Personally, if Cripplecreek doesn’t come through [pretty please], I have a plan to make it into one of the MANY land reserves in MI. I’d rather deal with a ranger than roving bands of hungry EBT eaters.
The one thing that everyone has to remember is that if it really does hit the fan, you won’t be able to use highways and most likely won’t have that much gas. We have to be able to get to our spot with one tank, pulling a camper.
Sometimes it’s actually better to hunker down where you are and look deserted. Break a few windows and throw some trash around your house, then sit tight until travel is safe. I know that the people across the street are armed to the hilt and duck hunters. They are accurate. We will team up with them.
I’m putting together some maps to get to places where we can sit for a day, if need be. If we travel at night our odds of getting anywhere are better. At that point, we will have three drivers and four people. We can sleep in shifts.
We have plotted out location #1, for short term, and location #2, for a real TEOTWAWKI - and can get to both on one tank of gas. A big tank, I grant you - 600 miles worth.
Don’t need highways for either.
Of course, the best laid plans o’mice and men...
There’s definitely some major advantages to hunkering down in these small towns. Everyone knows everyone else in town and in the surrounding towns, there’s security of numbers, we’re surrounded by farms, forests and swamps.
I'm afraid that traveling after TSHTF will be deadly. IMO, you could be ambushed around every corner.
You're going to have to gamble now and make those preparations before TSHTF.
Certainly you're familiar with the concept of "Devil's Night".
Even if your house looks like it contains nothing of value, there are those who will burn it "just for fun".