Plan Your Destination
Each destination requires its own plan, but one thing is for sure as you plan your excursion, it will prompt you to be more thorough with your packing and preparations
Be Proactive - Develop a Plan
(Don't Live Without One)
Disaster Planning is like having an Emergency Road Service Coverage Plan or Club Membership. Can you survive without it? Yes, but will it be as simple? Will it be more costly? Will it be as efficient? Or timely? The likelihood is no.
Make Your Own Plan
If you drive your car without a spare tire you will still drive around just fine, until you have a flat or worse you strike a curb or bad pothole which damages your wheel. Then if you have no spare tire you are in trouble.
You should always have a plan for bugging out, even if you are set on surviving in place. You need only look at the last few highly publicized natural disasters to see how the government officials in order to “simplify services, reduce threats to their own personnel and reduce costs” will FORCE you to EVACUATE to a “Designated Safe Place”. Again, read the accounts of suffering heaped upon people in New Orleans at the Super Dome during Katrina and ask yourself if this is a plan for your family.
You will not have a choice to stay or leave the Government Officials will make that decision for you.
How long will it take you to load everything? What will you load? How will you remember everything? Can you find it in a rush? These are the things that you should include in your bug out plan.
If you recognize the aforementioned facts, then why is it that we get sheepish, embarrassed or lazy about disaster planning?
