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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Someone living in Miami might want to have a secondary location with preparation at an alternate inland site, perhaps at a friend's or relative's house.
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The kit in the auto should be appropriate for the season and the threat. What you would keep in a preparedness kit in Buffalo, NY in February would not be the same as New Orleans in August. The car kit should be designed to supplement your personal kit, and to allow you to survive in your car or on the move for a given period, perhaps 3-7 days, while you wait for rescue or move to a better location.
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The big difficulty we've run into is the frequency of moves we've had, space alloted us in quarters and weight allowances. Out of pure need things like our generator are now being stored at my father's home until we get a little more stable. Although, his house would likely be our secondary location - as you stated TR. I'm not sure if this is naive of me or not, but I'm assuming that if we are living on post our need for large, major things like generators should be lower. I wish we could have all the supplies with us for a long haul, but there is simply no room.
Since we anticipate another PCS soon, I also find myself in the position of starting to try and use up as much of the food storage I can to lighten our weight. I really wish we didn't have to do that, but I guess it helps with rotation and it helps the food budget on the way out! What stinks is trying to build it up again with each subsequent move.
We've been from Ft. Drum to Ft. Huachuca recently and the car kits and emergency supplies we keep in the car are very different. I don't dare get rid of the emergency blankets or other cold weather supplies though. With our PCS pattern, it is inevitable we'll end up using it again.
What we really need to buy is a trailer. Any recommendations? My husband has a full-size pickup truck but we wouldn't want to get anything too big, but we wouldn't want to kick ourselves later for going too small.