The Survival Go Binder

The Survival Go Binder

By Joseph Parish

Okay, the moment has arrive when you hastily grab up your family members and pop them into the SUV or bug out vehicle to get abruptly out of town. This time its for real, it isn’t a practice exercise but the Real McCoy.

In moments such as these when a person is being rushed they undoubtedly forget important objects or documents that are critical for future survival purposes. Junior runs in one direction looking for personal effects that he really should have had all ready to go while sis is abruptly searching for lost items that she too has put off locating previously. Mom is hurriedly stuffing last minute items into a waiting nearby tote while I am loading everything into our bug out vehicle. This episode is nothing short of a picture in total confusion.

When the notice of evacuation for your location is released it is entirely too late to initiate your preparation procedures. These preliminary preparations should have been concluded and ready several months ago but for some reason human nature as it is always puts things off. In this case it is way too late. The words on everyone’s lips are, “Where can we start?”

Let’s back up this scenario a moment to several months in the past before being instructed to depart our home by the authorities. Most of our preparations can be accomplished easily and without undo stress if and only if they are done ahead of time. One vital item which I have constructed is what I refer to as a “Go Binder”. To me this notebook is as much of a necessity as would be my car keys or the food we load up to take with us. For adequate family preparations this is the first item we should be grabbing.

In the military we had Standard Operating Procedures which related to most emergencies that we would encounter. In the same respect this binder will have within its pages loads of instructions for dealing with various emergency conditions and related information. There are several sections of this binder. The first section contains copies of any important papers which may be necessary and thus should go with us. By placing these important documents in one central location they are always available when they are required. No longer will someone in the family need to rush around the home looking for insurance papers, birth certificates, etc. You can find them all in your emergency Go Binder.