[bgill]

To me, prepping would count on getting the H out of Dodge in a moments notice.

Getting out of one Dodge is merely heading to another Dodge. Leaving your known Dodge and going to someone else's unknown Dodge? No thanks. But different strokes.

[Marcella]

“Getting out of one Dodge is merely heading to another Dodge. Leaving your known Dodge and going to someone else’s unknown Dodge?”

You are right about that. If the disaster is country wide, then there is no better place to go to. It is normal behavior to think “this is so bad here, another place would have to be better”, so off they go to another bad place which is actually worse if they are unfamiliar with the area and have no place to stay.

[AlexW]

“Getting out of one Dodge is merely heading to another Dodge. Leaving your known Dodge and going to someone else’s unknown Dodge? No thanks.”
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Just think where you might be if the founding fathers had thought like that ;)