The first thing I noticed while driving out of our neighborhood in the still-mostly-dark was that the power was out for a lot of our neighbors just blocks away, and for a lot of other neighborhoods. The first traffic light I hit was dark, but there was nobody around. The second light, in a much bigger intersection, was down- literally down, the cables that strung the light across the intersection had failed and the lights themselves were scattered around on the road. Still nobody around, so I carefully drove around the fallen lights and toward town.
The Urban/Suburban EDC/Get-Home kit list
I’m a firm believer in versatility. The more detailed the scenario, the more specific you get in trying to predict the future, the more likely you are to be wrong, so I believe in just generally enabling yourself to handle more situations as they come up. Knives, flashlights, and multi-tools are among the most versatile tools there are, and can make you a whole lot harder to kill in a “collateral damage” sense. Insulation, water carrying capacity and the ability to make fire are almost universal needs.