Bugging out??

[Scythe13]

(7 March 2012, 07:08)Reality Jones Wrote:

(6 March 2012, 17:34)bigpaul Wrote: yes, Prepgirl, but thats the trouble, if we have to bug out, especially on foot, we cant take that much with us.

This is why it's a good idea to store / bury some caches of food or supplies along escape routes to your bug out location, less chance of them being discovered and because you have spread them out less chance of them all being found!

That's exactly my view. I thought the idea of making a cache was because we can't carry everything we want to. To me, it makes sense to bury a LOAD of stuff in caches in the garden! If the home is hit and you lose everything inside, you still have a garden of stuff to get back to. Moreover, you know where your house is, and how easy it would be to get back there after a few months time.

I don't think many homes will be hit multiple times. A house will be focused on once, then it will be in a really bad state. People will then leave. Others won't come along, see the home all smashed up and think "Hey, I wonder if there's food in there?" They're going to think "Damn, someone beat us to it. Okay, let's move to the next house." But they're not going to spend all day digging up your garden.

The same is true with alotments. People will dig an alotment, but they won't be digging down 6 feet under the shed.

When I get a suitable BOL, I'm going to be caching it up with like a years worth of food, as well as planting edible plants/trees in the area. The idea of a BOL is to escape and be safe. If you're bugging out, you need to be able to get to your BOL in a few days. You can't really carry a years worth of food with you. But you can arrive at your BOL and have a years worth of food waiting for you.