I personally had a bug out practice (forced) they evacuated the area where I work beocuse a package (later found to be a bail of marijuana) was strapped to a train full of chemicals and they thought at first it was a bomb.
"Forced" Bug Out Practice...
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reading all this earlier this morning got me to thinking about everything that id have to grab n go with if we had to get out fast as possible.just looking around here in my room,to thinking of whats in the other rooms of the house.i will definitely be leaving stuff behind whats needed if i had to get out due to bad rain storms to whatever.the items that i find important for a bug out,is scattered throughout the house.that includes my b.o.b eton radio flashlights first aid stuff under bathroom sink and other items
I did a mock bug Friday with my family. Like you I found some areas we were lacking in. Good news is got most of the problems taking care of yesterday. All in all everything else went fine.
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Glad to hear it went pretty well.
The kids were busily updating their B.O.B.'s. The primary was changing shoes out, and other clothing that is outgrown.
did you feel ready???? or was it overwhelming
Good idea for the practice. Never thought about that before.
I'm slightly confused as to what bugging out is? maybe i missed the post where it describes it.
Also the evacuation sounds like good practice, down in san diego i dont get much practice at leaving my neighborhood in a scare.
However I do practice clearing each room of my house at night for intruders, just in case.
Also the evacuation sounds like good practice, down in san diego i dont get much practice at leaving my neighborhood in a scare.
However I do practice clearing each room of my house at night for intruders, just in case.
Bugging out basically is being prepared to flee your place of safety, whatever that is at the time..
yeah.like roni says. bugging out is when it's no longer safe to stay where your living.in which that'd be your bug in location=bil. and of course your bug out location,=bol be where you go to,to be safe from any possible threats,.
Ohh okay. Well right now my home is safe. I do daily patrols of my home and am always on watch of my area. Also I do drills in my house when noones home, I have my gun and my flashlight and (with no rounds in the gun) will practice going room to room clearing it checking different ways to approach my home and area. Anybody else do that?
oh yeah im sure there is others that do drills.in my case for now...i look around and check things out when i go outside.more so then ever.on account we went from leafs on the tress,to no leafs on the tress.and obviously enough that changes the scenery..so im getting use to the looks of things thats away from the home.i live in the country.so i get to stand in the street most times. thats when i just stand there and look at the house,while looking for faults in my situation.take the yard for example.i can see that i have a routine when it comes to walking around the home checking things out..i also have 2 routes i take to go out to check the mailbox.all thats HAS got to change big time.
It was 2011, we were living just outside of Wichita when a tornado came through and ruptured the gas line in our neighborhood, too. We got the heck outta dodge, headed to a cabin about an hour away before another twister came through. Had a storm shelter at the house but still didn't feel safe with the gas line leaking all over so the cabin it was. We got lucky that time. Even the second twister missed our house. Having backups to backups pays.
I never did this in the early days of prepping and I wouldn't bother now. I moved around so much in my younger life it's like I was always bugging out. Besides, unless you do the bugout practice during a hurricane it probably isn't too valid 
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