I had to be in downtown Chicago the other day for a business meeting. I drove my Durango. There’s construction in the Loop right where the Eisenhower expressway begins. I had to drive about ten blocks to reach it.
It was the middle of the afternoon and nothing extraordinary was happening. It took me 45 minutes to move that ten blocks. I keep a Go bag in my truck, just in case.
I offer this just to say that if you’re caught in a major city when the SHTF don’t be under any illusions that you’ll be able to jump in your truck and drive out. Cities will be death traps for folks who,try to do so.
I’ve given a couple of urban FReepers my address and phone number with a promise of a safe place to stay in the short term in the event of it all going to crap.
I have a former coworker who traveled a lot for work, easily three weeks a month away from home (Chicago was a common stop, we had a major office there). He would FedEx his 72 hour bag to the hotel ahead of wherever he was traveling as you really can’t carry one on a plane. His bag would be waiting in his hotel room when he got there and he would keep it in his rental car.