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

I'd take my Leatherman Blast + tooladapter and BitKit. That is one rugged tool and would be helpful in manyway. That is on the belt.
A good, durable, water proof and light backbag. (Fjällräven Forester Chairpack+Big side pockets would be ideal but darn expensive or cheaper Fjällräven Vintage series)
A small neck knife, probably my Morris File Necker. Good smaller back up blade. Is light and would ride easily beneath clothes.
A medium utility knife, like my puukko with sharpening stone. I'd carry this on belt. Best alla round knife I have is my puukko.
A big utility knife, like USMC Ka-Bar Becker BK7 on back bag
Folders: Kershaw JYDII CB into backback and Spyderco Caly 3 into small pocket. Vic Soldier / Farmer would be handy and light
Fire maker
zippo
storm matches in water proof case
A good compass
A wire saw
My Fenix P1D and P3DQ5 with Itp A3 EOS ugpgraded 3AAA flashlight and UnderWater Kinetic 2AAA flash light. All are small, light and sock proof. UK is also water proof
A good, utility axe, easy to carry and enough small to be around without being cumberstone. Some Fiskar's utlity axes are pretty good or Roselli's camp axe.
2 Rolls of iron wire
Duct tape
Water purification pills
A rope of somekind, paracord could be handy.
Good boots
2 carbage bags empty and folded into bag back.
Fishing line, some hooks and such in small water proof and floating package
2 water canteens

I have all those ready (except Fjällräven backbag and axes). My first goal would be: Get a gun somewhere. Shotgun and hunting rifle would be good. Next object would be getting a vehicle and Satellite phone as Cell phones would be useless due most service stations around here would be be gone and rest working would collapse due flooding of 911's

And make my way to my friends houses. You don't bail out your friends and more the merrier and safer.
 
As far as knives go, my SHTF fixed blades are a Busse SAR4LE and SAR8LE. If it came down to bugging out I guess I would grab the smaller one on the way out the door.

I had not planned on bugging out however. I have a .22LR pistol and .22LR rifle, a shotgun and an M-14 and quite a little store of ammo. I've got about 3-months of Mountain House food in the #10 cans and water. My house is on top of a rocky butte in the desert just north of LA (north slope of the San Gabriel Mts) and is mostly made of rock. I would probably try to stay put.

I've stocked up for years because of earthquakes (the San Andreas fault is visible from my deck). Those preparations end up being good for other calamaties besides earthquakes I guess.

If the world had a disaster that put us back 100 years or something I would definetely become the town blade sharpener (and probably barber too given my collection of razors and brushes etc). Lots of files, stones and strops around here. Gotta have a vocation in the "new world order" lol.
 
contact capable friends & gather at most defensible structure. scoped rifles would keep looters from getting close enough to burn or damage your position. in the open ,no matter how well you are prepared you are vulnerable. these days you have plenty of warning to prepare. 6 individuals with cool heads & some tenenasity can divert a mob.if you have food & h2o & decent protection from elements you are 90% there.i told family yrs. back if necessary to leave no vehicles, no roads, move at nite. i'm packed & rotate batteries & peanut butter yearly.water purification is a must if its an extended situation. katrina is recent enough that younger people realize you ca'nt depend on authorities to protect you. orleans mayor disarmed innocent people & left them open to whatever, how stupid is that.
 
Boat, is my first thought.

As for knives, I'd carry my kukri and a smaller blade. Maybe the RAT Izula since it doesn't take a lot of space. I'd probably take the smallest axe I have too.
Survival bag (way too much to write down)
Extra canned food, water, clothes.
HID search spotlight, some small flashlights.

That's all I can think of right now.
 
I'd stay with my house. We are provisioned enough to last a good while. I'd keep handy a carbine, probably an AR and a couple of Glocks. Maybe my Mossberg 500 too and some assortment of knives probably Scrapyard, Cold Steel etc (oh and something large for the Zombies) : ) . Flashlights, battery operated radios and some wood for fires. Water? No problem, got a pool.
 
SIG 220R 45
Benelli M1 Entry
Ruger 10/22 with a couple thousand rounds
benchmade Nimravus 140 and Benchmade 710
machete
Axe
Shovel
Flashlights
First Responder First Aid Kit
Cell phone
 
I live in Lafayette, LA dealt with the far east side of Katrina, weeks later the far west side of Rita, last year either Ike or Gustauv don't remember which and years back in 02 Lilli. Can tell you this what the two other guys from the Gulf Coast posted ditto. Knives weren't really what was needed. Here is what we used here.

CASH, because the main hub for all credit card approval was in New Orleans and was under water for weeks, so all the businesses here only accepted CASH because cards be they credit, debit or whatever were not working.
Pistols for concealed carry
ICE, ICE, ICE, and Ice chest for food storage so it doesnt' all spoil
Your meds, because all of the pharmacist get overrun and run out of medicine because they have to fill the scripts of the evacuees, trying to get medicine for about 2 weeks after katrina was an exercise in futility.
Generators
Gasoline
Chain Saws and all things chain saw, extra blades, bar lube, etc.
Bow Saws, hot saws or pole saws, rope lots of rope,
4 wheeler to drag trees out of the way
Pick up truck and trailers
Lots of flash lights and batteries, batteries, batteries, batteries, and throw in a good quality multi tool like a leatherman not a cheap Chinese knock off.

This is when having quality equipment counts because if something breaks you can' go run and buy another one, order one or whatever, plus everyone is looking for parts and accessories like extra chain saw blades and for a while no place in Lafayette excepted anything but cash for reasons stated above.

Like others said we basically cleared trees and roadways so traffic could move, you couldn't freely travel here in Lafayette for about the first 24 hours as locals were busy clearing roadways. Then shortly after that you couldn't travel because of the massive and very rapid influx of evacuees. The road clearing was done with chain saws and fourwheelers or trucks, and lots of gatorade/water.

Also a healthy smattering of common sense, street smarts and patience because your town is going to be overrun with evacuees who are displaced, some lost having no knowledge of new area, mad, pissed off, and many desperate and or destitute looking to take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself. Hope this helps, and again not to disappoint but knives weren't nearly as important as other things. I also had numerous friends that went to New Orleans with their own boat and brought people in for days. All they wanted was Military style rifles and someone to ride shotgun with it, water, gatorade, fuel for boat and life jackets.

So much of what happened down there was completely unnecessary and falls squarely at feet of their still Mayor Ray "Willie Wonka" Nagen. Total and complete incompetence.
 
Knife is just one part of a very large equation in terms of disaster. I think nothing more than an Axe/Saw, Mora and SAK will get most people through in terms of edged tools - but folks will use what they are used to, or over prepare for whatever contingencies.
 
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