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.
Even living in the country, knowing the back roads routes is the way to go.
I used to live in Fulton NY, close enough to Nine Mile to keep alternate routes out of the area in the back of my mind.
The LAST route I would take out of an area is the interstate or major roads.
Yes, the back roads and side streets would be your best be.
Carrying fuel is ok but during an “event” there will be plenty of fuel around during the initial stages. Carry the means to transfer it. Make it a habit to never let your vehicles get below half a tank. Everything I have that would be bug out driveable has a 200 mile range on half a tank.
My friend’s daughter-in-law drove up from Florida during Irma. She carried gas cans in car. Felt she had no choice as supply was very undependable.
Anyone know the best/safest way to do that? Type of cap etc.