How will you know when it's time to bug out? Say after financial collaspe.

[Uncle Albert]

What will be the defining moment for you folks who plan to bug out? What event will make you say, "Load up, we're out of here." Will it be the closing of your bank, empty store shelves, gunfire in your previously secure neighborhood? Or that the price of gas jumps over $5.00 a gallon?

 

[TheShadowKnows]

I would say once our house becomes unsafe. We have stores of food and water to last us a fair time, but I think after a break-in attempt or two the issue will be settled for me. We have a wilderness location and we've been focusing on survival skills so we should be fine. If our bug-in supplies run out then we will also likely hit the road, so to speak.

 

[pappabear]

That's a big can of worms to open. Ask 10 people and you'll probably get 12 different answers. There's a lot of variables at play such as location, preparedness, civil unrest...... I think it's just something you'll feel in your gut when it's time.

 

[Kenprep1979]

What will be the defining moment for you folks who plan to bug out? What event will make you say, "Load up, we're out of here." Will it be the closing of your bank, empty store shelves, gunfire in your previously secure neighborhood? Or that the price of gas jumps over $5.00 a gallon?

Well gas prices have been near that here a time or 2 already and it didnt have much of an effect. but if i here gun shots in my neighbor hood it is already too late you shouldnt let it get to that point ! financial collapse would be my que to load up all my preps and ready my weapons ! the store shelves being empty is my que to hit the road because people are gonna get hungry you may have 2 weeks before you start seeing violence! once people use up ther food supplies and go a week or 2 without proper meals they will start getting desperate!

 

[Uncle Albert]

I would like to once again advise communications between us. News outside of TV news is so important. One of my fellows has recently aquired Ham radio but I'm going toward CB. We need to tell each other what we are experiencing. There will be hot zones where the danger will excellerate and we will have folks that are in stable places who can tell us where to run to.
In my position in the burbs I really have no place to run to. If I had my druthers I'd go back to Calif. and plant my butt in the Sierras. I know that area from many years of hunting and fishing as a youngster. But how would I get there from Louisiana? So I wll depend upon my good neighbors to direct me locally.
My defining moment to hit the trail will be when I see military soldiers with automatic weapons gurarding the stores like they did when Katrina hit. No I'm wrong maybe when they aren't there anymore.
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[Dani]

I would like to once again advise communications between us. News outside of TV news is so important. One of my fellows has recently aquired Ham radio but I'm going toward CB. We need to tell each other what we are experiencing. There will be hot zones where the danger will excellerate and we will have folks that are in stable places who can tell us where to run to.
In my position in the burbs I really have no place to run to. If I had my druthers I'd go back to Calif. and plant my butt in the Sierras. I know that area from many years of hunting and fishing as a youngster. But how would I get there from Louisiana? So I wll depend upon my good neighbors to direct me locally.
My defining moment to hit the trail will be when I see military soldiers with automatic weapons gurarding the stores like they did when Katrina hit. No I'm wrong maybe when they aren't there anymore.
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Only prob when you see military guarding stores is that they are probably already at major intersections, telling you where you 'need' to go, so communications is the key for the back roads. I experienced that when hurricane Rita was coming. I needed to go to my aunt's house, but they kept 'telling' me I needed to go to another location. I stopped by a small city high school that was open (only for bathroom purpose to evacuees) and was able to talk to some locals who gave me back road directions to get to where I needed to go. I had to use so much more gas, but I eventually got where I needed to go but only because of the help I got from the locals in the area.

 

[Uncle Albert]

That reminds me of Katrina when people were trying to get out of New Orleans and the cops started shooting them. That's still going through the courts down here. You're right they will block the roads and I can not understand why. But when I stop to think, "If you put the government in charge of anything they will screw it up." During a disaster, just leave me the hell alone, I'll find my own way.

 

[TheShadowKnows]

But when I stop to think, "If you put the government in charge of anything they will screw it up." During a disaster, just leave me the hell alone, I'll find my own way.

Amen, brother.

 

[jontte]

would say when bullets fly and the shelves are empty...

 

[Gazrok]

We're more of the "bug in" type, but even then, there are plenty of actions to take, that would be drastic, other than a SHTF scenario. Things like blocking the roads leading to us, etc. For us, it'll be when the looting starts in the cities.