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Old 03-18-2011, 10:46 AM   #18
wolf
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Originally Posted by Cloud View Post
always pack a deck of cards in your bugout bag.

... I don't think I remember any card games. Except Go Fish.
I do. I have a set of plastic (not plasticized, actual plastic, Bicycle makes them) cards as well as regular pasteboards.

And I remember a lot of card games, suitable for small children to adults, including numerous versions of solitaire.

I also have a small chess/checkers/backgammon set.

Child management and entertainment is supposed to be part of the standard Red Cross offerings. When I was working at a recovery center during some flooding here, there was a child care area set up with toys, stuffed animals (that the kids were allowed to take with them), and a licensed child-care working watching over everything. This wasn't a shelter, this was a FEMA site where folks were coming to do the paperwork to get their vouchers.
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