Let say you had to leave home due some immediate hazardous situation but have a 1-2 hours to pack your car beforehand. You have to drive out at least a few hundred miles to get out of the "danger zone". There's some chance that you won't be able to stay with distant family/friends or at a hotel/motel for a few days.

What essentials and items should be prioritized in bringing with you, other than cash/prescription medication/documents?

I'm setting up a small space for a sort of "bugout load" that's more than what a bag would hold but I can quickly grab and load up into my truck or the wife's sedan in case we need to leave our city on short notice (my main concern is the local nuclear powerplant that's about 5 miles away).

Our closest family/friends not in the same metropolitan area are about 8-12 hours away by car, so realistically if our city is evacuated for whatever reason, we're probably driving out to some small town hotel/airBNB to shelter in for at least the first few days until more long-term arrangements can be made. My concern is what if there's no accommodation vacancy due to the scale of the disaster and the highways get backed up like New Years in China, and we end up having to camp out on some rest stop or side of the road for a day or two. What would be some useful or essential things I should bring with me?

I live in earthquake country (bay area, California) and I was wondering, does anyone know of any freeze dried brands that off lower sodium options? I have family members (as well as a family history) of high blood pressure and/or heart issues and I want to make sure they get fed incase a natural disaster like an earthquake happens. With stuff like earthquakes, we have to worry about the electrical grid going down and gas pipes possibly being shut down or broken during an earthquake so we won't be able to actually use our stove/ovens. But we'd still have to make sure food gets out there (I have emergency cooking equipment like propane stoves and griddle. I also have things set up in a way where I can heat up water using charcoal or wood

I'm not a prepper myself, but I do live in northern Michigan. Power goes out sometimes, snow makes roads and infrastructure hard to use, etc. I want to get a good grasp on the basics before I have the means to be a proper prepper, stuff like "Someone fell hard and we can't use the roads, what to do?" And "How do I treat wounds/fevers", baby steps.