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What's is your bug out bag?
11-25-12

Posted on 11/25/2012 3:37:35 PM PST by Indy Pendance

What's in your bug out bag? My eldest calls them Good bags, Get out of Dodge. My second daughter (see home page) calls it her apocalypse crate, a rubber maid container filled with all the stuff she'll need, and has it in her car. It has all her old army stuff that couldn't be returned. For example, gas masks, mre's etc.

Ours has the normal stuff, blankets, food, flashlights, water, clothes, fire, ammo, etc. It might be a good thread to have input, suggestions, what's good, what's frivolous.


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To: grumpygresh

>>I have heard of folks renting houses in remote areas as a way of having an alternative location w/o the expense of buying a house.<<

Two friends of mine each tried that, and both times the local meth-heads broke in and squatted while it was unoccupied. Tore it all to hell.


81 posted on 11/25/2012 5:31:11 PM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: onona

If you do it right...one is enough.


82 posted on 11/25/2012 5:32:37 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We are so screwed.)
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To: Roccus

At least we’re thinking about it. What’s your plan when the shtf, other and posting snarky comments online?


83 posted on 11/25/2012 5:33:31 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Roccus

At least we’re thinking about it. What’s your plan when the shtf, other than posting snarky comments online?


84 posted on 11/25/2012 5:34:03 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

My, “BOB” is a boat with sails.


85 posted on 11/25/2012 5:38:52 PM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Tijeras_Slim
One forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings.

I'm planning on having a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Major Kong approved.

86 posted on 11/25/2012 5:39:42 PM PST by Disambiguator (America chose...poorly.)
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To: servantboy777

Definitely a good idea. However, I prefer lidocaine, even though it is Rx.


87 posted on 11/25/2012 5:40:14 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: Indy Pendance
I'm semi-rural and have several good neighbors, so I'll bug in unless it's something like a tornado. Then, it'll be hell trying to convince the Mrs to leave the companion animals and farm animals.
I'd really like to build a root cellar for a situation like that, but the rocky ground won't permit it.
88 posted on 11/25/2012 5:41:15 PM PST by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: outofsalt

How cool is that? You won’t be out of salt then.


89 posted on 11/25/2012 5:41:26 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
i'm not going anywhere... i'll make my stand right here
90 posted on 11/25/2012 5:41:38 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Don’t be so adamant, we can go to Kentucky and hang out with Nicole Scherzinger.


91 posted on 11/25/2012 5:47:39 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Indy Pendance
I'm rural. I've got what I need. I'm stayin’ put. Neighbors and I know how to control the access to our hollow.

That comment should have been taken as more thought provoking than snarky.....

Do you really believe that you will be allowed free access to those back roads etc. by the locals? Don't expect it in my neck of the woods....ain't gonna happen.

When the SHTF, I hope it is ONLY your sensitivities that are hurt. Depending on the ability to move freely is a loser.

92 posted on 11/25/2012 5:47:39 PM PST by Roccus
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To: Sarajevo

We’re rural. Our neighbors are farmers. We know them well enough. We’re on the same page. We’ll be bugging in. I’d hate to live in a city, even suburbs, getting out will be a pita. We have a plan for our kids to head here. We can squeeze in 14 if need be. Our kids are all prepping.

We have an old fashion cellar for tornadoes. In a pinch, we could retro fit it for nuclear fallout. Have you seen the series “Jericho”? It’s pretty good. It’s on netflix.


93 posted on 11/25/2012 5:48:46 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: GraceG

agree with you. i aint running. too old. but prepared? oh yes.


94 posted on 11/25/2012 5:50:12 PM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Roccus

If you’d have read my posts you’d know where I stand.


95 posted on 11/25/2012 5:50:57 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

Takin’ my debit card and goin’ to Mexico. Their economy is improving and it’s real easy to get across the border;)


96 posted on 11/25/2012 5:53:01 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Indy Pendance

I read the advice you gave in post #18 and called BS on it.

Still do.


97 posted on 11/25/2012 5:53:10 PM PST by Roccus
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To: Mich Patriot

better to stay put. too quick stuff will be shut down, accidents will happen, traffic jams you won’t get anywhere. sorry. that is what happens in the best of times. hunkr down, at least being at home you have a reason to fight your home and land and people you care about. you get over the first hump and you’ve got a real chance to make it.


98 posted on 11/25/2012 5:53:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Beowulf9

I used to work in the interior of Mexico a lot. There is a lot of truth in your statement. Mexico isn’t just the border.


99 posted on 11/25/2012 5:55:03 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

Small boat, three kids. Might be a fate worse than death...


100 posted on 11/25/2012 5:55:11 PM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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