On bugging in...

[miguel]

Just read this on Survival Blog and really like it. Especially #6: Change Your Mind, Save Your Life, by Marc P. - SurvivalBlog.com

 

[churchmouse]

Just read this on Survival Blog and really like it. Especially #6: Change Your Mind, Save Your Life, by Marc P. - SurvivalBlog.com

Very well written. Makes good sense. Especially #6

 

[cwillour]

Makes good sense as long as the necessities (I.e. heat, water, sewage) can be handled where you are. If they go down, mid-term bugging in seems like less of an option.

For us that may mean dragging buckets back from local ponds or the river.

 

[churchmouse]

Camping poddy chairs and showers. They work as long as the weather is fair. If not you will find a way.

 

[Rocknhawk]

Interesting read. Different mindset than most survival posts.

 

[stocknup]

Planning to "Bug In " as long as possible. A good read .

 

[wolfts01]

Common sense. I don't like how often bugging out is touted as the end-all be-all SHTF survival plan. It is far more likely that we have a lower magnitude disaster for a longer period of time over a TEOTWAWKI scenario.
Bugging out is still a necessary backup for acts of God, but otherwise it would have to be really bad to have to pick up and leave.

 

[longbow]

As I said before! What if you bug out to your BOL and it is already taken over by 5 families. You head back home, and two families have taken over your home.................

Then what?

 

[churchmouse]

As I said before! What if you bug out to your BOL and it is already taken over by 5 families. You head back home, and two families have taken over your home.................

Then what?

At some point you have to stand your ground. Not irrationally but there is a time to take some kind of action. If those family's were reasonable people then you try and form a loose alliance. If they are not rational and it is your BOL then something has to be done. The kids would be my weak point but if the family's were young adults then some negotiations would be in order.

As to my home.....to bad, they gotta go.

Edit...unless there was little kids.

 

[longbow]

I'm bugging in..........

If for some reason I have to leave my home, something really bad is going on.

 

[inlineman]

'IN' at all costs.

 

[fangz]

I will take the home-field advantage any day.

 

[XDLover]

Its all in knowing your surroundings and knowing what you have around you. I'm not for the bugging out, I think there are too many disadvantages to this. Plus many people with little around them will be doing this.

 

[mohrpork]

I am a firm believer of bugging in. All my family lives within 1 mile of the farm. That is our defense. The farm is more than capable of providing us a long term food supply, even when it has to be done by manual labor. It easy to defend. An we have the tools and common sense to produce or build almost anything we could need.

 

[Jason R. Bruce]

My theory is to stay in initially... but a BOB is still a necessity after all immediate resources are exhausted.