The best thing to do is beat feet out of the area before most people realize just what the implications of the emergency really and and go animal on you.
Honestly, I would think a bike would be your best bet for a quick retreat.
If you’ve got to reside in a metro for reasons of employment or family, reside on the periphery and know all the back roads and side streets, not to mention the unconventional routes not involving named thoroughfares. Primary exit routes will be clogged to the point of unusable if some major catastrophe is looming, witness attempted evacuations ahead of hurricanes over the past decade or so. It’s also important to know where you’re going. A vehicle that can function in a variety of less than ideal circumstances with a long range as far as fuel consumption is advisable. And, here comes a sort of silly sounding one but ponder it for a bit and it will make a great deal of sense: he who panics first panics best. Wait too long and you’re screwed, pardon the language.
And a good pair of boots as back-up.
“Honestly, I would think a bike would be your best bet for a quick retreat.”
I was actually thinking about that last week. Wondered if it would be useful in the BEGINNING of a breakdown, BEFORE anyone had time to think. After, it seems like you might be an easy target.
You’ll have about an hour, tops. If you’re lu.