"Bug Out" Route/alt routes

[hunter63]

Something like this might wake up some people.

Flooding in the west end of our county cut 4 out of about 8 "get out of town" routes.
I wanted to check out our "Place" on the west side of Wi, only to really have think about just getting there. With road closing from flooding, trees down, mud slides, construction.

Mind you, gas stations were open, most roads were at least passable after a week from the "Big One rain storm" But..............

If it were a for real SHTF, have you all planned your route out to were ever you want to go?

P.S. Our "Place" was high and dry, but the small towns on our river were pretty much wiped out, still was a challange getting there.

My Hay field:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/PICT0480.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/PICT0481.jpg

[oldnndway]

When hurricane Rita came to my hometown we had to head out all of a sudden like.

The ONLY thing that saved us having to sit in a long pile up of traffic for hours was my familiarity of roads two counties west of here.

Traveling west we had to cross the Houston / Golden Triangle evacuation traffic three times, once at US-69 then US-59 and again at I-45.
At both US-69 and US-59 the law officers directing traffic forbade us to continue west (telling us our route, US-287, was closed down)and ordered us to fall into the northbound traffic flow.
We did so until the next lefthand road came up, then we turned back west and got back to US-287 to continue to my daughters home in Waco.

At each crossing there were cars and trucks (literally) as far as you could see in either direction.

It is very good advice to get to know ALL of your escape routes (whether you have a destination in mind or not) ... you never know what hand you will be dealt and how you will be required to play it.

...and sometimes all of your plans go out the window and you just have to improvise.
At times like that it is good to know your way "around".

[Txanne]

OLD and I had the same hurricane--Rita---as it happened--we had some oil field roads--cow trails to follow--


I have formed the opinon--I will not run again---the danger from the masses and the sheer numbers of said masses--were more dangerous than the hurricane.

Flooding does present its separate danger however---If you know that much water is coming--run of course--

Water from the levies breaking caused the deaths in NO-[[indirectly]]

People in the greater Houston area paniced--they left before they were suppose too--or waited too late--

You cannot stop water or wind----I do believe its problematic to the area you live in---tornadoes are sneaky and you can be asleep before you know their on you--

You can plan---BUT always remember --the best laid plans of mice and men---can be altered by Mother Nature--quickly and all your routes can be closed suddenly.

Txanne

[edward_4576]

Took a while to find this thread but I wanted to post this properly. When planning a bug out route you need to keep a lot of things in mind. I found a website today that would be valuable in determining a bug out route.

http://www.saferoadmaps.org/maps/index.htm

[TNDadx4]

Although, I won't run from where we live, I do have multiple alternate plans out of where I work. I have two routes East of town, three routes West of town and as a last ditch, I have a route planned to walk along the railroad tracks, then small, country roads to our place (too much survival fiction...lol).

[DavidOH]

That's how I want to look at a place.

How does it look under the worst of conditions.
If you are high and dry after a bad stom, then it's more likely that you will STAY dry through all of them.

Same for winter. If the roads are passible after that big snow storm, then you can probably get there at any time.

[walls0stone]

that's a big laugh around here with local people..they come to the place on summer break, buy the house in July...and when the snow flys..they find out why we have the cars we have, and that you get snow tires in Oct...not the day it snows.

[Catalpa]

What I'm seeing is people buying low, wet land, without knowing it. They come up from the city and see this piece of land for sale cheap, and they don't have the sense to realize they're looking at a piece of swamp. We've had a run of six or seven droughty years, and the land isn't as wet as it will be.....can't tell 'em nothing, though.

A lot of this land is along the river, and heaven help them if they have to get out in a hurry, since there's only two bridges in a fourteen mile stretch.

[hunter63]

The subject was to research alternate routes TO/FROM the "Place", but your points are well taken as far as the actual piece of land.

The pic's above are in a "flood plane", and it is not build-able.
If the level of the flooding ever gets as high as the house, ya'll better be building an Ark.

But I have seen other partials for sale, with no mention of where the flood plane started.

I have also seen a lot of people as y'all mentioned, actually buy the land, only to find out they couldn't build on it, or that utilities were so far away that a the cost would be 3 times what the land went for.

Actually confronted the realtor about it on one piece, and had them drag out the map.
River front property, 8 acres, at the time $16K, ($2000 per acre).
At the most there was about 1/4 acre that was build-able, (next to the road) and of course there was also "set back" rules.

Point is, to select your place with knowledge, be cold and calculating, after all it will be yours good or bad.
Don't get hung up of the "Oh, it looks so pretty, lets's buy it!"
This is the subject of a whole lot of other threads.

[DavidOH]

MSN:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?wip=2&v=2&rtp=~&FORM=MSNH

Safe Roads (Google Earth):
http://www.saferoadmaps.org/maps/index.htm

Yahoo:
http://maps.yahoo.com/

AAA:
http://www.aaa.com/AAA_Travel/AAAMaps/aaa_map.htm

MapQuest:
http://www.mapquest.com/

RandMcnally:
http://www.randmcnally.com/

National Geographic:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/maps

U.S. Geological Survey:
http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(layout=6_1_61_48&uiarea=2&ctype=catalogEntry&care a=%24ROOT)/.do


Most State websites have maps
and counties:
http://madisonoh.ddti.net/auditor/iview/


any others?