[BC] Odd Toolkits.......

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I ALWAYS CARRY Potassium Iodine tabulates.  We have 100 tabulates in  
each car (4), my wife's office, my office, and 200 in our home.  I  
have another 100 in my computer bag, and in my flying bag, as flying  
is VERY common for me.

They protect you from radiation poisoning.  Google it.

I also carry a radiation detector, as does my family.  Check out  
http://www.ki4u.com/.

I have KI tabulates at home, in every home, and in our work offices.   
I have them in my computer bag and in my common luggage.  I just  
cannot see taking them and not giving them to those around me/us.   
They are very inexpensive, and, while I don't buy them, non medical  
ones are even MUCH less.

In the Spring, Summer and Fall in the DC area, I carry a few bottles  
of water, a flash light and my cell phone.  I can call a cab, or my  
wife.

In MY car, I also carry flares, candles,  another flash light, and  
some sort of cover, usually some blankets (mostly for providing first  
aid) and a fairly extensive first aid kit, FAR MORE than most people  
carry, but less than an ambulance.

In the winter, I carry also some sort of high energy food, warm  
clothes, MUCH more water, extra fuel, heat pads (whatever they are  
called), at least one cell phone, extra batteries, a flashlight on my  
body, a flashlight in my vehicle, a strobe, and flares.

I am generally never more than 300 yards from my vehicle.  When I am,  
I change my plan.

I used to carry Amateur Radio gear, but hams have been falling down  
on the job for at least a decade.  I will sometimes carry that stuff,  
but frankly, it no longer seems to be very reliable.  Even when you  
can make a repeater, there is no one to talk to who has a clue.

Since Cellular has become very reliable (normally) phone patches have  
been removed from repeaters.

If my county is at higher alert, I carry the stuff they give me,  
which can include all sorts of stuff, very good stuff -- a sat phone,  
more first aid stuff...

OH, and if I am normally waling around, my .357 revolver, but if we  
are at any higher alert, or if I am going rural, a 12 gauge pump and  
a .223 semi auto carbine.

--chip

On Mar 8, 2009, at 1:20 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 2
> From: "Dave Dunsmoor" <mrfixit at min.midco.net>
>
>     I'm going to work with a backpack, snowshoes, campstove and  
> survival
> blankets this morning. What kind of "odd toolkits" do some of the  
> rest of
> you carry?
>
> Dave Dunsmoor