I've only ever been ready to evacuate myself once in my life, it was when I was living at Mt Victoria, which is on the Blue Mountains in NSW Australia - near where all the fires happen. There were huge fires and we were told to prepare to evacuate if necessary, so I put the things that were important in my car as that was the only way for me (and every one else) to leave - it was so bad my husband at the time, was stopped by the police every evening for about four days, as only residents to Mt Vic were able to go through, the next town along you weren't able to get to. So I had the computer, photos and a few treasures stuffed toys in the car, didn't think about clothes or things like that. Luckily I didn't have to evacuate. The neighbours had a fire box wood stove, so every summer they cleaned it out and put their photos and documents in the fire box - their rational, keeps the fire in, so will keep the fire out if the house is burnt down! They owned we only rented. That was the year the Central Coast, were my brother and parents were living, was cut off from Sydney, my mum and dad got home, but my brother had a 2 day odyssey of sleeping in a cinema, and a boat ride that was diverted several times as where they were going to drop people off was subsequently cut off. I use to live when I was a child near other mountains, in Victoria, and when ever there were local fires, we had to stay at school until someone picked us up - live on a hill so not prob with floods - Australia as Dorothea McKella said I love a sunburnt country a land of sweeping plains of rugged mountain ranges her drought and flooding plans (as well as bush fires - the American wild fires sounds so much cooler thou)
I was ready to evacuate my house a few years ago when a field fire got out of control and was about three houses away from mine. I grabbed the laptop, the hd from the PC (I couldn't leave behind my stories!), dog stuff (water bowl, food, towels), my passport, wallet and phone. That was it. This wasn't a natural disaster so I wouldn't be searching for food or anything, but there was that horrible thought that I could lose everything. Why can't I remember that feeling and do something about it now?
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