Your home is about to be incinerated, but you've been given enough time to evacuate everyone and fill a single container you have already with belongings to bring. What are you loading up, and what it
Can the container be the car? I've lived in my car before. Insurance paperwork (to hopefully be able to get $ for the destruction of the house), phone & chargers, IDs, all my underwear, a change of clothes. Work would probably let me park it in the garage while I was recovering from the loss, if I can keep the job, will land on my feet. If not, things quickly devolve.
This answer assumes the other residents of the house are all ok and not part of this scenario, and I only have to worry about me.
When we have had pending natural disaster, we bring clothes, kids & pets, have documents already in plastic bags, stow my car on second floor of work garage and fill coolers with ice, we have a protocol for hurricanes, but fire is a wildcard.
The bin of important documents. Everything else is replaceable. Pictures and data are backed up digitally. Clothes can be bought again. Family is already safe.
Into my largest suitcase: cash, medicine, important paperwork, yearbooks, favorite childhood stuffed animals, a week of everyday clothes, photo albums, every greeting card my husband has ever given me, as much makeup and nail polish as I can fit (shit's expensive!), phone, kindle, the watercolor I had commissioned of my dog who is no longer with us, and my box of yorkshire gold
Consider making a list of everything you own, including brand and model. If you ever have a house fire, it’ll be the single most worthwhile thing you’ve ever done. There are entire companies dedicated to maximizing your insurance payout after a total loss; All they do is ensure you’re listing makes and models (or at least specs) for everything.
Insurance companies have gigantic lists of the absolute cheapest items on the market for common household items. If you list “toaster” on your insurance list, the insurance company will only pay out for the cheapest toaster on the market. The more specific your listing is, the less wiggle room they have to cheap out on you. That service will increase your payout by listing specifics. They change it from “toaster” to “pink retro-style four-slice toaster with bagel and defrost settings”, and your payout for that toaster goes from $3 to $280.
38 Comments
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 16 pts · 355d
OK, you know what, I declare my house the container. Now what?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 355d
The container with all your belongings is incinerated.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 355d
My towel
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 355d
And your award for the fjords, I assume.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 355d
Now this is a frood who really knows where his towel is
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 355d
I mean it depends on how big the container is and whether or not my cat is included in "everyone". If not my cat then my PC and books
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 355d
It's whatever you already have available to use, and I'd say anyone alive, be they human, cat, or alligator, is included in everyone.
potatoguy@potato-guy.space · 8 pts · 355d
kafka, only one kafka container and I can solve the performance issues. just let it be async dude.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 355d
Guns, cash, photos, safe contents.
Everything else is replaceable.
edit: I realize the guns are replaceable, but not like go to the corner store and buy same day replaceable. And I might need them.
Zak@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 355d
If someone is burning your house down, it seems very likely you would have an immediate use for guns.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
Can we just agree to let all the guns incinerate please
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 354d
Hmm, why? I'm generally a pacifist, but I don't see us getting out of our current global predicament without some violence.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
Now is hardly the time to disarm.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 355d
My whole apartment. Joke's on you it's a shipping container!
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
^ Hiro Protagonist up in here.
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 355d
IDs and computing devices.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 355d
Depends on where I'm going honestly.
The streets? Survival stuff. Food, water, tent, and power adapters for cars.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 355d
Can the container be the car? I've lived in my car before. Insurance paperwork (to hopefully be able to get $ for the destruction of the house), phone & chargers, IDs, all my underwear, a change of clothes. Work would probably let me park it in the garage while I was recovering from the loss, if I can keep the job, will land on my feet. If not, things quickly devolve.
This answer assumes the other residents of the house are all ok and not part of this scenario, and I only have to worry about me.
When we have had pending natural disaster, we bring clothes, kids & pets, have documents already in plastic bags, stow my car on second floor of work garage and fill coolers with ice, we have a protocol for hurricanes, but fire is a wildcard.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 355d
I grab my go bag and step outside to wait for the fire trucks. Lived on a boat for years, so i always keep a waterproof go bag handy.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 353d
My home is itself a container. I choose that.
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 355d
The bin of important documents. Everything else is replaceable. Pictures and data are backed up digitally. Clothes can be bought again. Family is already safe.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 355d
Laptop bag is the container, full of laptop and accessories. Fucker costs too damn much to just let burn.
200ok@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 355d
Literally anything other than my work devices
Ludrol@szmer.info · 2 pts · 355d
toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 355d
Oh shit, I hope things get better soon. That sounds rough.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 355d
what? why is your house incinerated?
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 352d
@Ludrol@szmer.info I'm sorry for you. fuck feudalists, eat the rich!
Ludrol@szmer.info · 1 pts · 355d
AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
Basic clothes, because it’s hard to find things that fit
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d
I have a 40 for shipping container beside my house. I'm good.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 355d
Server, laptop and documents
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 353d
My teddy bear that I still have, my black belt, my parents photos
Anything else I can burn
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 346d
Bold to assume I would leave.
gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 355d
I'm a minimalist, I don't have such weakness. If I have to get out ASAP, the fire safe plus my bushcraft/survival bag. Anything else can be replaced.
Tangerine@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 355d
Put on respirator. Grab bug-out bag. Get out.
Preferably under 2 minutes if I can smell smoke.
klemptor@startrek.website · 2 pts · 353d
Into my largest suitcase: cash, medicine, important paperwork, yearbooks, favorite childhood stuffed animals, a week of everyday clothes, photo albums, every greeting card my husband has ever given me, as much makeup and nail polish as I can fit (shit's expensive!), phone, kindle, the watercolor I had commissioned of my dog who is no longer with us, and my box of yorkshire gold
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
You have reminded me to catalogue the collection
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 353d
Consider making a list of everything you own, including brand and model. If you ever have a house fire, it’ll be the single most worthwhile thing you’ve ever done. There are entire companies dedicated to maximizing your insurance payout after a total loss; All they do is ensure you’re listing makes and models (or at least specs) for everything.
Insurance companies have gigantic lists of the absolute cheapest items on the market for common household items. If you list “toaster” on your insurance list, the insurance company will only pay out for the cheapest toaster on the market. The more specific your listing is, the less wiggle room they have to cheap out on you. That service will increase your payout by listing specifics. They change it from “toaster” to “pink retro-style four-slice toaster with bagel and defrost settings”, and your payout for that toaster goes from $3 to $280.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 353d
My home is itself a container. I choose that.