Honest question! Run or help?
I want to mention up front that I do have a bag in the basement with clothing, meds, info,powerbars, cash,cell phone for 911, a few light tools and clothing for me and flarewife. This is for storm readiness in the event we are in the basement during a tornado and the house leaves us. I am not talking about storm ready here.
I read the bug out bag threads, the bug out gun, truck ideas etc.. and I wonder how many members here will be part of the problem or part of a potential solution?
Again, I am not talking about storm readiness and recovery here, I am talking about big things like the fall of the rule of law. Do you really see the failure of law on a massive scale? Would you be willing to chuck it all and run to somewhere that has "law"? Where would that be? Where would you go? Would you be one of the masses that jam up the roads so the fire trucks could not help others?
Sure, in a dirty bomb we all gotta get out fast...but I seriously doubt many could get away from the circle center fast enough if you live within 25 miles of it, and the rest will have to move permanently, so I will leave that out for the sake of this discussion.
I just get the feeling and sentiment from many of these threads that many are just preparing to run somewhere if things get bad? I live in northern Johnson Co. but have a family farm with a underground cement bunker, a farm pond, woods and septic etc.. but it is in Northern Brown County, and I know that I may not make it there before the roads get clogged, so I kinda chuck that idea...unless I find the need to move. But by then I am sure 500 other people will lay claim to that pond for a food source, (at least for a week or two till they fish it out) so much for fresh fish.
So I will stay, sure if the city water starts to fail I will need to hook up the well, and the sewer starts to back up I will plug the drains and dig an outhouse(?) or move. But is "move" something that I will need to do in a panic with a special gun or ammo laden bag?
S#!T or FAN?
So, if you are going to be one of the masses on the road, you will be one of the armed masses (with a rifle on your back), but where will you go? If you have no plan that you can execute in 1 hour you may end up far from home, low on things and decide to take them at some point, and that may make you the S#!T, because you may stop in front of someones home that elected to tough it out and start taking things...I.E. S#!T.
If you elect to stay at home and work to repair/ rebuild your neighborhood, put out fires deal with the mess maybe you are a fan? And since you are reading this, you are an armed fan... and that is something that some may not want to mess around with, after all, you could loose a finger poking around in a fan.
Jus sayin...
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I want to mention up front that I do have a bag in the basement with clothing, meds, info,powerbars, cash,cell phone for 911, a few light tools and clothing for me and flarewife. This is for storm readiness in the event we are in the basement during a tornado and the house leaves us. I am not talking about storm ready here.
I read the bug out bag threads, the bug out gun, truck ideas etc.. and I wonder how many members here will be part of the problem or part of a potential solution?
Again, I am not talking about storm readiness and recovery here, I am talking about big things like the fall of the rule of law. Do you really see the failure of law on a massive scale? Would you be willing to chuck it all and run to somewhere that has "law"? Where would that be? Where would you go? Would you be one of the masses that jam up the roads so the fire trucks could not help others?
Sure, in a dirty bomb we all gotta get out fast...but I seriously doubt many could get away from the circle center fast enough if you live within 25 miles of it, and the rest will have to move permanently, so I will leave that out for the sake of this discussion.
I just get the feeling and sentiment from many of these threads that many are just preparing to run somewhere if things get bad? I live in northern Johnson Co. but have a family farm with a underground cement bunker, a farm pond, woods and septic etc.. but it is in Northern Brown County, and I know that I may not make it there before the roads get clogged, so I kinda chuck that idea...unless I find the need to move. But by then I am sure 500 other people will lay claim to that pond for a food source, (at least for a week or two till they fish it out) so much for fresh fish.
So I will stay, sure if the city water starts to fail I will need to hook up the well, and the sewer starts to back up I will plug the drains and dig an outhouse(?) or move. But is "move" something that I will need to do in a panic with a special gun or ammo laden bag?
S#!T or FAN?
So, if you are going to be one of the masses on the road, you will be one of the armed masses (with a rifle on your back), but where will you go? If you have no plan that you can execute in 1 hour you may end up far from home, low on things and decide to take them at some point, and that may make you the S#!T, because you may stop in front of someones home that elected to tough it out and start taking things...I.E. S#!T.
If you elect to stay at home and work to repair/ rebuild your neighborhood, put out fires deal with the mess maybe you are a fan? And since you are reading this, you are an armed fan... and that is something that some may not want to mess around with, after all, you could loose a finger poking around in a fan.
Jus sayin...
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Step away from the FM dial...
