Flood alert. What to put in a "Grab bag"

Soap toothbrush and paste

Snacks, phone battery, cash

Change of clothes.

Maybe a change of footwear?

Spare phone charger and photocopy of ID i.e passport etc.

Credit cards

Address book, if it’s not all on your phone.

Deodorant

This is what is recommended
floodassist.co.uk/articles/preparing-an-emergency-flood-grab-bag

Thank you for the link MOnica. That's really useful.

I d put anything precious upstairs and then as others have said phone iPad chargers, purse, glasses, keys, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, makeup bag, change of clothes, spare pair of undies

All of the above plus dog food.

I take a photo of all my essential paperwork in case it goes missing or gets damaged.

Phone and charger, proof of identity, driving licence, warm sweater, bank details, laptop with charger, travelling rugs.

And if I should ever need a grab bag it will be situated beside the cat carrier and contain the cats' drinking bowl, a bottle of clean water, and some cat food plus plate, plus leads and harnesses for each cat (there are two of them).

Keep your wellies handy.

Passport, driving licence and cash in addition to snacks, water and clean clothes etc mentioned above.

A few years ago, I posted a similar post about a hospital grab bag—night clothes and slippers or trainers. Your spare car keys any money you have in the house.
My friend pointed out that after our village was flooded a few years later, luckily not our house, she had put her valuable jewellery in a spare zipped make-up bag. Current medication and a spare repeat prescription if you have one.Any health care products you use i.e. Teena Lady.
If you have room duplicates of clean underwear and a warm jumper or fleece.Gloves scarf and hat. If you have to sleep in a village hall I have been informed it can be quite cold.

Lastly don't leave your bag on the floor where the flood might reach it.
Best of luck I hope you don't have to evacuate.

Yes I Kept my wellies upstairs. In 2014 when there were very severe local floods they could have filled up with water downstairs. Likewise the grab bag needs to be kept upstairs as well.
We were not flooded then, but friends were out of their house for many months.

Another tip I was given not pleasant but handy. When my friend had to evacuate she was desperate for a wee but could not use the loo. She waited until she had to wade through water and later laughed saying no one took any notice of her wet trousers. Another took large empty plastic bottles upstairs for her and her husband as again they could not use the toilet.
DH also made an evacuation list of which room to evacuate from either upstairs or down and we have a small nail beside each window with the window lock keys for each room on them.
A relation had to be winched by helicopter out of her house and she said a backpack would have been better than a handbag and grab bag.

i would never risk taking money into hospital with me, beyond a tenner or so for incidentals. Too much disappears in hospitals.

A rucksack not a handbag and everything in clear bags or those clear make up bags sold in Boots ,
Analgesia
Biogradable baby wipes
sanitary towels / Tena ladies .
Disposable gloves are also useful and keep your hands warm .
Masks .

Having read that list I am really grateful that I live on a steep hill.. it really makes one think though

Keep financial information online and save it to the cloud. Then you can access it at any time anywhere, if you can get access to a computer. You could also just save it to stick storage and put that in the bag.

Reading all the items on this thread, if someone packed all these in a grab bag, it would have to be a grab bag the size of a very large suitcase, if not a storage container.

Passport, deeds of house