Four hours to bug out!

In an EMP knowledge is golden.

I had the Air Conditioning go out on an old diesel van. I may just change the AC Pump out with an additional alternator to charge batteries and even run a small Electric Air Conditioner. Why waste all that power on one device like and AC Pump.

Money: Don't forget "Junk Silver"..1964 or older US dines, quarters, half dollars and silver dollars. Each coin is 90% REAL SILVER. When FRNs/dollars are no longer accepted, silver and gold will be at a massive premium.
Barter as Money: BIC/other Lighters, 22lr ammo in 5 round lots, zip ties and 550 paracord, cigarettes/booze, obviously food. Knowledge to filter water in easy to hand out flyer form. INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE will be akin to money.

Sanitation: 5-gallon bucket with lid, trash bags TP, wipes, and one of those toilet seats that fit on top of the bucket. MAKE SURE your family knows exactly how to use it properly, or they may end up screwing the whole deal for everyone.

i grab my macbook air with the m1 chip and a couple of vape kits

The average man in decent health can carry up to 120lbs for any extended period. Average woman can do about 80 to 100 lbs.

I would consider what you need to SURVIVE outdoors and what is necessary to continue your journey. Note... That 120 lbs does not include food or water so you will need skills. Anything else is foolishness and unrealistic. Once the SHTF all logically perceived Survivability training is out the door. Your best chance to SURVIVE if you have the skills will be to either hunker down and pray or move out to nearest forest wait out tje chaos and start moving to your off grid location if you have one. If you don't, go as far away from city as possible and begin making long term shelter and focus on safety, security, shelter, water and food.

Only take the family members with you really want.

Otherwise, you only take several days worth of anything you need to get buy. Papers and photo's of course if you never scanned them and saved them to the cloud. If you know you can come back to salvage anything then you just don't worry much about anything. You know it will be gone, take only the most valuable and unreplaceable. Set the animals free except those that are considered family members. Remember to bring them several days of food and water as well.

Good luck bugging out.

Definitely taking my two German Shepherds. They are part of the family and will live at tje off grid home.

Great list! I would also add:

1. some form of two way hand-held radio (Usually need license, but not in emergency) and portable solar panels. They make foldable ones that you can actually wear draped down your back, so as you hike they can be charging batteries. I keep all electronics in an improvised faraday cage, which is a metal trash can from which I have removed the lid handle and put copper foil tape over the Holes. I also got some rubber weather stripping and put it around the inside rim of the lid and taped it down with the same copper foil tape. I found that I could still get Bluetooth signal through that, until I used a couple of tie-downs to tighten the lid better. My father, who is a ham radio geek, said that the equipment would most likely Not be affected by an EMP, but I have a hard time seeing how that is the case, so better safe than sorry.

Inside this I also have some old ammo boxes with the paint sanded off around the top for conductivity and have the same copper foil tape all around the rubber gasket. If I am concerned about further pulses and have to go, I can put the minimum in this and leave with it.

If you are forced into a walking scenario, I suppose you just have to take your chances and leave the faraday boxes behind and go with blackout bags.

2. I would also want a change of clothes, preferably wool, depending on season, in case you get wet.

3. In my phone I carry a credit card size “survival card”, which is a thin piece of very hard sheet metal (I hope it’s hard, as I haven’t tested it) that has a lot of items like fishing hooks, trident spear tips, small fine-toothed saws, line slips, etc all laser etched Into it. They are a few bucks on amazon. The one I have is by Alpha Outpost.

4. Small first aid kit.

I'm not leaving my well armed, well stocked castle if the fucking internet goes down. lol
Honestly, I/we have too much survival gear and will fight to stay put if needed. Leaving really isnt an option. We are far enough off the beaten path and away from any city that we would not be exposed to swarms of people.

I read there are different situation preps
BOB - Bug out bag - leaving for imminent threat - like a riot - for 24 hours to 3 days

INCH bag - I’m never coming Home - fire- radiation- flood- flattening tornado type stuff

Have different scenarios covered

BUG IN - stay in place with all gear you have and way to protect it

Probably the one thing people think the least of to store and bring with them is water. Not talking about just a filter, actual water. You're going to be surprised just how much you need to drink, cook, and to maintain a basic level of cleanliness with.

I did a test with a small metal 5 gallon garbage can with a tight lid. I check ringing a cell phone. It did not ring nor would the blue tooth connect to it. Just cracking the lid and then it would ring.

Of course, it all depends on what SHTF scenario your up against.

For example, an EMP would completely change your plan of action.

In the book I am listening to the internet was the first step in a war with China. They killed the internet and cell phones so that everything would be in confusion. They also made fake news articles that looked real about bank runs and then the real bank runs started.

Young men are often angry without a reason - hormones

It obviously never occurred to him that living in your car cannot safely and securely include the babies and their needs

This place will become roving bands of idiots like this that think only of themselves and have no attachments or responsibilities

Remember that

Good post. Thanks.

stay put agreed!

Not mine

I live near the Amish

They won’t even notice if the electric goes down - they don’t use it

Life goes on without the inter webs ROFL

Everyone has a garden and knows how to heat - cook - light - without electricity

City folks will be stunned

War of the worlds tom cruise bugs out they go all over they almost get killed a dozen times they wind up in home and their neighborhood looks the same pretty much stay home don't bugout

Cool

Best way to learn to be self sufficient...live around the Amish!

Too many one stars do not want people to prepare.

I'll take all my gear that is set up already for the time when I am to leave.

Maybe I will make a video someday and show it, or maybe I'll keep that information to myself ;)

If bugging out prep is starting now, you're behind the curve by miles, and will find stuff harder to find or buy now. Prices are going up.

1. Take a deep breath...decisions made in haste are poor decisions.

2. Identify the threat. If it's coming from the north, GO SOUTH!

3. I hope your gas tank is full. Try to fill it but don't get stuck in a line.

4. Start calling family members while loading your vehicle. Give them specific names of who to call so YOU don't have to waste time calling everybody. (tell them a specific meeting place like a major casino or a lake or a major intersection).

5. If you have four hours...be on the road in one hour...in 2 hours the roads will be jammed. (have alternate routs).

6. DON'T forget the fishing rods!!!

I like Pooka's thread on prepping.

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The best two times to plant a fruit tree. 15 years ago or today.

Please do make a video.

I would casually open up my wildfire evacuation plan notebook, and start loading the truck

the list is prioritized, shouldn't take more than an hour

then I'd go help the neighbors

DVD player.

Portable generator.

Gas.

Box set of Supernatural.

My "How not to get deep dove by data miners" Handbook.

A big cup of...

Nobody, no organized anyone is going to ride in on a white horse or A-10 warthog and protect or rescue the common citizen.

I have coiled barbed wire to set out in a thick/wide field 360 around only with the intent to slow anyone up so I can have enough time to reload.

I won't last long but it'll be my hill, my home upon which I choose to make my last stand. Not running around like a scared rabbit only to be eventually shot anyways.

Farath een einnschaffen,oh sorry practising