AHHH!!!...Your house is on fire!!!
 

QUICK!...What do you grab on your way out?

You've only got 2 hands and 5 minutes


Can't say 'Kids, spouses or pets'...In this scenario they all get out just fine, and that goes without saying




For me:

My FFA committee chairman jacket (it has all of my medals on it), my photo albums, videos of the kids, and my grandmother's cookbook (she died when I was 7)

I can replace everything else...'Things' don't really mean much to me...Although, I would hate to have to start my horror movie and book collections all over again

BEER

My projector

I-pod

BEER

As many DVDS as I can

BEER

Computer and backup hard drive. Everything i have created are on them.

Wedding pictures (most of my other pictures are back in Georgia with my parents), wedding video, my favorite pair of jeans (you all may find that funny, but they were hard to find...LOL), and my notebooks of short stories and (bad) poetry.

That's it I think, though it would be hard for me not to grab a few books or DVDs though on my way out.....:eek:

I'm in a dorm on the 9th floor. I don't think it'll catch on fire. But if it did....

My Betta Fish
My dvd binder
My ipod/cell/wallet/keys/nintendo ds
My AE hoodie (priceless memory)

usb external harddrive where the family pictures are

box in the bedroom where the stamp/coin collections are.

couldnt do a damn thing about anything else

Whatever I can throw out the window in time. I would probably throw something large through my picture window and then start tossing stuff out of it as far away from the house as possible.

my hard drive (my computer's screwed up anyway), my stratocaster, maybe a few dvds, my dvd player, i guess.

My cell phone which is my prized possession aside from pictures of Jason and one of my parents. I would try to take my computer. I guess that's it. I'm not really a material girl. :p

My Nine Inch Nails collection,my hardrive,My picture of my Dad and my mom.My cell phone,my mp4 player and all the dvd's i can get.

My porn. If I don't get it out, the fire will burn for weeks.

Hard drive and wallet. And since I've got 5 minutes and all my dvds are boxed, I could probably get those too.

i think i'd just sit in front of my DVDs crying until the firemen dragged me out

As many of my DVDs as possible. I have a pretty big bag beside my bed so I could stuff 'em in.

A few photos, any I could see, they're all precious.

My hard drive

A few of my rarer coke bottles

My piece of the original Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film (that my nan bought me).

All of the above are irreplacable other than the DVDs.

Yeah, my pets are cats that never want to go outside...I'd HAVE TO get those stupid fuckers or at least shoo 'em out.

I live in a pretty small apartment, so, these things could get done in a matter of moments...not to mention, there's two of us, see?

I'd take the pc tower as nearly all our photos are on there, not to mention it's pretty much all you need for any entertainment.

I'd grab our clothes into big garbage bags.

Probably grab my big knife, cutting board and large nonstick pan.

These things, I could start over with.

my house is on fire? oh shit,..........




i'll grab my two framed planet terror posters, two framed eazy-e posters, and my framed jim morrison poster..there all the same size 38"x26" they'll stack up neatly together be easy to place in a safe spot outside in my fenced backyard. ....my laptop and power wire....

my eazy e t shirt and my recording equipment,...mic and mic stand...pre amp....wirez....


things that are going to burn...

my dvd collection

two guitars

a keyboard

music collection

bed

various unframed horror posters

drum set

desk and dresser of clothes...

All you folks that are say your harddrive- are they really that accessable? You've got FIVE MINUTES. My harddrive would take 10-15 minutes to extricate from my computer.

My bass guitar and some clothes to wear.

Some water.

...Hence, I'd take the tower, never come across one that couldn't be lifted easily...even quicker process for an external hd.

But yeah, I'd make sure to take clothes...seems the one thing people neglect in a situation like that.

The Rottweilers. Everything else is replaceable.

OMG...You would be sooo dead :p


That's what I was thinking, but then again, I wouldn't even be able to FIND my hard drive:o

Of course, if people have external hard drives, I could see that

all mine are bought in a thrift store - and would be replaced the same way ...

instant wardrobe for 50$

except socks and underwear - bu those are cheap.

I have the same attitude toward clothing...Clothes are cheap and easy to replace...Especially when the majority of your wardrobe (like mine) is jeans and t-shirts...Although, I would kinda miss my boots...Still, I could always get more :)

My house on fire and I got 2 minutes? Hmm...

First 30 seconds - Grab anything valuable - computer server (luckily my server cabinet comes with a handle on top :D ), pack of DVDs (I do put the valuable ones aside in a neat little packing, just for emergencies like this), and yell at my wife and Mom in the meanwhile.

Second 30 seconds - Run around and make a quick peek through all the rooms for a surreptious (sp?) glance for anything of value - clothes I would skip, as with other heavy objects.

Third 30 seconds - Jump into the bedroom and take some (if not all) cash out. Important to have funds in hand.

Last 30 seconds - Make a hasty dash out with family members, and call the Firemen from the cell.


That oughta do it. :) Although I separated the entire happening into 30 second-brackets, I wont be exactly checking out the watch while doing all the stuff I mentioned above, for sure.

Actually, it helps immensely to have a calm mind when facing such a sort of emergency.

We can make plans, but if it really happens, we have no idea what we might do, and it can be difficult for some people to think rationally during an emergency


Many years ago, my neighbor across the street had woken up in the middle of the night to a loud 'POP'...It was Christmas time, snowing, and he had a kerosene heater in the living room...His Christmas tree was in front of his window, the heater was about 4 feet from the window...And he entered the livingroom to find that his kerosene heater had exploded on the inside...He didn't know that his teenaged son had accidentally put gasoline in it instead of kerosene

His first reaction was to grab the handle of the heater (burning his hand), and drag it through the livingroom and kitchen to throw it out the side door...Which leaked a trail of gasoline all through the house, which quickly caught the carpet on fire

He lost everything because he didn't want to break the front window...He could have picked up the heater and thrown it through the window to save his house...But, it just didn't occur to him at the time...

Thats where a calm mind comes in.

Rational thinking is as much a part of it, as is the ability to take quick on-the-spot decisions. Someone who has been in such situations, can handle them better, when compared to someone who is facing it for the first time.

Heck, most people throw rationality out of the window when they are confronted with a raging fire anyway, heh. Its just protecting the family and self-survival instincts which drive their minds in those moments.

And thats completely understandable.

Yes, I did definitely understand his line of thinking...'Get the thing out of the house...That's what the door is normally used for'...Of course, when he was able to think more clearly, he was kicking himself for not throwing it through the window (instead of on the porch where two very large propain tanks were)...Whoops


I would think that I would act rationally, because I'm extremely logic-minded, and have had to deal with a few 'emergencies' when my mother was staring open-mouthed in a complete state of shock unable to move...Her inaction concerned me far more than the situation, but I handled it...I can't remember ever 'freaking out' at any time in my life...Of course, I still think we can't really be sure what we might do in any given emergency situation

I have an external hard drive which I put a copy of my most important things.

I've had a small duffel bag in the trunk of my car for several years now. It has 1 t-shirt, 1 sweater, 1 pair of socks, 2 pairs of boxers, a ratty pair of sneakers, a light stick, a water purifyier straw and $200 cash. It's the "shit just hit the fan" bag. So I'm ready for the day I have to go on the lam.

I'd get the kids out of the house, grab my wallet, passport, blackberry and computer tower and be out of there.

I joke about beer all the time here....its part of my persona. But let me tell you about the time
that beer...saved my family.

It was about 18 years ago...a warm august Sunday night at about 11:00 pm. Normally on a Sunday night
at this time I probably would have fallen asleep on the couch in the basement watching a movie.
But this Sunday night a friend of mine stopped by for a few "cold ones". At the time I only had three kids and my oldest was away staying at a friend's house. My other two [ages 8 & 6 ] were asleep in their room. My friend, my wife and myself were sitting on the back porch discussing world peace or some
other hot topic [ most likely something like "If the professor could make a radio out of a coconut...why couldn't
he get them off the damn island ] when my son came down from his room complaining about his foot and his face was covered in ...something black...it took but a second to figure out what was going on [ his foot had a burn on it ]and I bolted up the stairs for my daughter.She was not in her bed...WTF..the room was filling up with smoke and by the
time I spun around to look for her...the whole second floor was engulfed in black smoke. I felt my way around until I got to me and my wife's room..calling my daughters name [ shit...I'm getting goosebumps as I type this...something you NEVER forget]
I couldn't see jack shit and it was getting hard to breathe. I frantically reached and grabbed for ANYTHING in the dark
when I felt her little hand......I grabbed on for dear life and made my way downstairs and out the door. The firemen were there in minutes
and extinguished the flames. This whole episode only lasted a few minutes but it seemed like forever. We all went to the hospital to get checked out [ first and hopefully last time in an ambulance for me ] The second floor of my house had to be refurbished...mostly from smoke damage. They say to get down close to the floor in a fire and this is indeed the truth.
The walls on the second floor were as black as pitch down to about six inches from the floor.

So this is my story... its 100% true...BEER SAVED MY FAMILY

Maybe put a few bottles of water and a cell in there. Just a cheap one, you can get some for $20 roughly.