What would you grab if your house is on fire/earthquake?

RaymondLin · September 2023

So I was texting a friend who lives in Rabat on Friday night and they had a massive earthquake (she's fine as it's far from the epicenter), and then everyone went on the street in the few hours after in case of aftershocks, and people grab what they could. They were still outside at 2:30am when she sent me a photo of some dude, topless, in a pair of shorts, no shoes, holding a PS5. No cables, no controller, just a PS5 on the street.

What would you bring out? Let's assume you have your phone/wallet/passport in your pocket. What would you take in your 2 free hands?

I think i would grab the NAS / Hard drive of photos and perhaps my blue PRS.

Dominic · September 2023

the house insurance policy

viz · September 2023

Wife and children

(by which I mean my guitar and my pedals, I don’t really)

munckee · September 2023

Probably my special w4nking glove.

scrumhalf · September 2023

Looking at that earthquake and the damage it caused I'd probably grab my arse and kiss it goodbye.

On a more serious note I would probably grab my medication.

oh_pollo · September 2023

I love Ricky Gervais's answer to this: "One of the twins."

roberty · September 2023

Probably my pedal board to be honest. I hate soldering patch leads lol

breakstuff · September 2023

My three Chihuahuas and three cats. I reckon between the wife and I we could just about scoop all six up in one go.

Then send the wife back in to grab as many guitars as she could.

Shrews · September 2023

This is like the prize conveyor on The Generation Game

PRS guitar, pedal board, medication, special wanking glove...

RaymondLin · September 2023

Shrews said:

This is like the prize conveyor on The Generation Game

PRS guitar, pedal board, medication, special wanking glove...

I would grab my cameras but they are all insured and each camera is identical to the next.

axisus · September 2023

Assuming that the wife & kids are OK, My irreplaceable no 1 guitar with one hand and the home mac backup with our family photos in the other hand.

Keiko · September 2023

Good to see that the 'get out, stay out, call us out' campaign was successful. Yeah there's plenty of time just to nip round the house and grab a few of your favourite posessions. Fire doesn't spread all that quickly and a bit of smoke never harmed anyone.

Lestratcaster · September 2023

My main guitar (modified Squier Strat) and probably my Kemper profiler.

Kittyfrisk · September 2023

Shrews said:

This is like the prize conveyor on The Generation Game

PRS guitar, pedal board, medication, special wanking glove...

About the right demographic too...

swiller · September 2023

guitars
Hollands steak and kidney puddings from the freezer
Slippers
Wallet
Laptop.
'kin sorted

axisus · September 2023

Keiko said:

Good to see that the 'get out, stay out, call us out' campaign was successful. Yeah there's plenty of time just to nip round the house and grab a few of your favourite posessions. Fire doesn't spread all that quickly and a bit of smoke never harmed anyone.

I have literally never heard of that campaign!

axisus · September 2023

I'd nip back in to squirt some lighter fluid on the wife's Westlife CDs

Kittyfrisk · September 2023

axisus said:

Keiko said:

Good to see that the 'get out, stay out, call us out' campaign was successful. Yeah there's plenty of time just to nip round the house and grab a few of your favourite posessions. Fire doesn't spread all that quickly and a bit of smoke never harmed anyone.

I have literally never heard of that campaign!

Well it was introduced a while ago https://www.lgcplus.com/archive/minister-announces-fire-public-safety-campaign-get-out-stay-out-call-999-23-10-2002/
It does still exist in various places, but there isn't the coherent widespread Public Information system as existed in the 1970's & 80's.
https://staywise.co.uk/blue-light-users/resource/maths-code-breaker-get-out-stay-out-call-999

Hootsmon · September 2023

A telephone and telephone the rest of the occupants when I was a safe distance away that the house was on FIRE

fastonebaz · September 2023

A bottle of water, a sandwich and a blanket.

maharg101 · September 2023

Favourite strat, and favourite Les Paul.

People saying to grab the backups of your computer - get yourself a cloud backup plan from Backblaze or some such, and save an extra guitar from a fiery demise !

NothingOnTheTele · September 2023

In one hand, my briefcase containing my journals. In the other, my hard-drive full of old photos. And with my incredibly dextrous toes I'd grab the cat before hopping away to freedom.

tony99 · September 2023

Fill a cup with water and try and coax my goldfish to jump into it; it takes too long trying to catch him by hand.

rlw · September 2023

Cats

Tannin · September 2023

A few cameras and lenses (certainly the 5DSR and the 600/4), laptop (in that bag are hard drives with important data also), and I can carry two guitars in the other hand. The Maton WA May and the Tacoma Thunderhawk ... no, the Cole Clark Angel. All else aside, I doubt I could carry the Thunderhawk and another guitar in one hand - it's too big and heavy.

BillDL · September 2023

Dominic said:

the house insurance policy

I know it sounds sad, but have a fireproof container about the size of a briefcase in the bottom of my wardrobe in which I keep all my important documentation like insurance certificates and policies, passport, driver's licence, birth certificate, contact addresses and phone numbers, medical insurance docs, household inventory with serial numbers (including musical equipment with photos), flash drives and external hard drives with important and sentimental / irreplaceable docs and photos, and a spare PAYG mobile phone that I charge regularly and keep topped up with a balance. If the house burns down and I can't grab the container as I run out the house the important stuff will still be there intact in the rubble. I don't suppose that would help if it was an earthquake and the whole house collapsed with the container buried in it and I managed to crawl out, but there's only so much you can do as far as contingency planning is concerned. Most physical objects can be replaced, but if you have the means to make it as easy as possible to start getting back on your feet that's more important.

Cranky · September 2023

My family, dogs and truck keys. If time, my best acoustic.

Emp_Fab · September 2023

Fuck all. I'd get the hell out of there as fast as possible. Everything is replaceable except your life. Nothing is more important than that.

Brio · September 2023

Imagine what would be going through Josef Fritzl's mind if he had to leave the house without any preparation time...

CHRISB50 · September 2023

My watch.

Haych · September 2023

I have an emergency bag packed and ready just in case "something" ever happens. I'd probably just grab that and make sure the family is out safely.

Almost everything else are just things and things can be replaced.

We have friends who literally lost everything in a fire, they no longer have what most people would call cherished possessions, family heirlooms gone. Wedding photographs gone. The lot just burned to ash, not to mention the roof over their head, the car and the business all up in smoke.

They don't seem to have suffered too much for it. Yes it was distressing for them but as they will admit, it could have been a lot worse and nobody in the family was hurt or injured.

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