Posted on 01/19/2013 3:23:13 PM PST by blam
The Fallacy Of Bugging Out – Are You Prepared To Be A Refugee?
A Wal-Mart store might be a good bug-in place if a person were well enough “prepared”.
You want to do whatever puts the most distance between you and the cops.
to me, bugging-out means getting away from the population centers and get to your bug-in prepared location
Dear Lord, it sucks, though. A lot.
I'd rather be home with my tools, my stuff, my neighbors, etc...
If a tornado flattens the house, I'll put up a tarp and still stay here and go through the remains to rebuild.
/johnny
Well, if that’s the case, my son is dead. Hell, I’m dead. And so is my mother.
May as well pack it all in now.
In a government-controlled disaster, the highways will be closed and guarded, while media messages will all be “stay calm and stay at home”.
A great propaganda film is “Our Cities Must Fight”, although it’s a 60’s film, it shows the current policy of keeping roads clear for emergency responders. That means National Guard at intersections and entrance ramps. It’s on archive.org
If you are going to bug out, you are going to have to do it well before the hurricane (easy) or tornado (not so easy) or chlorine tank rupture.
Another good strange video is “Shelter in place”, designed for folk who live near chemical weapons repositories.
How is that different than the SOP?
/johnny
Do not bug out unless you have a retreat to go to. You will just die out in the woods.
My plan was always to hunker-down. If I need to bug-out, it’ll be to my dad’s. He’s close, but remote enough to be unbothered, and he has the woodstove and plenty of land for gardening, plus beef cattle. We’ve talked about it in a what-if sort of way, but it’s funny that even though he doesn’t buy into the prepper thing and doomsday scenarios, he’s certainly more prepared than I am.
It wasn’t mentioned as the SOP in the article. It needs to be said for those who are young and/or still learning.
I've always "Hunkered Down", but the day isn't over.
"Bugging Out" might be a viable option.
This sounds smart, but I'm not sure about the naked part. Seems kind of vulnerable.
Just sayin'.........!
And study your maps for alternate routes, like dust road alternatives.
Be sure to have the routes planned in place for whichever direction the bad stuff is coming from.
Me too. I've told the wife that whatever disaster strikes the home - even fire - there are still going to be things we can salvage from the wreckage to survive. And I think we'd do better in familiar surroundings.
In a city during a total collapse, some of a prepper’s neighbors would thin themselves out by moving to join family or by moving to government camps.
A prepper would have his own supplies, plus be able to supplement them with whatever the government distributes, also, there is just incredible amounts of salvageable goods and materials in a city, and in abandoned homes, for instance I have access to filthy water, and with a few boards, some caulking, and a couple of window panes and some pvc pipe, I would have all of the pure water I need from my permanent solar stills.
Depending on the lay of the land, and slope, and where the manhole covers are, I might even have a flush toilet.
Fruit trees are abundant, car batteries, rummaged batteries and bullets, all kinds of goodies are in city dwellings and abandoned second cars, depending on how road warrior things got.
I like the idea of being in my regular living space, that is one reason that I am prepared. Those who can afford retreats or who live on one already, well, that is also their home.
Ideally I would have a special fort in the woods somewhere, but in real life I’m fine where I am, something that everyone (rural and city) needs to consider though, is how vulnerable are they to out of control fires if the system breaks down?
Washington, DC, East of the Anacostia? :-)
I view a SHTF situation not as a catastrophe but rather as a reset. Most preppers along with many conservatives with just a basic work ethic will survive. However, the government dependency crowd will be gone in a month and the FEDS will not lift a finger to protect them. They want them gone as well(but would never say it publicly).
You will not find people who will welcome you or share their food with you. You will be made to keep moving with the rest of the refugees by what ever local law enforcement still exists. They do not want you to stay they will push you through their area so you become someone else’s problem. The folks who live out in the country will be forted up, dug in, and well prepared for hungry and thirsty thieves.
Living off the land is not going to happen, period. As stated in other places here it will be survival of the fittest, the meanest, and the one that will pull the trigger first.
In the western states most of the deer and elk herds migrate seasonally so if you are going to depend on them for food you are going to have to know where they are and how to get to them. Their migrations range from 60 to 100 miles twice a year. Good luck with that.
Prepare, fort up, keep you head down, your mouth shut and stay home. Do not tell everyone you know how prepared you are or they will be knocking down your door when they get hungry. One thing that everyone needs to understand is that you will have only what you are willing to protect so make up your mind that your safety and ability to survive are your responsibility. Even if you do all of theses things there are no guarantees that you will make it through all the crap but you stand a lot better chance of staying alive and protecting your family.
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