The Generalitat has made an announcement in which it recommends that we have "a kit "emergency" kit that "must allow self-sufficiency for 72 hours." We must keep it in a backpack at the entrance of the house, and it must contain, as we read in the ARABottled water, a battery-powered radio, a flashlight and spare batteries, and long-lasting food—like canned goods. In addition, you should also have your ID, passport, health insurance card, and insurance policy in a waterproof bag, cash, a first-aid kit, spare shoes, a raincoat, personal hygiene products, your cell phone and charger, a power bank, and your house keys.
House keys, as well as your ID, are things we're already used to carrying. Insurance policies are a whole other story. Those who know they have one shouldn't know where they keep it. A cell phone and charger? Please, if someone were to forget this device, they'd deserve a Saint George's Cross. A first-aid kit? With what? Cash? The coins we find on the sofa? Canned goods make sense, but which ones? Not caviar, since it needs refrigeration and doesn't last. Maybe the famous tuna. Bottled water? Depending on how many people live in the house, a bottle of red Grenache might be more useful, which is best left undone. Flashlights and batteries seem fine, but I understand that if we needed to use them, then our phone chargers wouldn't work. The only thing that bothers me is the backpack in the entryway. Should it be one per person or one per family? If it's one per family, whoever has to carry it (which at home would be me) with everyone's water will be sick of it. And if it's one per person, the mess bothers me even more. Three backpacks in the entryway?
I think that, to avoid headaches, distractions, and fatal mistakes ("Where did you leave your keys?" or "This tuna isn't packed in olive oil"), what we need is, instead of leaving backpacks in the entryway, to leave in-laws and mothers. Ladies who already naturally have a kit of six years of survival.
