So, you've made a SurvivalKit to keep you alive until the good guys come to rescue you. Well, now you're starting life over in a new place. These are some of the things you might want to bring along.

How To Make A Survival Kit

On my birthday in 2005, I read a Slashdot article discussing what things you might want to take with you if you had to evacuate your home. This was only a few months after Hurricane Katrina leveled southern Louisiana and Mississippi, so quite a few people had given this a lot of recent thought.

The article started off talking about which personal documents you should take copies of (driver licenses, marriage certificates, passports, etc.) - in other words, an electronic survival kit. However, the topic soon veered off into the kinds of things you need to physically stay alive. That made me realize that I've never made any such preparations, short of putting some bottled water in our tornado shelter. Below is a summary of the recommendations I came across.