Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
@ YR- Your original question was misleading. "Into shelter" suggests you need to leave home- not just go downstairs, as did the title "Emergency evacuation plans".
oh no i tots got that after ye started commenting and stuffs so i wanted to clarify - originally I thought it would be good to be as broad and open as possible following the line of thinking “someone’s wildfire protocols could work for my tornado protocols” but then later thought perhaps i should be more specific and let people know what i’m specifically work with

In any case, tornadoes do not give you time to pack a bunch of snakes elsewhere- especially large or otherwise challenging ones. Keeping a snake-bag next to each enclosure might help, but still, moving them all is not realistic unless you do so in advance under a storm "watch"- When "watches" become "warnings" the danger is imminent, but many "watches" don't ever become "warnings" so you're going to get a LOT of exercise.
i really like the bag suggestion and i do plan to run drills to test various ways of doing it - i think i have a technique that could work on all of them but my scrubs who, while being easy to get out of their enclosure are v difficult back into their enclosures - yesterday i received an advanced national weather service advisory for tornadoes so i tried my best to get everyone in the basement as quick as i could to wait out the advisory and i felt v bad that it took awhile cuz i carried the small enclosures down and then put the big ones in giant totes i have in the closet of their room for travel - so i thought maybe i could learn exercises for greater success

And basements are great unless we're talking about a flood. There's more than one kind of emergency.
the primary concerns for me personally would mainly just be the recent “favorable conditions” for tornadoes - i live in the centre of one of the major cities here and it would fortunately take quite a lot to get to me if it flooded and we’d be on the second floor by default - even more remote would be wildfires and hurricanes would be impossible i think - so basically planning for things like tornadoes or also, chemical plant related accidents

^speaking of which - if i bagged my collection up in a hurry does anyone know or reckon if i could modify a tote to be able to keep them safe in the event of a chemical plant accident affecting air quality? this happened before and had a profound negative impact on my arachnid collection at the time so would be cool to brainstorm this also