{"product_id":"2-person-hurricane-emergency-kit-the-safeharbor","title":"2-Person Hurricane Emergency Kit - The SafeHarbor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHurricane season starts with a forecast, not an emergency. There is usually a stretch of days where the storm has a name and a track and you still have time to decide what your household is going to do. This kit is meant to fill that window, so that when the decision comes, deciding is the only work left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 72-hour emergency survival kit for two, built for hurricane preparedness, evacuation and extended power outages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuilt for hurricanes, useful well beyond them.\u003c\/strong\u003e The same supplies cover a winter storm that takes the power out for four days, a tornado warning that sends you to the basement, a wildfire evacuation, a boil-water advisory, or a grid failure in August. Hurricanes are simply the hardest version of the problem, because one storm can ask a household to shelter in place and evacuate in the same week. A kit built for that handles the easier cases comfortably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChoose your container.\u003c\/strong\u003e The SafeHarbor comes two ways, with identical supplies inside and at the same price. The container is the only difference, and it should match what you would actually do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBackpack.\u003c\/strong\u003e One multi-pocket pack, 14 lbs, 18 by 10 by 10 inches, contents sorted into waterproof bags. One person carries it to the car in one trip. This is the one for an evacuation zone, for a wildfire area, or for anyone who wants a ready go bag by the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBucket.\u003c\/strong\u003e A five-gallon bucket with a toilet seat lid, 14 lbs, 12 by 12 by 15 inches. This is the one for staying put, and the lid is the reason. When the water stops, the toilet stops, and \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/what-do-we-do-about-bathrooms-if-the-water-stops-working\" title=\"What do we do about bathrooms if the water stops working?\"\u003esanitation becomes urgent faster than most households expect\u003c\/a\u003e. Lift the supplies out and the bucket is ready. Empty, it also holds collected water, works as a seat or a wash basin, and carries debris during cleanup. A backpack cannot do any of that. We checked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot sure which? \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gearupsurvivalkits.com\/pages\/how-do-we-know-whether-to-stay-home-or-evacuate\" title=\"Shelter in place or evacuate?\"\u003eMany emergencies call for sheltering in place rather than evacuating\u003c\/a\u003e, so the bucket may suit more households than they expect. Plenty of families keep one of each, one by the door and one in the garage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is inside, either way:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree days of food for each of you.\u003c\/strong\u003e A 3,600-calorie ration bar per person, with a three to five year shelf life and nothing to cook, heat, or add. Each bar is portioned at 1,200 calories a day for three days. That's an emergency ration, not a normal day's eating, but it keeps everyone going. No stove, no power, no hot water required, which is the whole point when the kitchen is out of action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWater to drink now, and a way to make more.\u003c\/strong\u003e Twenty-four sealed 4 oz pouches, twelve per person, which comes to 48 ounces each, about a third of a gallon. \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/how-much-water-does-my-family-actually-need-in-an-emergency\" title=\"How much water does my family actually need in an emergency?\"\u003eReady.gov, FEMA's preparedness campaign, recommends a full gallon per person per day\u003c\/a\u003e for drinking and sanitation together, so treat the pouches as the supply that gets you started. Then there are twenty purification tablets, each treating one liter, which is a little over five gallons in total. A flat fold two gallon carrier and two 1-liter hydration bags with straws give you somewhere to put it. That combination is as useful during a boil-water advisory as it is after a storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA weather radio with no batteries to buy.\u003c\/strong\u003e The 4-in-1 dynamo unit hand cranks into a NOAA weather band radio, a flashlight, a siren, and a phone charger. NOAA weather band carries watches and warnings straight from the National Weather Service for every kind of severe weather, tornadoes and winter storms included, and it keeps working when the cell network is congested and your phone is at nine percent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLight in four forms.\u003c\/strong\u003e An LED lantern for a room, the dynamo flashlight for your hands, an emergency candle, and an emergency bright stick. A bright orange help flag goes in a window so anyone working down the street knows which house to stop at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShelter and warmth for two.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two emergency survival sleeping bags, two hooded ponchos, a two-person tube tent with cord, and two instant body warmers. This is the part that matters in a winter outage, when the furnace goes quiet along with the lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTools for the days after the storm, not just during it.\u003c\/strong\u003e A metal hatchet, a pack of nails, a roll of duct tape, safety goggles, rubber-palm work gloves, and fifty feet of nylon rope. A branch down across the driveway, a window that needs covering, wet debris to move out of the way. A multitool is fine during an emergency, but cleanup takes more than that. Alongside those, a multi-function pocket knife, a flint starter, a sewing kit, and a notepad and pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst aid and hygiene that hold up for days.\u003c\/strong\u003e A deluxe soft shell first aid kit covers bandages, gauze, topical ointments, and medicine for the cuts, scrapes, and blisters that come with cleanup. The hygiene kit covers two people: toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap, shampoo and conditioner, deodorant, lotion, razors and shave cream, combs, washcloths, eighteen wet wipes, sanitary napkins, pocket tissues, face masks, and an infectious waste bag. Any long outage is dirty work, and staying clean is part of staying well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomething to do.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fifty-two survival playing cards, each one illustrating a real skill. A long evening with no power goes faster with a deck of cards, and the kids pick something up without being taught.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it is for.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two people in one household. A couple, a parent and a teenager, or an adult child putting a kit in a parent's coat closet. If you live on the coast, buy it before the season. If you live inland, it is still the kit that covers the week your power goes out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeeping it ready.\u003c\/strong\u003e Check it twice a year, and the daylight saving weekends make an easy reminder. Replace the food and water if they are past date, and put back anything you have used. That is the whole maintenance list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SafeHarbor is hand-assembled in the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike every kit we sell, this one sends $1 to the National Forest Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePacked long before you need it, and forgotten until you do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gear Up Survival Kits","offers":[{"title":"Backpack","offer_id":50578664063193,"sku":"SKHR-BBP","price":142.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Bucket","offer_id":50579710050521,"sku":"SKHR","price":142.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/7546\/9529\/files\/safeharbor_both_kits-compressed.webp?v=1790878344","url":"https:\/\/gearupsurvivalkits.com\/products\/2-person-hurricane-emergency-kit-the-safeharbor","provider":"Gear Up Survival Kits","version":"1.0","type":"link"}