documents and protection: A small waterproof bag for IDs, insurance, policy numbers, and medications. A waterproof notebook for the things your dead phone can't give you: shelter addresses, family phone numbers, policy numbers. And two N95 masks for dust and airborne debris on the way out.