The old adage, whatever it was...something about "even the best laid plans" is pretty accurate. More so in a SHTF scenario.
You have planned to bug out...to the perfect location in a hidden spot, on an old dead end road, with your hidden cache of weapons, food, clothes, TP, a bottle of whiskey and some trade goods. SHTF happens, you follow your exact route, and it works perfect! You made the best time yet, you avoided checkpoints, government interference, roving gangs and all of that! Hurray! You scurry over to your cache only to find someone else is already there...with your cache of goods, your arsenal and they aren't happy you are there.
What do you do? Well, you could get back into your truck, find a corner to cry in and jack off with your tears...OR....you could simply say to yourself, "Damn, good thing I have a Plan B!"
That is going to be essential in the kind of scenario we could be facing. Yes, have a spot....hell...have 10 spots, but all I am saying is NEVER place all of your eggs in one basket.
IF you are in the country, drive them old back roads around you, especially if you are planning to wait it out at your place. If you could have a crystal ball and see into the future, you would never have to have any other plan than simply Plan A! But, yeah....life is not so simple. We all know that, so let's move on, I am digressing.
Never, ever...have just one plan! EVER! That is either really ignorant, stupid or just completely naive. Also, in any spot that you find, Don't "secretly hide" all of your cache either.
Go forth into the area's you will bug out into. Do some re-con. Is there water? Food source? What do the neighbors seem like? Are you near a major highway? What's the property like? Is it in the bottom of a valley where you can be shot at? Are you on the top of a hill where you can see everything?
Consider all of these when you are making Plans A,B,C,D,E,F...and even G...
Now you have plan A. Go to a place where you can buy a 50# bag of flour. Dry can it. Put it in vermin proof containers. Get pickling salt, save it. Get spices, liquor, trade goods, bullets, etc.
Then move on to Plan B. Take a big PVC pipe...a BIG one. Seal one end up. Use the food vacume sealing thing in the kitchen you forgot the name of, and seal up bags of flour, salt, sugar, yeast, baking powder, powdered eggs, spices, canning/pickling/iodized salt, powdered vanilla, tylenol, bullets, a gun, a slingshot, and feel good items like a picture, toilet paper (when vacume packed forms a cool little package...that no one can guess what it is!) booze, chocolate, sewing supplies, underpants, socks...Stuff that BIG pvc pipe as full as you can get it. Then screw the other end on and put a bead of caulk around where the end cap and the pvc pipe meet.
Do that in several places. Hide it, bury it, cover it, shove it in an old stump, but keep it there. Word of warning: If you put booze in it...only use liquor that will not freeze, otherwise if you try to save beer, you will HAVE to bury it beneath the frostline in your local area...or it will freeze and smell up/contaminate your other gear.
Use the vacume sealer for clothes also. Buy a roll and put a change of your kids clothes into it...then seal it up and shove that into the pvc pipe also. You want to make sure you seal both the pvc and the individual bags is that you will be less likely to incur water damage. Above all, HIDE YOUR CACHE WELL!
IF you find an abandoned house, DO NOT hide your cache in the floor of the basement. What if someone bulldozes it. Now your cache is 15 feet deep and how will you ever find it?
In places near your cache spot, you can also put a secondary cache. This one will be buried more than six feet deep. It will ideally be a metal trunk but anything will work in a pinch.
Dig a hole about six feet deep...OR wherever the deepest frostline your area has ever had. Use a big rubber maid container, Trash can...whatever you can...and put it it, cans and cans of food! Imagine if you will a SHTF scenario. Do you have any idea how good a can of corned beef hash and peaches will be after you have been running for your life for a while? It will (almost literally) be a Godsend.
You get my drift now..have several spots you can go to, hide at, bug out to etc.USe them wisely. Cover your tracks, cover your dig spots good. Keep your mouth's shut. Keep your eyes open and always BE SAFE. The world needs you. We need you. Plan on plan A not working, then work your way from there. IF we ever need too, I am sure we will see each other out there.
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