Bugout plans???

[clawhammerdan]

My wife and I have begun prepping for whatever is in store for humankind...and our goal is to make provisions for just the two of us that might keep us warm, dry, watered and fed for three months. After that, we can concentrate on providing additional provisions for our kids (and their kids). My question is as far as your bugout plans...How many people and for how long?

[RangerRick]

This topic has been beat to death in the past but it is always good to review.

Hopefully I'll bug in right here at the house place as this is where most of the gear is located. By way of tools that would be most every hand tool known to man as I've had years to collect. Cuttin torchs, welder, wenches, ATVs, tractor, disc, plow, box blade, generator, well, septic, criters, bass boat, motorcycles, garden & seed supply, 6 months of food & necessaries, 200 gal fuel and just a few guns & a small amount of ammo, 3 BOB's and the experience to use it all. I would be hard pressed to think of something I would need and not already have and I sure wouldn't want to try to move it but I do have a place down on a Texas lake that is rustic and fronts a protective cove but strictly a last resort.

It would take quite a force to move me off this property but there is always other options - Semper Paratus - Always Ready.

Rick

[tamilee]

Hi All;
I've got no bug out plans. I have no place to go and with the current price of gas I'll have to sit here, honker down and trust the Lord.
tamilee

[CarolAnn]

Clawhammerdan,
It depends on what the situation is. If it's something that requires I leave home, I've got a sister in the country about 55 miles from here, and I've found every back road route possible between here and there. She's got lots of garden & they can and put things by, so I'd pile what provisions I have into the car knowing that I can get there in an hour and be able to contribute.

If I stayed here, I have emergency provisions to last several months if I'm careful - and water filters, some provisions to cook and light without utilities, etc.

My worst case scenario would be prolonged & severe winter weather with no utilities; this rental place I live in has no provision for emergency non-utility heat such as propane or wood. I'd have to hunker in the smallest room and keep bundled up!

[Txanne]

Our family has a very secluded bug out spot---went to it when Rita Hit us and evac was Ordered.

Carol--we too made it a point to have every cow trail mapped in our minds---and that was testy---we forget in disaster situations the LEO's are going to be Telling us where and what we can/canot do!

Thats a boggie---and If there is any warnings at all--and you do bug out---Leave as early as possible--like yesterday.

You can be detained by the LEo---dumb but hey they have the authority----right?


Never again.

It was more dangerous running than it was staying.
Massive evacs are very dangerous--period.
be on guard---have your CC---and be alert.

Each of us has too make a plan---DONOT WAIT FOR THE ATHORITIES TO DO IT FOR YOU--

4 MILLON PEOPLE ON INT.45 was no picnic---people died just running.


txanne

[RangerRick]

Buggin out - it's never fun - but it's always nice to have someplace to go to. Semper Paratus.

Rick

[Txanne]

Rick,

Buggin out is never fun--correct---but trying to get there pass people that had plasma tv;s and no water was a hellish day for all.

We missed most of that--- ;D they didnt!!

annie

[Al_Coda]

Just recently moved from da city to a location down the street from my old bugout cottage. Now that cottage is the guest house. Can't see having to bugout from our current location except maybe for a forest fire. We're the bugout destination for family/friends still living in the city 4 hours away, although they might have only heard the term 'bugout' in a M*A*S*H rerun....

Still have our bugout bags just in case, they are a little lighter now since I moved stuff from them to the vehicle bags (getting stranded in a very remote area is now more of a possibility). In all likelihood if forced to bugout from the house(s), we'd probably be staying in a nearby motel :)

[Txanne]

CODA--You remind me of something.

Cars----I keep a spare serpentine belt--oil--anti-freeze
tire changing gear---oil---behind the seat of my truck.

When I change my belt out--I put the old one behind the seat----theres enough life in it for an Er.

We can't forget the mode of transportation.

Durning a crisis--is no time for oil changes---bad batteries---or bald tires.

I had to replace all 4 tires after the Hurricane--flats you wouldnt believe fron debris---sheeting nails and screws.

Most we couldn't see on the rode---And it takes alot from my budget--I never ever buy cheap tires---at the moment I have 800.00 worth of off road tires.
Expensive--perhaps--but I can go where I need to go with them.

WE must stop thinking just for today---disasters dont shedule appointments.

annie

[RangerRick]

Annie, tks for jogging my memory. I had fogotten I'd pulled my fix-a-flat and tire plug repair kit out of the truck so I just ran out to the barn and put it back in the tool box.

;D

Rick

[Ernie]

I'm activating my bug-out plan now. Getting the Heck out of the city and moving to the country.

Beyond that, I hope I can manage to stay put where I'm at, but if it comes to being moved on then we've got portable food and weapons and the clothes we need. We could leave and not come back and be alright until we set up in a new spot. That new spot has yet to be chosen. Can't afford to maintain a second property somewhere right now. Maybe in the future. Someplace between two mountains with no road and no access. Park the car on the highway, walk in, and never spare a moment's worry for what might be going on back in what passes for civilization.

[Txanne]

Annie, tks for jogging my memory. *I had fogotten I'd pulled my fix-a-flat and tire plug repair kit out of the truck so I just ran out to the barn and put it back in the tool box.

;D

Rick


Your welcome---Got one of those plug kits --a cig lighter type air pump and a can of fix-flat too--but I have to take the fixa flat out in the summer---black truck---too hot---blow can up!! ;D

Those cig plugs work--slowlyyyyyyyyyy--but hey it works.

Throw a box of baking soda in there---cleans stuff--battery cables etc--and works on sun burns sour tummies etc etc.

annie

[Txanne]

I'm activating my bug-out plan now. Getting the Heck out of the city and moving to the country.

Beyond that, I hope I can manage to stay put where I'm at, but if it comes to being moved on then we've got portable food and weapons and the clothes we need. We could leave and not come back and be alright until we set up in a new spot. That new spot has yet to be chosen. Can't afford to maintain a second property somewhere right now. Maybe in the future. Someplace between two mountains with no road and no access. Park the car on the highway, walk in, and never spare a moment's worry for what might be going on back in what passes for civilization.


Ernie---Good luck with that----there's nothing like your own place in the wilds---lived there for 10 years---God I wish I was back there.

And good to have you on the forum.

txanne

[Uncle_Alvah]

Hopefully I'll bug in right here at the house place as this is where most of the gear is located. *

Indeed.
Can be tough logisticaly and dangerous physically if one tries to transport a fair amount of gear to another location. Few have a place to go to where food, tools, ammo and such can be left safe and secure unless the go-to place has a continual human presence in the form of a family member or someone similar.
The buck that lays low without moving around much is the buck most likely to survive hunting season, if you follow my analogy.....

[Funkhouser]

I have enough gear in the trunk of the car to last the three of us (me, wife and son) for several days...water, bare necessities food-wise, first aid and other provisions. One large bug-out bag keeps everything centrally located in case TSHTF, and a smaller BUBOB (back-up bug-out bag) for those not-so-bare essentials is quite nice, too. We have an evac route out of the Charlotte metro area as well, and it sure isn't where local govt. would have us go ::)

[Txanne]

Indeed.
Can be tough logisticaly and dangerous physically if one tries to transport a fair amount of gear to another location. Few have a place to go to where food, tools, ammo and such can be left safe and secure unless the go-to place has a continual human presence in the form of a family member or someone similar.
The buck that lays low without moving around much is the buck most likely to survive hunting season, if you follow my analogy.....



I subscribe to that also!!

Hiding in plain site--is an art form.

And Claire Wolf --has the best book on that.

Good luck

annie

[Al_Coda]

I subscribe to that also!!

Hiding in plain site--is an art form.

And Claire Wolf --has the best book on that.

Good luck

annie

Ditto, and same for what Uncle_A had to say too.

Use to live somewhat south of Detroit, and the bugout cottage was 4 hours north of the city. While I had alternate routes already planned out, the dilemma was always WHEN to bugout? First hint of trouble would likely mean a lot of false alarms a long ride home, and a very upset wife. A couple minutes too late might mean stuck in traffic with the sheeple, and a very upset wife (there's just no winning sometimes...).

I decided SIP was the way to go, unless safety required us to bugout. A 4X8 sheet of plywood was set aside specifically for the "OCCUPIED AND ARMED - U LOOT, WE SHOOT" sign.