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 03-30-2011, 05:39 PM | #1 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 3-P Posts: 1,700 |  To Stay or Go??
I was talking to some friends about a bug out bag and they said "why? you already live in the boonies, have a private well, and can supply a small platoon." Most of my townie buddies say if the S ever does hit the fan their b-lining it straght to my house.... being in the desert i can see the well being a definite advantage as their are no close (or easy) water sources.
So in a SHTF situation how do you deside if you stay where your at or leave? | 
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| 03-30-2011, 05:55 PM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: , TX Posts: 1,119 |
Too many possible scenarios...my answer is, it depends.
I will stay as long as I can though. | |
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| 03-30-2011, 06:05 PM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: south of louisville, Kentucky Posts: 508 |
I've already decided to bug out when s**t hits the fan, the reason is my house is in the middle of the town, I was trained to survive the woods not in the city, also it's easier to mount a defense when you can see people coming from any direction. Zombie, military invasion, or even plague I'm covered to a point. The best way I can say weather or not to make the call is just look at your situation and see what could happen in several different possible situations or just wait till it happens and react. __________________
"ever man out here has a timer, no one know how long it will take but no one last forever"
Sargent Miller
"cake or death! I'll have the cake then... SORRY WHERE OUT OF CAKE!... so it's or death? I'll have the chicken then please." Eddy Izzard
"so a suppose your going to kill me now? no he is I'm just here to watch"
"you know why guns are better then a woman?... you can put a silencer on a gun." | |
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| 03-30-2011, 06:23 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: , Texas Posts: 231 |
To me, if you can survive off the grid, I'd stay put. I'm working on that little problem now. My well is dependent on electricity. __________________
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington
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| 03-30-2011, 06:32 PM | #5 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 3-P Posts: 1,700 |
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Originally Posted by larry5081
To me, if you can survive off the grid, I'd stay put. I'm working on that little problem now. My well is dependent on electricity.
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my well can hold 10,000+ gals. and ive recently got a generator that can run the pumps on it.... due to a previous well failure i found i have a 2- week supply with out any conserving (including watering animals, plants, taking showers, pretty much living as usual... im sure it could last 2-3 times as long if needed.) i would like to go solar at some point but the funds dont allow it..... | |
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| 03-30-2011, 06:42 PM | #6 | The original Pot Stirrer Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: |, Maryland Posts: 3,039 |
What if the reason to cause alarm is a local one. Got any nuclear plants within a hundred miles? Live in a potential earthquake/flood/wildfire/monsoon area?
I say, have a bag so that if you need to go you can go quickly. Your bag is needed for the scenarios you plan for and even more needed for the ones you don't. __________________
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| 03-30-2011, 09:30 PM | #7 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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Don't bug out unless staying at home puts you in serious danger.
Make sure you have one or more bug-out locations if you need to bug out. __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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| 03-30-2011, 10:10 PM | #8 | Dead Wolves = Good Wolves Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Rochester WI, Rochester WI Posts: 8,314 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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i plan on leaving wis. im waaay too close to milwaukee madison and chicago. all the government dependents will be looking to murder rape and steal everything they can. there are a couple million located in this general area. __________________
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." — L. Neil Smith
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| 03-30-2011, 11:59 PM | #9 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 3-P Posts: 1,700 |
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Originally Posted by Yunus
What if the reason to cause alarm is a local one. Got any nuclear plants within a hundred miles? Live in a potential earthquake/flood/wildfire/monsoon area?
I say, have a bag so that if you need to go you can go quickly. Your bag is needed for the scenarios you plan for and even more needed for the ones you don't.
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Nope and Nope... where i live its blessing is its curse.. ive really have nowhere to go, theres pretty much nada for a couple of hundred miles, just sand, snakes, and more desert.. (well theirs tucson, but not going there for anything in a SHTF situation..) my biggest concern would be water, as there is none close. Even if you were to find water somewhere there would be a very good chance its contaminated with mercury and arsnic, left from the mines in the area. | |
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| 03-31-2011, 12:15 AM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: south of louisville, Kentucky Posts: 508 |
best place for me is the woods why I keep forgetting take my camping gear out of my truck __________________
"ever man out here has a timer, no one know how long it will take but no one last forever"
Sargent Miller
"cake or death! I'll have the cake then... SORRY WHERE OUT OF CAKE!... so it's or death? I'll have the chicken then please." Eddy Izzard
"so a suppose your going to kill me now? no he is I'm just here to watch"
"you know why guns are better then a woman?... you can put a silencer on a gun." | |
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