Hard Decisions: Knowing When to Bug Out

[Jonas]

[Scythe13]

Good read. Thanks mate

[Mortblanc]

And a complicate consideration, most of it concentrated on the urban situation.

I have lived in my rural area for 6 years and have seen police cars on my lane twice in that time. I called them once to issue a warning to some little hooligan riding an unsilenced dirt bike at 6am on Saturday morning. I would have killed the nit myself but I would have had to clean the gun and it was not worth the effort.

The other time I saw them I am sure they were serving papers. Therefore seeing or speaking to LEO and emergency services in my are means nothing.

One must consider that they might already live where everyone else would consider a BOL.

On several occasions I have seen heavy smoke from multiple locations, but it has been due to weather related incidents, not TEOTW. My own power was down, phone service was gone, cell service had been blocked for use by emergency services (they can do that). The only connection to the outside world was a battery powered radio. Fortunately the tornado hit the little village down the road and wiped all 300 houses out instead of hitting me. They had to bug out, I didn't.

It's all relative and when you begin setting rules for when to bug out you will always be caught in a guessing game.

All plans break down after first contact with the enemy.

[bigpaul]

that's why we just don't have plan A, we have plan B,C,D,E and F.

[Steve]

One must consider that they might already live where everyone else would consider a BOL.

That is a point I have considered because in my little private road there are 4 houses but two are holiday rental houses. There is a possibility of a previous holidaymaker heading for one of those houses, probably unprepared and hungry. Geography is on my side here though, it would be a difficult post crash journey from England.

That same geography also gives me my biggest headache - I have family who might need to make that journey.