RE: What's in +your+ car? Was: Re: Map documentation

[coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com]

>Um...you're driving an apartment on wheels.
>
>My car contains a pair of sunglasses and a GPS system.  Don't need 
anything
>else.  Accidents in Los Angeles require a helicopter, not a first-aid 
kit.
>And although I'm willing to try driving in a sleeping bag while eating a
>cereal bar, I think the CHP frowns on this.  HTH.

It's a different kind of wilderness.  :)

*pause, mental inventory*

Sleeping bag, first aid kit, change of clothes, shaving kit, about 5-6,000 
calories worth of MREs and PowerBars, collapsible snow shovel, chemlights, 
2 flashlights, Zippo lighter, 100 feet of paracord, folding pocketknife, 
extrication knife, highway flares, photocopies of essential IDs, road maps 
for all surrounding states, copies of car and house keys.  Water unless 
the forecast calls for sustained below-freezing temperatures. 
Miscellaneous car tools and supplies.  More gear goes in the trunk if I'm 
planning to leave the local area - this is just what I like to have on 
hand for general utility or in case I have to stay a night or two at the 
office.

This has very little direct bearing on technical writing, but I could 
argue that planning and stocking an emergency kit is a process which 
involves both training (not much point in prepping a first aid kit if you 
don't know how to use it...) and requirements analysis.  Given the recent 
emphasis on emergency preparedness at all levels of government, there's 
gotta be some documentation work out there for this sort of thing.

- C.
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