yep, I live in NE Indiana, worst weather we get is Tornado's and the every 100yr flood that gets us 30ft ABOVE flood stage....and even then, living 3miles from the river like I do, a good 100ft above ANY flood plain, I dont have to worry about it. I dont have to go far to get to family either as the family stayed in 1 general spot(within 1mile of each other). And between my parents and I, plus my cousin and my grandparents we own just over 2000acres that we farm and 200-300acres of that is hunting ground(un-farmable/wooded/creek bottom)
I think we are good to go on just staying right where we are.....
But, if I had to have a BOV, Id go with the 67 GMC that we have as our farm truck. its a 3/4ton 4speed Manual 4x4. Its been in the family since it was new. We've used it to push over good sized trees, and to haul 1000 bushel grain wagons. Doesnt get the best of fuel mileage but its never let us down.
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What it looks like as of late is that each of these threads spawns into a new one. I would say that the decision to stay or go could be a separate thread altogether. This one is about leaving, and vehicle considerations, once we've decided to go.
1. In a survival situation I count on nobody but myself, this is not the military. People are flakey, that's a fact of life. Make plans that only include you and your very, very immediate family.
2. It's easier & safer to just stay in your home, buggin' out has a rather slim chance of success as there are so many variables.
3. Time to unsubscribe from these bugout threads...reading some of them is like watching a science fiction movie. I can already see Joe Schmoe at home spending half an hour to load all his guns and ammo into the Suburban while calling and trying to get a hold of the other 12 people all of which are in the same survival unit. Finally after everybody arrived 5 hours later, they need to load up the 800 pound survival pallet into the SUV or onto a trailer which would make getting around harder. Once everything is ready to go, they need to stop at a gas station because half the vehicles they have are running on empty. Once they finally get to the gas station, it is already closed because they ran out of gas...5 hours earlier they still would have had gas. Trying to find another gas station one of the vehicles has 2 flat tires but no big deal, they just use the spare on the vehicle and another similar sized spare from another vehicle....after a couple hundred miles if the vehicle which received the mix and match spare has limited slip, it will burn up the differential or mess up something else because of difference in tire size. Once they finally arrive at their bug-out location they hear in the radio that the Hurricane wasn't that bad after all but it doesn't matter as they NEED to Bug out for sure now because the Home traffic has every road jammed up. Good thing they loaded up all that gear!
Most of these threads either start out or end in the SHTF/total nuclear/zombie/alien attack/total break down of society, with an instant need to be armed like a seal team with your kids manning the sniper turrets while you load the vehicle so you can all make it to the promised land.
Great post Doc.
I got a suggestion to check these trailers out (Fills my needs currently).
http://www.jumpingjacktrailers.com/tent-trailer.cfm
I fail to see the point of towing a TENT! That is just a tent, but you have to tow it, WTF. I can understand towing a pop-up camper which has normal camper stuff in it but that thing is nothing more than a tent.
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