A Car as a Bug Out Vehicle

[Devonian]

Yes I see what you are saying, though in the context of the previous posting I was thinking about the 'journey' from home to BOL, particularly when being compared with the use of MTB's.

However, thinking about what you have raised, which is a good point and opens up a new discussion, what if you are in the situation where you are in the process of bugging out in mid winter, as suggested, and you have your family with you.

So the options are:

1. Build several small/one larger debris shelters to house the family
2. Stay in the car/van
3. Apply the debris shelter principle to insulate the car/van
4. Starting "prepping your vehicle" to incorporate additional insulation

Now option 4 will depend on your vehicle, its not going to be very practical to start adding extra insulation to your Nissan Micra or Ford Mondeo, but if you have a van or proper Landy (or similar), then it is quite common to line the sides and roof with 25mm Celotex and then ply line over the top - so nice and snug.

So yet another prepping direction for consideration.......

But all depends on whether you need to bug out and far you may have to travel.