EVACUATION! What do I do?

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Originally Posted by SpartaDog

Well, I ended up not having to evacuate after all. The storm totally chickened out on us. The lights flickered, a stick or something hit the window, and it rained. A lot. That's about it.

But, thank you anyway to everyone who offered their advice! I suppose I'll keep it in mind for future emergencies. Thanks again!

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I would def suggest stocking up on emergency supplies for future possibilities

Yeah, an emergency bag is useful for those situations. We have a big dufflebag with pillowcases and small travel tubs for all of our animals. It also has heat packs(like those used for shipping), water bottles, towels and paper towels, small water bowls, and neosporin, with plenty of room for more if we know we are going to be gone for long periods of time and have the time to quickly grab our real heat pads and such. The bag is right beneath the cages, so in an emergency all we have to do is pull out the animals and put them in the tubs to move them, which are right beneath their real tubs. Put them in the bag and we are out of the door in less than a minute with all the supplies we need to last us for a while no matter what situation we are faced with.

The water bottles are there in case we are trapped in a place with no water, and we make sure to use good dechlorinated water for our pacman frog so he doesn't dry out, as well as to use for insulation(much the same way water bottles are used in incubators) if it is freezing and we have no electricity. Heat packs wrapped in towels to separate them from the tubs are there for the same reason, in case we have no options and the cold is reaching dangerous levels!

We've never had to use the bag, thank goodness :D but it's good to know it's there if something did happen(fire, tornado, hurricane, flood, you name it)