>>2425142First off, thank you for your assessment
Don't quite get what do you mean with the ponchos, are you reffering to orange ones? They're just for signaling, and to wear around people. I got two weighting 700gram a piece olive ones. Bit heavy compared to US military issued weighting 450-500gram if I'm correct, but wanted the extra durability. I actually have a lot of experience with those as tarps, single or two joined together. I've chosen those over waterproof jackets because they can be worn over backpack and baby carrier at the same time. It's just one item I got in olive as it would provide some camouflage when used as shelter in the woods
Most of your other questions about what I pack are already on this list:
https://theprepared.com/kits/4d161aa8/Interesting about fake ID and maps, I will give them a thought
During our evac drills I actually urge kids to be quiet. They're already used to be carried for hours. If I had the luxury of choosing I would live city at night when kids are most likely to sleep through it (that's when extra earplugs come handy as well). Cough, crying kid and dogs barking are most likely to give away your position in non-permissible environment
As for the route, it's not that long even on foot but I'm planning on series of burried cashes in chocepoints, that's one of the reasons I've chosen shovel over axe
As for mitigating vulnerability my biggest project is to move out of city altogether. Most of the problems since march 2020 would be virtually non-existant if we had house in rural area
Picrel: winter evac drill
