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Offline Mr Mannn

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OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« on: March 26, 2012, 08:33:17 PM »
30 day supply of freeze dried food from Wise. Just add water. 60 meals, lunch and dinner.
12 MREs with heaters.
72 hour supply of packaged water for my bug out kit.
Two straw water filters One for the BO Kit, and one for my car.
Package of water proof matches, and a flint/steel fire-starter .
Backpacker stove with solid fuel tablets (no leaks or fumes)

Next month is some basic camping gear, (all I have left is my sleeping bag).
Its a start. I do need a reliable water filter that will take care of me for a few months.

What I really need is a bug out destination. I'm in Iowa, 5 hours down a nice clear highway from Chicago and Minneapolis. While I'm tempted to stay put in a farming state, but I may have millions of Big city types thinking this same idea.

In good weather I could go north to Canada (I have no visa), or West to the Colorado mountains.
In winter, My first thought will be Texas, but anywhere along a coast will be CROWDED with people.

My ideal place will be the Mesa Verde Indian Ruins.  Good camp grounds, narrow roads, difficult entry ways and the ruins are a good hideout cause they have water seeps in the back of the caves. I picked this area because I know it well. But its a long ways off (2-3 days drive), and I don't know if I'll have the foresight to predict when the SHTF. I may get lucky to get a day's drive away...if at all.

So I want to ask where you all will be going? Do you really think you will be able to tell when things get bad before they really do?


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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2012, 08:44:55 AM »
We would probably "bug in," but the Adirondacks are about an hour away, and there's lots of places to disappear up there.  I've got some Wise freeze-dried food myself, and will probably get more.
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2012, 08:56:24 AM »
Getting to old and stiff to do much running and camping....but my trigger finger still works pretty good. :-)
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2012, 09:50:13 AM »
I am sticking tight, for reasons dealing with my wife, she is not physically capable of packing out (Details of the old injury involved aren't important, but she can't walk more than a couple of hundred meters).  Settled on a farm in a low-population area which is not near a major highway for that reason.
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2012, 10:04:28 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on March 27, 2012, 09:50:13 AM
I am sticking tight, for reasons dealing with my wife, she is not physically capable of packing out (Details of the old injury involved aren't important, but she can't walk more than a couple of hundred meters).  Settled on a farm in a low-population area which is not near a major highway for that reason.

I live to close to the road. It's not a major road but if it got bad, I could move to a wooded hill top on the backside of the farm.

I don't have the suitable heavy equipment for this anymore but I used to daydream about what I'd do in an emergency. I had thought of digging a trench in the side of a hill and burying a semi trailer, a school bus, a railroad car, very large concrete/metal pipe, anything like that would make a good emergency shelter. I could have done that in an hour or less back then. 1/2 a day and I could have rigged up a pretty fair fallout shelter with an air filtration system.

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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2012, 04:48:00 PM »
I'll probably just hang tight and take as many of the bastards with me as I can.
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2012, 05:54:37 PM »
I share a parking lot with a bar and a gas station. My truck's tank will be full. The on/off ramp is right next to me.
Once I hit the highway headed west towards Omaha, I have just a few off ramps and then its open country for 3 hours. So looters from Chicago will have an entire city before them even get to me, I'm betting their arms will be tired by that time.

I think I'll take a trip to the great lakes and scope out a path to Canada if I have too.  I'll make for a nice summer trip. Check out the campgrounds up north too.  With no mountains, There's not a whole lot of places to go.
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2012, 09:53:01 PM »
I started the whole "Survival Preparedness" thing essentially by accident.

As a youth - I loved hiking and camping in remote hard to access places, and built up over time a pretty effective kit to haul out there that would keep me pretty comfortable in any weather for a few days if I got lost or flooded in.

Now I'm older and have such things as pickup trucks , trailers and boats of my own - I do essentially the same but the level of comfort and survivability has been vastly extended.

Over the last 20 years or so I've built and fine tuned several different lodouts depending on what activity I'm doing out there. Pig hunting trips are much different to fishing trips are much different to gem hunting tripsin terms of what gear you pack and so on.

The only real difference between heading away for a 2 week fishing trip {and "bugging out"} is the inclusion of another couple of mil-spec containers added to the back of the pickup.

As for where I go - I live in Northern Australia. There's so few people and so many brilliant spots to go to where one could set up a pretty flash camp and not see another person for 6 months at the best of times.
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2012, 01:23:59 AM »
For us, the Atchafalaya Basin.  My husband's people are Swamp people.  They've hunted, fished, lived in the Basin their whole lives.  I trust them, we won't go hungry and they are armed to the teeth.

It's not crazy to have a plan.  I found out in this life, you never know what could happen and never say never.

 
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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2012, 08:41:43 AM »
Quote from: shadeaux on March 28, 2012, 01:23:59 AM
It's not crazy to have a plan.  I found out in this life, you never know what could happen and never say never.

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Re: OK, I did it. I crossed the line and made my first purchases.
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2012, 07:50:49 AM »
OK, my experiment worked. I left the beans of a 4 bean soup mix overnight in two cups of water (in the fridge!) and they are soft enough to eat.

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