Mother Nature's wrath

I wish there was a capsule that sucks everything in your house in times of calamity or when you had to evacuate your home. It should also obey voice command with a solar battery that charges even on rainy days! But well, I guess when I panic, I just grab the nearest thing to me. Hopefully it's my computer, and cellphone. And well, 2 underwears?

hi there pat! ^^ well, if that happens but hopefully it won't, i'd take the photos and the important documents. that's what my mother taught me because everything else can be replaced. photos are so significant and the moments captured in these can never happen again so it is important to keep these. the same goes with documents because everything in this world has to be legal and all i just can't imagine being documentless.

I don't know what I'd take. I guess the important papers. We don't really have any family heirlooms - most of those are still at our parents' and grandparents'. And our important photos are on cds in my parents' safe.

I will save important papers and documents like titles, files and of course my laptop and PC. I will try to save more but given a limited time, I will prioritize the above. cheers.

Hey pat! That is a very good question! I have too much of my important stuff in too many different places right now and I really should be more organized! I think that when I start changing my things over for Winter I will make sure that I put all things that are important in one particular bag just in case! I really don't know what I would take in the event of a disaster besides my cats and this bag that I am intending to get packed! There are too many things that I would want to take with me and I know that I can't possibly grab everything so I just don't really know. I have to give it some serious thought now and I intend to! There isn't any one thing in particular like you have picked, there are too many and we know that in the event of a natural disaster there is no time to chose!

i do have a file of all our family documents (family records, birth cert., contracts, etc) in one suitcase. if anything happens, i do made some orientation on all family members that its the first piece of household item that they should carry out away from home. and the best thing is that its always accessible to all family members and not hidden on the closet or lock in the cabinet. of course the suitcase itself is lock.

well I have a safty box with all important papers an such an I would grab grannys picture seeing there are not many pictures of her an put her in the box as I am running out the door

i'd take important documents and photo's regardless off what we've got to pack quick for.

i think i will just bring things that i will want to have forever no matter if the item does not have any monetary value. anything that is important to me. i don't know yet what that be though. maybe pictures, but i don't have much pictures anyways, so that won't be a problem carrying those few pictures i have. i can just leave other pictures of mine which are not that memorable to me.

In this case I would be practical. I shall try to save myself and my family members. My first task would be to search a safe place.

I don't know..I think maybe sentimental. I have very few pictures of my grandparents and I have some jewelry that my grandmother left me. I think I would go for that after the kids and pets.

I think we should all have a list of things we would take in case of evacuations...and post it on the refrigerator, so you won't have to think at that instant. You never know when a fire will take place in your home, never mind Mother Nature, I would first grab a huge canvas bag and stick the following things in them, an extra set of clothing and shoes, my makeup, my purse,family pictures, address book, Clothes for my son, and his most valuable items, and on the way out, I would grab my cat, and some cat food. Hopefully I will have time to grab all of it, but it would probably be best to prepare the bag beforehand, and keep it in place that we can grab fast. Unfortunately we are never prepared.

I admire your priorities in the event of a calamity.I would also take my family and pets.I would definitely warn my good friends in town about the calamity.But i think i would definitely grab a bit of money and a check book.

Hello my friend I would grab the laptop, the internet will be on my mind and how else will I get there if I leave the laptop behind, I just hope nothing like this happens because in a reality when things are crazy and you don't have time to think its hard to know what you will grab. Thank you.

Hi, Pat! I think I'd take my file of important papers. Everything else can be replaced.

We don't have a safety deposit box, so I would grab my folding file with all my important papers (insurance, birth certs, etc.) in it, which I keep handy in my office.........oh and my purse! LOL Couldn't go a day away from home without my purse! My whole life in in there!

All living things first of course, after that I would grab my laptop and my photo albums, they are things that cannot ever be replaced. I have a lot of photos on my laptop and my albums have pictures from the pre-digital cameras era. If I had time to take nothing else, that will be it because aside from my daughter, husband and my animals photos are the only precious things I would hate to lose, everything else is just stuff. Oh, maybe my birth certificate folder if I had time.

If its happen, I don't think we even have a time to think...... But, if we have then family is my priority and off course important document follow on and other important thing is our wallet....money is needed wherever you are and whatever your conditions are. BR.b

If the disaster come and we have time to prepare ourselves to evacuate, I'll take important documents that irreplaceable. Even if they can be replace, they'll take time and I might need to use it immediately. If it's not, like tsunami or whatever, I'll just grab whatever I can. I probably freak out and don't have time for anything anyway. Just grab my family and run.

Ok after family and pets it would have to be a practical thing and that would be my pocketbook since it has everything but the kitchen sink in it.