Why leave or "bug out" ???

[jerrymrc]

The point of this thread was to exolore that option that I rarely if ever see. My own planning looks a little more like this.

1. Asses the nature and magnitude of event.
2. If I can stay put and keep my kids/me safe I stay.
3. If I can join up with a known group of like minded people go.
4. Have trailer (well stocked at all times) will move to higher ground.
5. If all i can take is go bags and a couple guns God help me Im roughing it. Put it in 4 wheel drive and get to really high ground.
6. If all else fails and its that bad lead trumps gold. I do what I have to do to keep mine safe.

I look at as many different scenarios as possible. My wife will tell you my mind is racing all the time with what ifs. What if I do get that great job and we can put away for the kids college. What if I do have to draw my gun in this place or that place. What if God forbid I do have to protect my family from "friends" when the SHTF. I just like looking at it all and having an idea of what to do. keeps me from becoming a mindless drooling leming.That is why we have go bags in all vehicles. Trailer is always stocked. I have food and supplies for 4of us for 9 months comfy and a year if we thin it a bit. I have rifles to hunt with to suppliment our stored food and to trade with because someone will be hungry and have something i need. But I try to look at as much as I can. Not just go bags and guns. What will I be using to get there. A honda civic or a 4x4 diesel that can run on bio fuel or transmission fluid if need be. Some call it paranoid. I call it being as prepared as possible. I wear a seat belt in my car just in case I am in an accident. I carry a firearm just in case someone tries to harm me and mine. I prep for SHTF just in case I have to protect mine from the liberal idiots that thought the government will be there to protect them when it gets ugly.

I have lots of questions and few answers when it comes to this stuff. But I try to stay a few steps ahead of the masses that will be crying for mama If it ever really happens. That said I pray we all get to play with our toys until we pass on from old age. May we never have to use them for any of these scenarios. But if we do may we all shoot straighter and be far me prepared than the rest.

Thoughts (and this has been brought up just not easy to find)

Any thought of leaving ones home requires much thought and preparation unless one has the site stocked and ready to go.

Once you have you home set up with supplies and everything else to last a year then you can turn to thinking about leaving.

Start simple and work up. Having a good and diversified pantry is a start. you also need ways to prepare these things. Water, Food, heat, light, communications and the list goes on.

Take one step at a time. Want to have some fun? throw your main circuit breaker some day and see how long it takes before the family goes nuts. Like I said one step at a time. One more thing. Colorado is a different ball game than other locations. That is one of the main reasons this forum is here. What works in Texas (and the priority's) change when you get here.

You start at home and work it up from there.

[2008f450]

Thoughts (and this has been brought up just not easy to find)

Any thought of leaving ones home requires much thought and preparation unless one has the site stocked and ready to go.

Once you have you home set up with supplies and everything else to last a year then you can turn to thinking about leaving.

Start simple and work up. Having a good and diversified pantry is a start. you also need ways to prepare these things. Water, Food, heat, light, communications and the list goes on.

Take one step at a time. Want to have some fun? throw your main circuit breaker some day and see how long it takes before the family goes nuts. Like I said one step at a time. One more thing. Colorado is a different ball game than other locations. That is one of the main reasons this forum is here. What works in Texas (and the priority's) change when you get here.

You start at home and work it up from there.

Pretty much have them covered. Number 3 on my plans list is the only one not set up yet. In CA that one was easy. I had the land and family would fall back to my place with their trailers and help protect it. Here I dont have family so its something to explore. And we do test ourselves from time to time. We have gone with "lights and water out" scenarios for 2-5 days to see how we cope. I take my pack and go into the hills for 48 hours to see how well the things in my pack and my skills work. Alternate ways of travel have been mapped out and driven with trailer to see how it would go. Its an ongoing thing for me. The one thing I see from time to time I question is when I see people say "i will go to walmart and stock up when it gets bad". To me its too late at that point. And walmart is last place I want to be. IF i had to go stock up anywhere when It happens Im going to the pharmacy and stock up on meds and such.