My husband works in a hospital and every so often they have a drill to evacuate patients from the hospital in a hurry if there was a disaster such a a train derailment where the train was carrying a hazardous load. After spending a day doing this he came home and asked me what arrangements I have made if I had to leave the house with my mom at a moments notice.
I now have a bag in my front closet that has a change of clothes, baby wipes, meds, a few toiletries, a roll of toilet paper and some depends. My mom doesn't use depends yet but with the craziness of an evacuation she might need them. I also have a book of word searches and a pencil just in case I need to keep her busy. I also have all of her information and a picture of her.
What do you have ready?
northernlights

That is a great idea northernlights. I always carried a change of clothes plus a couple extra depends in the trunk of the car. Baby wipes were kept in the car. There was only once that I needed an extra depend but I was glad that I had it when I did need it.
I also carried a couple extra days of his meds in my purse. Never did need to use them but it was good knowing that it was there just in case.
Also I carried a list of his meds in my purse.

Great post!!!

Great ideas! We live in earthquake country so I always have a supply of water and ready-to-eat foods, foil blankets etc but I hadn't thought of those other things.

I also live in earthquake country and I don't have a single thing prepared. Everything will fall off of the walls and we won't have a thing to eat or drink. Perhaps I should think about it some...

I just buy cases of 2L bottles of spring water, when they get close to expiration we use them and I get more. Red bean rice in retort pouches, crackers things like that. Cans of tuna.

The last time ('95 Kobe quake) I didn't have anything prepared as we'd never had a quake that big. We managed pretty well on what I had in the freezer and odds and ends from the supermarket (at one point all we could get were Kit-Kat bars, we ate those for a day). We found out the hard way that food disappears from the supermarket in the blink of an eye....ours was the only one open, people were walking from downtown to come shopping, 7 km through a tunnel! Getting bread was a 6-hour wait. so we used the somen noodles in the pantry, spaghetti, and ham and things in the freezer and did pretty well.

I thought later that if our water main had broken we would have been sunk, no way to cook rice, pasta, noodles, and so I started keeping water in the house. All our catalogues started carrying emergency goods every January around the anniversary of the quake, so I picked up some flashlights, hot packs (I forget what they're called in English, hand warmers? We have big ones to put on your lower back) foil blankets, and a radio.