Does anybody have an emergency contigency plan in place?

With all the natural disasters that are currently taking place I ask myself does anyone have an emergency contingency plan in place for your particular corner of the world?

For example all these terribly wildfires in California and people making mad exodus with nothing but the clothes on their backs.  The volcano eruptions in Hawaii, the floods in the eastern part of the country, tornadoes and the three devastating hurricanes that hit us last year.

The common thread I see is that no one seemed to be prepared.  After my neighbor's house burnt down on the 4th of July, I wondered what if anything apart from getting my mother out would I grab?  I am still asking myself that question and I have no answers.

When I was a kid I enjoyed reading Nancy Drew mystery novels and she always kept a change of clothes in the trunk of her car.  I told my myself that as soon as I had my own vehicle I would do the same but I kept a three-day change of clothes with me.

My friends and co-workers thought I was crazy but I told them that if my house burnt down at least I would have a change of clothes with me.  Even though to be honest I was a party girl and I worked long hours. My friends would call me at work and ask me to meet them here and there but I lived in the north part of town, worked in the Galleria area and my friends lived in the southern part of the county where all the action was. No problem I had a handy change of clothes with me and did not have to make the long trek home.

When Y2K was on the horizon, I like most Americans learned about bug out bags and had mine handy. I also had a fully stocked camping van (Terlita).  If it wasn't because our company canceled all vacations for December 1999 to prepare for Y2K, I would have spent it in Terlingua. Yet here I went and spent it in Pasadena, Texas where all the refineries are located and one of the first places the missiles from the old Russian Federation would have exterminated us.

Ok, think I got off course...back to the present.  I keep a packed bug out bag right by my bed but it mainly consists of clothes.  When Ciudad Acuña had a bad tornado a couple of years back I considered getting a safe deposit box at my bank to keep all our important documents and perhaps some pictures but I never followed through.  Perhaps I need to re-think that.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.