bug out ,bug in

[feegle]

Hi all,i know this may have been asked ,but ,if you had to give the main reason ,or reasons why you chose to bug in or bug out ,...what would it be ??? ,thanks guys

[preppingsu]

Our plans are to bug in. End of!

However, if my property was flooded, damaged by fire, or there was a problem nearby (chemical leak, fire, explosion that caused instability in the property etc etc etc)then our plan would be to bug out to a local budget hotel or to parents house, a little further away.

I do not plan to 'take to the trees'.

[junmist]

bug in unless its a zombie attack in which case bug out

[preppingsu]

bug in unless its a zombie attack in which case bug out

[Alleycat]

Bug in. Keep head down, become as invisible as possible. Not much different to now really, I live in a smallish flat and I dont really have many people round - I tend to socialise away from my home, and thats just the way I like it! I'm an extrovert with hermit tendancies - split personality

I dont really see as where I live is high on the list of raidable/rich pickings and we dont have a 'hoody' presence. I also dont have a set bug out location so would be in a tent in the woods - but all my stuff is here and living in the woods would be an extreme scenario!

[Alleycat]

bug in unless its a zombie attack in which case bug out

It would depend on what type of zombie....slow shambling, back from the dead type - better off staying put, they cant turn door knobs or work out how to get in anywhere so would just lurch around in your garden.

But if it were the not really zombie, infected type like in 28 days later then bug out to as remote a place as possible - those are seriously scary!!!

[tigs]

bug in unless its a zombie attack in which case bug out

It would depend on what type of zombie....slow shambling, back from the dead type - better off staying put, they cant turn door knobs or work out how to get in anywhere so would just lurch around in your garden.

But if it were the not really zombie, infected type like in 28 days later then bug out to as remote a place as possible - those are seriously scary!!!

take it you dont watch the walking dead , the slow moving ones become a heard and just walk through walls and fences with shear weight

[Alleycat]

bug in unless its a zombie attack in which case bug out

It would depend on what type of zombie....slow shambling, back from the dead type - better off staying put, they cant turn door knobs or work out how to get in anywhere so would just lurch around in your garden.

But if it were the not really zombie, infected type like in 28 days later then bug out to as remote a place as possible - those are seriously scary!!!

take it you dont watch the walking dead , the slow moving ones become a heard and just walk through walls and fences with shear weight

Ok, if a herd type situation was occurring and I lived in a wooden house like the farmhouse on The Walking Dead, then I would bug out

[jansman]

Our plans are to bug in. End of!

However, if my property was flooded, damaged by fire, or there was a problem nearby (chemical leak, fire, explosion that caused instability in the property etc etc etc)then our plan would be to bug out to a local budget hotel or to parents house, a little further away.

I do not plan to 'take to the trees'.

I am with you Su. Too old and (wise) to go Rambo-ing in the woods. Hate camping anyway! Like you if we are talking flood or gas leak type scenario, we have family near etc.IF and I mean IF we are in an apocolyptic situation then the last place I will be is 'in the woods' with a hundred stressed out , starving crazies!
An old friend of mine was Lithuanian. As a boy of 8 yrs old, he was out of his village delivering animal feed. When he returned the German Army refused him entry. He had to "bug out". He was a refugee. Simple as that. He told me that he lived out of fields/ begged/stole for three years! He reckons he got away with it because he was a boy. He saw adults killed for the same as he was doing. As a country boy back then he was placed well to look after himself-as kids were back then. Today most folk struggle to work out a menu for the week, let alone find the contents in the woods!
Jo , my friend, had a lovely old house. Very comfortable, and he believed in the best he could afford. One year when the kids were young we did not have much money. So we decided camping was the chance for cheap holiday. Jo was horrified! He told me that my girls were not living in those conditions, so he gave me the keys to his cottage in the Cotswolds and even lent me his Jag!!! What a man.
As I sit here in front of my logstove, with a glass of very nice Grenach, I think of Jo and what he told me of his life as a refugee, and i have to smile at the idea of 'taking to the trees'.

[Plymtom]

Thanks Jansman, I really love to hear/read true stories from real lives and firmly beleive in learning from experience, and it doesn't have to be my own, in this case it helps to illustrate the big picture as it were, non of my family would last a fortnight in anything but the most favourable of weather and conditions out of doors, to think we could on mass become Ray Mears let alone Jonny Rambo wanabees is bloody ludicrous,"edit" many preppers actually do have these type skills and"edit" I don't doubt more than the average amount of them may be here amongst us, and I think they'd be shocked at just how much company they'd have in their seclusion in a post SHTF Britain, bushcraft and survival types may come out of the woodwork in droves SHTF, the Ray Mears's wont have to be that numerous to make the great outdoors feel crowded.

We have a few local woodland areas open to the public, which are busier than the "parks" in the city itself these days, Plymbridge woods on a sunday, is like the city centre shops on a weekday morning only everyone speaks to each other, it's weird I'm so used to the impersonal city where everyone ignores one another with the exeption of the chuggers of course when someone speaks to me when I go out in the woods for the first time in ages, I'm almost saying "no thanks mate" like I am about to be offered a big issue, but it is nice (ish) when you get used to it.

You would not beleive the amount of times my cursor moves and buggers up or deletes bits for me