{"id":797,"date":"2012-01-30T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:20:13","slug":"thumb-drives-for-disaster-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Thumb drives for disaster preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Uncle<\/a>\u00a0both mentioned someone raising the idea of\u00a0including electronics in you bug out kit<\/a>. \u00a0Me being me, I figured I’d throw in my two cents. \u00a0Especially since, while I wasn’t one of those hit by the\u00a0little bit of rain here in Nashville last year<\/a>, I did have to quickly evacuate in the middle of the night a few years ago due to an apartment fire that took out my entire building. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to escape with my wallet, car keys, and money, but that was largely because they were still in the pants next to my bed. \u00a0A few of the other folks weren’t as lucky and had a bit harder time dealing with the rescue workers (and I’m assuming everyone else) when they were asked for identification.<\/p>\n

I would highly encourage everyone to carry a USB thumb drive with scans of important documents on it. \u00a0I will say that you don’t have to buy a high capacity one or one that’s been “ruggedized.” \u00a0I’ve been carrying a 1GB Sandisk MicroCruiser that I bought back when that was the high capacity size. \u00a0It’s been riding on my key chain ever since and has taken a pretty good beating because of it. \u00a0I check it periodically to make sure it still works, and so far, so good.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I have on mine and would recommend having on yours: a folder encrypted using TrueCrypt<\/a>\u00a0that contains scans of my birth certificate, SS card, driver’s license, and other important documents or information (some include a text file with bank account info, etc), a portable copy of TrueCrypt \u00a0to access the folder, and portable copies of OpenOffice and Foxit (PDF viewer) from portableapps.com<\/a>. \u00a0As long as I have access to a computer running Windows with an open USB drive, I’m good to go.<\/p>\n

Oh, and notice I said “have on me,” not “ready to go” or “in my bug out bag.” \u00a0I learned in the fire, that I only had time to grab a couple things (including pants and shoes) before I had to get out due to smoke. \u00a0I failed to find my cellphone because my girlfriend moved it a foot from where I had put it when I went to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam\u00a0and\u00a0Uncle\u00a0both mentioned someone raising the idea of\u00a0including electronics in you bug out kit. \u00a0Me being me, I figured I’d throw in my two cents. \u00a0Especially since, while I wasn’t one of those hit by the\u00a0little bit of rain here in Nashville last year, I did have to quickly evacuate in the middle of the night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-preparedness","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}