When the power's out and the shelves are empty, you ride it out at home with what you already have on hand. This is what you should have on hand. One duffle, packed with the gear, easy to get to, that actually carries a household through a multi-day emergency. No 300-piece band-aid kits, no gimmicks that don't work in a real storm. Just real quality gear we've used and shipped to disaster zones for decades, packed and ready to grab.
Built on one rule: every item earns its place. If it doesn't keep you watered, fed, warm, lit, informed, or protected, it isn't in the bag.
Add power if you need it
The kit includes your Eton NOAA radio. We leave a phone power bank optional on purpose. If you already own one, don't pay for a second. If you don't, add a Nitecore power bank at checkout and keep your phone alive for alerts and contact through the whole event.
What we left out, on purpose
No fishing kits, no tactical pens, no filler to pad the piece count. This is a shelter-in-place kit for a real household in a real emergency, hurricane, blackout, ice storm, whatever your region brings. One purchase, stored in a closet, ready the day you need it.
We've been there. Be ready.
What's Inside, and Why It's There
- Water: A 65-gallon Aquapod bathtub bladder lets you store clean water the minute a storm is named, plus purification tablets to treat what you've got. Most kits ignore water storage. It's the first thing you run out of.
- Food: 12 MRE meals. No cooking, no water needed, years of shelf life. A P-51 opener so any canned food in the house is on the table too.
- Information: An Eton NOAA emergency radio so you know what's coming when the grid and the cell towers go down. Eton is the name agencies and the American Red Cross trust, and it's the item that tells you whether to stay or go.
- Lighting: One large lantern plus three compact lanterns to cover the whole house, and a 10-pack of glow sticks for battery-free backup light and marking the way around the house.
- Warmth: Two wool blankets that keep working even when things get damp.
- Medical: A real first aid kit with genuine wound care, for the cuts and injuries that turn serious when help is hours out.
- Protection: Two pair of D3-A military leather gloves, goggles for wind and blowing dust if you have to go outside, and four N95 masks for dust and airborne debris for after.
- Documents and essentials: Two waterproof Sealline bags (one medium, one small Mac sack) to keep IDs, insurance and policy numbers, medications, and a dry change of clothes protected. A 4x6 waterproof notebook for the things your dead phone can't give you: shelter addresses, family phone numbers, policy numbers.
- Just In Case: 100 feet of 550 paracord to tie things off during or before the storm, a 50-foot roll of 100 mile hour military duct tape, and waterproof storm matches that light when everything's wet.
- Carry: Packed in a new heavy-duty duffle with shoulder and backpack straps, built to hold up, so if shelter-in-place turns into evacuate, you grab one bag and go.
Contents
- 65-gallon Aquapod bathtub water bladder
- Water purification tablets
- 12 x MRE meals average 1200 calories each
- P-51 can opener
- Eton NOAA emergency radio
- 1 large lantern + 3 compact lanterns
- 10 x glow sticks
- 2 x wool blankets
- First aid kit with real wound care
- 2 pair D3-A military leather gloves
- Safety goggles (wind and dust)
- 4 x N95 masks
- 2 x waterproof Sealline bags (1 medium, 1 small Mac sack)
- 4x6 waterproof notebook
- 100 ft 550 paracord
- 50 ft duct tape roll
- Waterproof storm matches
- New heavy-duty duffle with shoulder/backpack straps
