To begin with - move the HE*L out of the city NOW. Then you’ll have a fighting chance of survival.
Play all the tied rags and piles of flour you want - if TSHTF, you are going to cross paths with others trying to get out too = others determined to survive - and that well might mean taking whatever YOU have.
Think of a big freighter going down - picture all the rats scurrying to escape...running over one another.
The city has ALWAYS been the place NOT to get caught in when the hammer comes down. It wont be just others trying to esacape and others looking to rob them, but the cities will go under immediate lock down and there will be curfews. Anyone caught skulking around after curfew is also the target of the law - or what will pass for law.
So if you DO manage to get out of the city - then what? Do you have friends where y ou are going? ARe you especting they should give y ou safe haven - and food? ARe you KNOWN where you are going? Strangers in small towns, villages, farm lands, are going to stick out like sore thumbs.
You will run out of food in 2-3 days. What then?
Better, maybe, to take all your prep time in getting out of the city BEFORE you think you need too - if things go bad in Nov., you may already be too late.
“To begin with - move the HE*L out of the city NOW”
Correct!
I’m out of the city, but we still need to know every rock and tree and bend of the stream because we WILL have to fight marauders FROM the city. There are abandoned strip mines and a myriad of caves up here that will prove very handy in such cases.
Correct on all counts. We are for all intents and purposes already ‘bugged out’. It meant a significant alteration of lifestyle and a reduction in income, but we’re making do. The one thing you can’t buy is time in community - time to get to know folks. Who you can trust, who you can’t. Who your friends are and who’s going have to be dealt with when the time comes.
Our biggest concern is water. We’re on a local community well, but there’s no plan to guard, fuel and defend the well head. Not good. And it’s getting way too late in the game.