Bug in or bug out

[bulldogeagle]

..I would be interested to hear your views on whether you would BI or BO..

I'm single with no dependents and will use a 'PLAY IT BY EAR' strategy and only get out of my big city if I HAVE to..
Here's my cosy little street with plenty of food shops around, so I plan to stock up with food and water and barricade myself in my home-



When it runs out (assuming the government haven't sent in any food convoys), I'll have to consider getting out into the country on my bike with my tent to look for turnips and fresh streams, hopefully it won't be in winter, brrrrr....

AH! that looks like the Barbican, i think if i lived there i would think about bugging out by sea, plenty of boats around that area. not sure if i would bug in there, too many buildings around there and not far from the city centre.

[SooBee]

I've walked round your patch a few times.
Your best routes to the rear would be by sea.
However the problem for you would be if the Cumbre Vieja on La Palma slid into the sea.
Your stretch of coast would be quite vulnerable and higher ground would be better.

Soobee

[Le Mouse]

Unless it is for fire, flood or contamination (chemical or nuclear) bug in. Bugging out should only be considered if you have a plan, a destination and enough supplies to sustain you for the time period in your plan. Otherwise you are nothing more than a refugee!

This is pretty much how I feel. I'm female, single and live in London. I'm also a lodger living in a house with 4 other people including my landlord and his daughter. I would want to bug in as long as possible, but if my landlord wanted us all out because he was leaving too, I wouldn't have much choice.

When I first came to this site I was all about the bugging out, but trying to find routes out of my bit of London is proving really difficult and also the reality of getting to my ideal BOL - my hometown where all my family live - by pushbike is like wanting the moon on a stick. For a start, it's quite a way. It would take about two days by bike, camping along the way. Also my family live in an urban environment - much quieter than here obviously, but still urban. I do have a friend who lives in a rural bit of the same area as my family so I could go to her, but it would still be a stretch.

So bugging in it would be. I'm building up food stores as much as one can living in one room. Luckily the house, despite being in a bit of a posh area, looks quite scruffy so we probably wouldn't be the first targets of marauding looters.

However, I wouldn't want to be stuck here. If TSHTF then London would not be a good place to be. My concern is that if anything big happened, that London might get locked down or put under curfew. I'd want to be well away before anything like that happened.

I have a many-years-down-the-line plan of living somewhere rural near my hometown where I could hunker down if anything happened and my family could come to me. But that is such a long way off that it's practically invisible!

[TwoDo]

In 'The Day after Tomorrow' New York is half-buried under snow and ice so a bunch of people decide to hike out on foot heading south to hopefully warmer climes, but of course they all soon freeze to death.
The ones who stay put in solid buildings survive.
At two minutes into this clip the kids dad says "Do not go out!".
http://youtu.be/MriabvlDPkw

Good movie but the bit at the end of that movie always makes me laugh. Dad is busy looking for the NY Public Library to find his son, turns out they are standing on the building because of all the snow, they go in and there is much dramatic tension as to whether the son is alive. The silly thing is that when he does find his son, the son is in a room with a blazing fire (they are burning books). Awww... that's nice. But where's the smoke going? It's sure going somewhere and it ought to have been frigging obvious for miles around from the plume of smoke that there is a fire down there and that is probably is where the son is.

[st3vi3]

This is good topic
For me im male 26 with 3 year old son and partner. Live in a house estate one edge of two large town(10 mile rd between towns) and edge of countryside.

I rent atm so would be stay put short term, but I feel I could get my family to parents or her parents who have more land stronger house and own water supply. Could be walked in a day if needs be depending on weather conditions eg flooding high winds. Depends on whats happening at that time but overall short term stay with early decision to leave

[tom2tom]

Interesting reading what other people are doing so think i will have a go.

I am male and single.
I live in the country side.

My plan would be to bug in. Have all the recourse me and my family need were we live. We have a spring that starts a stream in one of are fields, shelter (we live here) and food. Dam hares we can't get rid of them no matter how hard we try, but would come in handy if something did happen.

I don't see a reason off bugging out unless we got raided. Which i am prepped for !

[junmist]

This is good topic
For me im male 26 with 3 year old son and partner. Live in a house estate one edge of two large town(10 mile rd between towns) and edge of countryside.

I rent atm so would be stay put short term, but I feel I could get my family to parents or her parents who have more land stronger house and own water supply. Could be walked in a day if needs be depending on weather conditions eg flooding high winds. Depends on whats happening at that time but overall short term stay with early decision to leave

Have you tried walking to parents house with your 3yr old I would look at another way of getting him there if you can't use the car how about cycleing with one of those cycle things that you attach to your bike for youngster

[mongrel]

Strange, I've always prepped so that if something thing did go wrong I'd be able to continue living in reasonable comfort, so that would be at home! Heating is by log burner, the wind generator would provide lights, radio maybe not a washing machine, but it would manage a chest freezer.
The gardens all planted with fruit and veg with a well stocked “prepper cupboard” my plan would be to stay at home

Our location was choosen to give access to both woodland and shoreline, I've got a air rifle, joined a rifle club to learn to use it and have permission to shoot on next door farm. My OH can turn a bunny into many a delicious meal form pie to curry, started baking her own bread so we are investigating long term flour storage.

It's not a perfect setup by any means but things would have to be VERY serious before I'd abandon my fireside seat.

[st3vi3]

Ive walked it before when car broke down or justg felt like a walk.... Dont like to pay for taxi when im fit and able. Bike idea is stunning idea thou. His wee legs wouldnt take him even thou I takeh him on short forest walks. Mayb when he older he could do it. My partner would look at me if I had two heads if I asked her to walk 10 miles lol

[schizoidgal]

My concern about going by car is what if everyone-else had that thought? It would be hell to have a lovely bug out plan totally ruined by non-preppers having a panicked evacuation.