Bugging out??

[williejc]

Using Texas as the example, I point to the chaos and disorder during Hurricane Ike. Narrow the example to the Houston/Galveston area and 100 miles east and west of this area. Mass evacuations north resulted in traffic jams over an entire region. Nothing moved.

Interstate highways and excellent farm to market roads are direct avenues from cities to rural areas. In fan situations, hordes from the cities will soon appear looking for food, shelter, gas, alcohol, drugs, and weapons.

So, where do you go and what will you do when you get there?

When Katrina evacuees arrived in Texas and Mississippi, they created an instant crime wave. Many stayed.

[flyfishnevada]

Katrina sent people all over the country, many on public assistance and many of them stayed. Beat going back to NO with no place to live but a FEMA trailer. Some were just looking to start over but some were bad actors.

Depending on the storm, you're specific location, etc. Stay put. Let the rest of them take off to go find shelter. If you're truly concerned about safety and survival, you should already live in an are that's typically free from flooding (high ground), right?

If a storm is bearing down on you and you feel the need to leave, hurricanes usually are nice enough to give advance warning. Leave early. Take you vacation days, pull out the stash of emergency money, pack some clothes and go on vacation. You're home will survive or it won't whether you're in Vegas or you're in a shelter. You're demolished home isn't going anywhere while you're sunning on a beach for a few days in Hawaii.

Maybe that's extreme, but who says you have to leave with the herd and you can only go so far. Leave early or not at all if it's safe. Go beyond the next safe haven to some place nice, get a room, sit by the pool and wait it out.

Obviously, sudden tornadoes and earthquakes aren't so nice as to give warning. In that case, stay put if you can or have a back up place to go if home is suddenly rubble. My thought is if you can't bug in, bug out away from the rest of humanity in any case instead of competing locally for limited essentials.

[Vash1023]

Katrina sent people all over the country, many on public assistance and many of them stayed. Beat going back to NO with no place to live but a FEMA trailer. Some were just looking to start over but some were bad actors.

Depending on the storm, you're specific location, etc. Stay put. Let the rest of them take off to go find shelter. If you're truly concerned about safety and survival, you should already live in an are that's typically free from flooding (high ground), right?

If a storm is bearing down on you and you feel the need to leave, hurricanes usually are nice enough to give advance warning. Leave early. Take you vacation days, pull out the stash of emergency money, pack some clothes and go on vacation. You're home will survive or it won't whether you're in Vegas or you're in a shelter. You're demolished home isn't going anywhere while you're sunning on a beach for a few days in Hawaii.

Maybe that's extreme, but who says you have to leave with the herd and you can only go so far. Leave early or not at all if it's safe. Go beyond the next safe haven to some place nice, get a room, sit by the pool and wait it out.

Obviously, sudden tornadoes and earthquakes aren't so nice as to give warning. In that case, stay put if you can or have a back up place to go if home is suddenly rubble. My thought is if you can't bug in, bug out away from the rest of humanity in any case instead of competing locally for limited essentials.

great advice,

only thing i would like to add is, make sure your prepairing for the worst possible scenario.
katrina was a great example of how "quickly" "help" will come to "save" you.