Posted on 04/19/2012 4:44:54 PM PDT by blam
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I’d rather stand my ground than hide or flee if the so called SHTF ever. Should we be cowards or Americans?
Case in point:
The Los Angeles Fire Department is on record as saying that after the inevitable mega-quake in SoCal, it expects the resulting fires in urban areas to rage out of control for weeks.
Anyone in the way of the fires will have to bug-out or burn in their homes.
Same here. Sticking close to trusted friends, neighbors and relatives in Hooterville.
I pretty much agree. My primary bug out plan is to bug in. We’re in a semi-rural area, our home has almost everything we need for a year, and we have enough neighbors that we know and like that we feel secure. Our secondary plan is to bug out to a neighbor’s home. He’s a farmer with a fair amount of land, I’ve shot with him, helped him with home and tractor repairs, and known him for a couple decades. His secondary plan is to come to my home. That’s as far as I’m planning on going - 1/2 mile in my backup plan.
Note: I know that the situation is different in an urban area, but even then I would want to be aiming for a specific address where I know the people, not a hypothetical mountain with my rifle and a plan to go hunting.
I go hunting every year, and see lot of meals on the hoof; but my license only permits a buck with certain antler dimensions, so I take nothing. Were I in a survival mode, there would be many meals. I hunt for the joy of being out in nature, not for the joy of killing.
Gunner
Aren't all Americans descended from people that bugged out?
(American Indians excluded)
Bugging out can also mean leaving your suburban home and going to your shelter that is much more defensible and better prepared.
I’m looking for an excuse to trade around for a good sailboat that can be brought up to shape for circumnavigation.
I first became aware of a possible economic collapse during the Carter administration. I had a wife and young child.
I had thought about what to do and decided I would take my family and move to my parents farm. They no longer farmed except for a large garden but both my parents had grown up in a time when they literally existed with very little dependence on the outside world.
My Mother had grown up on a 1000 plus acre farm so in a way that was way different from making a living on a small acreage. Still both of them knew how to grow their own produce, slaughter and preserve their own meat etc. I can actually remember when we had a smokehouse and how great it smelled inside it.
Now, my wife is deceased and my Daughter and her family live a thousand miles away. I am too old to live in the woods etc. I simply would stay home and do the best I can. I do have plenty of everything except food. Water is no problem here. I guess I really do need to stock up on at least a few months supply of staple groceries which store well.
I have persuaded my Daughter and SIL to stock up on groceries. They are moderately well to do and can afford to get about anything they want. I think telling her to do so to protect their children was the deciding factor.
Will you take us in if we make it to Petticoat Junction?
Rent “Waterworld” and get a look at that plan.
I’ve already come to the realization that if this were come into being, I would most likely not survive. At the very least, I’d lose all of my possessions and financial well-being.
But I’ve had a good life, and I recall our founders were in even greater peril, yet stood for their convictions. I’ve been preparing for this day since the second plane hit the towers. Why? In that moment, I flashed forward 10 years, and knew this country might disintegrate. Besides, what better place would there be to go too??
I’m staying, and if necessary, fighting. And my extended family feels the same way.
I’ll talk it over with uncle Joe.
Plenty of food/water in my pantry. Enough for me to go about 30 - 40 days. Well-stocked and diverse collection of defensive “tools and toys”. If the SHTF event requires more than that...
“Aren’t all Americans descended from people that bugged out? “
If you go South you will get deported to either Guatemala or California. If you go North you’ll run into people who almost chose a man to be Miss Canada.
Is that land bridge across the Bering straight still open?
Hold until relieved
Yippy Chi Alpha! :)
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