Disaster Scenario: If a Katrina like situation occurred in your town...

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deerhunterp

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What knives or tools would you want on your side? These needs to be within reason... you would have a hard time carrying 12 machetes and a mini gun on you. This may sound stupid, but the things that people think are worthy of being at their side during a disaster peak my interest. It doesn't have to be a hurricane; it can be any situation that cuts and town off from the rest of the country.
 
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For a folder i think i would take something along the lines of a Spyderco Spyderhawk in H1 SE, it would be good for cutting rope and lines that might be in your way, its water proof, and it would be a pretty nice defensive folder...im not sure what else, what ever is on hand would have to work...
 
Colt Model 80 Commander in the shoulder holster, Ruger SP101 on my hip with the Leatherman Wave and my Busse Fusion Battle Mistress with a couple Surefires added somewhere too.
 
I have enough supplies to hold up in my house.

I'm sure water, food, and guns would be the main things I'd worried about.
 
12 inch Tram, Ruger 45 ACP, a darn good first aid kit. The less weight, the better.
 
Since Katrina did happen in my town, I'll just go ahead and tell you what I will make SURE I have on hand next time.

1-5: Chainsaw, fuel, sharpening file, extra plug, bar oil etc
6: Good locking folder 3"-4" blade
7: Case Stockman
8: Vic Swisstool
9: A very good axe
10: small bow saw
11: As many very long lasting little flashlights as I can haul.
12: two teenage boys who are willing to do what I say
13: 22 pistol for killing snakes
14: Some kind of SD pistol, which I probably wouldn't carry around on my person, since I didn't last time.

Most of these things are with me most of the time, so I would concentrate on good little long lasting flashlights + batteries and making sure the chainsaw is tuned up and ready.

I would say I would make sure of having food and water on hand, but I live down the street from an Assembly of God Church, and these people have a direct line to the big man upstairs because the day after Katrina for 2 weeks straight there was a steady flow of food water and clothing coming in to that church, and I helped them unload a great deal of it and loaned them all my ice chests - in turn they supplied me with plenty water and MRE's which they had in unbelievable abundance.

I know none of this sounds very desperate or swashbuckling, but in real life it wasn't. I spent 6 months making big trees into firewood basically. the first month of it without electricity. It was a hell of a lot of work. I did meet a lot of nice people from various utility companies around the country.

To tell you the truth, ten minutes ago I cut off a chunk of tree trunk from a tree that Katrina felled and threw it in the burn barrel out by my dog pen to keep them warm tonight.
 
High winds have a way of knocking trees down all over neighborhoods, so:

A chainsaw

chainsaw chaps

spare chains

hearing pro/brain bucket

A Gransfors Bruks axe

A jetboil stove for the inevitable tea-break

A shortwave radio for news

A dolly to move wood around.
 
I'd take my most expensive knives, because I'm sure they wouldn't be there if I got back.
 
Like Zip, I was also in Katrina. I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Chainsaw, axe, water, food, gas, and a shotgun were some of the main things I remember being really necessary. We had a creek nearby and we boiled creek water over a fire to drink. Also, we had chickens to eat, as well as canned vegetables to eat. No electricity for four weeks, no water for a week. As far as knives, we made it with a Victorinox farmer and a Case trapper.
 
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