SH-GO-BAG - Your To Go Bag
How to Utilize Items:
The SH-GO-BAG offers the "Survival Essentials Rules of Three:
- Shelter
- Water
- Food for short term.
Survival House recommends that you familiarize yourself with each item in your SH-GO-BAG. An actual disaster scenario is not the time to learn how to use these items as some could hinder the care, assistance, and/or safety to yourself or others.
WATER
The 4.5 oz. water pouches are included to provide immediate water until additional resources can be obtained. A minimum of 1 gallon of water per person per day is recommended. Water purification tablets and a canteen are included for obtaining water.
Hypothermia can kill in minutes. A two degree drop in core body temperature brings on the symptoms and initial stages of hypothermia. Conversely, a heat and humidity will dehydrate the body even in a sedentary position. The travel size poncho, emergency blanket, paracord, and multitool are included to provide the number 1 in the Rules of 3, Shelter.
It is important to remember that some of these items are only intended as a short-term use and may not stand up to repeated use or extremely severe conditions. Therefore, more substantial products should be obtained for extreme conditions. With minimal care and simple construction an adequate form of shelter can be constructed.
Survival House has included a most essential item in its pack; the document bag. This is a heavy mill waterproof bag intended to store important documents such as: Insurance(s), medical, personal, maps, contacts and other.
Food
The short term food rations will provide essential caloric requirements and should be supplemented with personal requirements/desires as necessary. It is important to reiterate that SH-GO-BAG is intended as a basic survival kit and personal items such as: Medical, personal hygiene, sanitation, additional food(s), clothing, and other individual items must be added as individual needs, desires, and climatic conditions require.
Items included that have an expiration date should be rotated out and replaced prior to expiration. This is particularly important since many medicines, water purification tablets, water, food, and other will lose their effectiveness and potentially become toxic after date of expiration. Similarly considerations should be given to climatic seasonal changes for clothing allowances.
Your resolve to maintain the integrity of your SH-GO-BAG and keep it updated is the responsibility of the individual; necessities for females are different from males, children vs. adults, seniors vs. adolescents.
Your simple care and maintenance of your SHGOBAG will provide the peace of mind now and emergency essentials when you need them.