u'll have to bugout, all aboveground buildings are easy to find and approach/take out. they will be searched for goodies again and again, and shooting at people just convinces them that you have stuff worth taking. I"ll bugout, but not very far. Just to the local water source and woods surrounding it, to the concealed spiderhole and the cached food there. Nobody is going to see me for a year, if shtf. Use the cover of the spiderhole to dig the horizontal shelter and shore it up (shoring cached nearby) with 18" of dirt overhead. Enough that driving a tile spade into the ground won't find the hole, nor will raid soften it enough that a man's weight will collapse it, but not enough weight or material over my head to trap or smother me if it collapses. Any man can make the concealing "lid" for the spiderhole, excavate and scatter/hide the dirt, in one night. 2 ft square by 4 ft deep. After you dive into it, dig out the little hole for your feet, so that you can sit in it comfortably. If anyone, pre shtf, finds your spiderhole, what would make them think that it amounts to a damn, hmm? They are most unlikely to return to it, post shtf. They won't know about the nearby concealed digging tools or shoring materials, or the concealed drums of food. So the area is just another hunk of woods.
Will you shelter in place or bugout ?
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I hope to hunker down. This is why we moved out to the country and set up our operation. We have electricity, yet when it goes, we are still going to make it, if supplies and resources are the major issues. It is my opinion that if at all possible, the life you expect to live should be close to the life you now live. If you are already use to heating with wood and raising your own food when the time comes to execute your Apocalypsis plan the is little change. I realize that Bugging out could be necessary, and we are working on that, but I think that the odds are fair to good that we will be hunkered down.
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Nice place you have!Hi folks, I am a long time off grid homesteader, survivalist and author and I am curious if people are planning to shelter in place in an emergency or do you have a bug out plan ?
Without going into personal detail where would you go in a national emergency or disaster that forces you to leave your home and are you preparing for that ?
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I plan to bug in. we live in a rural area and own about 40 acres of land. That's wooded and non wooded. I plan to start gardening once it warms up, why not save some grocery money? I'd like some livestock, such as ducks (for eggs), goats (for milk), and a horse (mainly for transportation and the fun of riding) but my dad isn't too big into getting farm animals.. He doesn't want to deal with the work that's involved, so I suppose I will have to wait until I have a house of my own.
My boyfriend plans to build a home within a couple years and we already plan to live together. So at least then I'll be able to prep as I please
He has chickens and is getting ducks in the spring, he also wants to get goats too. He also says he wouldn't mind if I got a horse either haha.Someone said you have a YouTube? What is your user name?
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If a city is zapped real bad by some bigtime disaster, the power and water will be off, but at least the ruins will provide shelter from the elements, and we can live off our water/food stocks for a while-
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And monitor news broadcasts (if there are any) on our battery radio-
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But when our food/water runs out, and if there's no prospect of government relief convoys, we'll HAVE to get out of the city, my tent is my 'bugout location'-
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and can be set up anywhere, preferably near a river for all the drinking water and fish i'll need, and near woods teeming with game.
That's the theory anyway, I can't fish or hunt for toffee (sniffle)
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At least when the first fingers of winter frosts begin creeping across the landscape we could move into some deserted property to stay warmer-
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Not bad, just light a few candles and you'd never know the world had ended outside..
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And monitor news broadcasts (if there are any) on our battery radio-
But when our food/water runs out, and if there's no prospect of government relief convoys, we'll HAVE to get out of the city, my tent is my 'bugout location'-
and can be set up anywhere, preferably near a river for all the drinking water and fish i'll need, and near woods teeming with game.
That's the theory anyway, I can't fish or hunt for toffee (sniffle)
At least when the first fingers of winter frosts begin creeping across the landscape we could move into some deserted property to stay warmer-
Not bad, just light a few candles and you'd never know the world had ended outside..
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I don't really have a choice. We will be staying here. I could go to the mountains of Colorado, I still have friends there but that is a 13 hour normal drive from here. In a shtf scenario, I seriously doubt if we could make it. I would really like to be farther out of town but the finances won't allow it right now. We are debt free and want to stay that way. We are in our 60's and hiking out is not a good option for us with no real place to head.
I have been prepping for a long time. Doing most of this by myself it has been a lot of trial and error. My wife was anti gun until we were in a situation where it looked like we needed one. I pulled out a revolver I had hidden and put in on my lap. She was glad I had it and now she is ok with it. She thought preppers were crazy until I finally convinced her to think about it differently. In our area we are prone to tornado's. We also have the occasional ice storm and thunderstorms that knock out power. After watching on the news how bad people can have it, we now have 3-6 months food and water supply depending on how much of her family shows up. Like many people I know, she thinks the current situation will work itself out. It always has before so why should now be different.
I am working on getting her to think about a place in the country. I don't know if I can do this but even if I can convince her it will be farther in the future when we can afford it.
If the mob's want my stuff, it will cost them dearly.
I have been prepping for a long time. Doing most of this by myself it has been a lot of trial and error. My wife was anti gun until we were in a situation where it looked like we needed one. I pulled out a revolver I had hidden and put in on my lap. She was glad I had it and now she is ok with it. She thought preppers were crazy until I finally convinced her to think about it differently. In our area we are prone to tornado's. We also have the occasional ice storm and thunderstorms that knock out power. After watching on the news how bad people can have it, we now have 3-6 months food and water supply depending on how much of her family shows up. Like many people I know, she thinks the current situation will work itself out. It always has before so why should now be different.
I am working on getting her to think about a place in the country. I don't know if I can do this but even if I can convince her it will be farther in the future when we can afford it.
If the mob's want my stuff, it will cost them dearly.
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I have to stay no way to move all my gear and if I do bug out I will just circle around and head back home after trouble has passed. And I hope my low income home gets passed by.
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