What is your concept of Bugging Out?

[nickdutch]

i dont really have a concept of it. sure I have some camping equipment and I can put up my small tent anywhere, but to the most part, it will probably be me moving in with someone for a while.

[jansman]

Of course, bugging out is what people in the US need to do all the time, when a hurricane comes calling - didn't a million or so people drive out of New Orleans in the days before Katrina hit? I wonder what would happen here if another hurricane was forecast? Would people evacuate? It'd be half the country, tho, thats the problem.

The vital word is in there. Evacuation. Not bug out. Horrible phrase, that.
I have spare clothing and cash in an outbuilding,and copies of important Docs.
We certainly ain't runnin' to the woods. That scenario is a probable death sentence for most.

[unsure]

i think like most , it would be batten down the hatch`s . wait and see . then after a while pop head and see whats happening . then if needs be repeat untill i thought it was safe to either leave or not or weather it was worth leaving

[PreppingPingu]

*nods at what a lot of other have said on the forum* "Bugging out" is not a UK feasible option! Our preps in the home will help us cope as long as we need, then our Bug Out Bag/Vehicle etc etc will be use to help us evacuate to a safe place if the need arises. (Evacuating rather than bugging out as someone else on here put.) I rather feel that here in the UK where we are hopelessly over populated and under resourced, it if gets to a point of any of us actually needed to bug out as it were, then we/society and everything else is pretty screwed! Having a plan is good, an idea of whose home, friends or family, to go is good.

As has been said before, most of us prep for the more likely scenarios which tend to be temporary but you never know Be prepared!

[junmist]

depends what you mean by bugging out. I have a supply of food for a curtain amount of time at home, if the government has not sorted out the problem out by then I will put plans A,B, or C into action

[Hamradioop]

depends what you mean by bugging out. I have a supply of food for a curtain amount of time at home, if the government has not sorted out the problem out by then I will put plans A,B, or C into action

Big assumption that a government will exist, the Local Resilience Forums do not appear to do much. I know the old County emergency Planning Teams were a lot more active.

[Patglazz]

I was sort of thinking along the lines of economic breakdown and what that brings.
There is a certain element of yob mentality out there, whereby at the first signs of trouble, you get out there and loot what you can. In the first few days this element of society will loot and burn, inadvertently destroying important food supplies that they and everyone else will need in the following days.
Yup I agree that the countryside will be littered with corpses within a few weeks, even the Ray Mears of the world will have great difficulty living off the land with so many amateurs yomping all over the place (if I happen across Ray Mears' body would it be ethical to eat him?).
Digging in where I am would be a bit of a dead end so for me it would have to be a get outta town scenario, dig a hole and stay hidden for a month or so.
Popping out to try and poach a sheep or a cow would be dangerous and pointless, after the first week there wouldn't be any left (that aren't guarded by half a dozen shotguns) and if you look too healthy you risk being followed back to your supplies, or having their location beaten out of you.
Your replies have reaffirmed in my mind what I need to do, which is what I was planning anyway - get a small bit of land - dig a hole - camouflage it - fill it with food - then if SHTF, get in shut the door and sit tight

[poppypiesdad]

I was sort of thinking along the lines of economic breakdown and what that brings.
There is a certain element of yob mentality out there, whereby at the first signs of trouble, you get out there and loot what you can. In the first few days this element of society will loot and burn, inadvertently destroying important food supplies that they and everyone else will need in the following days.
Yup I agree that the countryside will be littered with corpses within a few weeks, even the Ray Mears of the world will have great difficulty living off the land with so many amateurs yomping all over the place (if I happen across Ray Mears' body would it be ethical to eat him?).
Digging in where I am would be a bit of a dead end so for me it would have to be a get outta town scenario, dig a hole and stay hidden for a month or so.
Popping out to try and poach a sheep or a cow would be dangerous and pointless, after the first week there wouldn't be any left (that aren't guarded by half a dozen shotguns) and if you look too healthy you risk being followed back to your supplies, or having their location beaten out of you.
Your replies have reaffirmed in my mind what I need to do, which is what I was planning anyway - get a small bit of land - dig a hole - camouflage it - fill it with food - then if SHTF, get in shut the door and sit tight

lets hope the hole doesnt flood

[Patglazz]

Your replies have reaffirmed in my mind what I need to do, which is what I was planning anyway - get a small bit of land - dig a hole - camouflage it - fill it with food - then if SHTF, get in shut the door and sit tight

lets hope the hole doesnt flood

Plan A(2) install water pumps. Plan B Build and ark

[poppypiesdad]

Your replies have reaffirmed in my mind what I need to do, which is what I was planning anyway - get a small bit of land - dig a hole - camouflage it - fill it with food - then if SHTF, get in shut the door and sit tight

lets hope the hole doesnt flood

Plan A(2) install water pumps. Plan B Build and ark

How you going to power your water pump so on one can hear it , what happens when you run out of fuel, power.

Being Pedantic now.

J