Y'know I've been avoiding this thread because I really, really want to say, "Good discussion, but this site isn't the place for TEOTWAWKI and just *how* often do we need to repeat ourselves 
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Eric's opening query was for a short term emergency, even if he biased the outcome by the sheeple quote
and I now have a stack of requests to close this thread.....funny how the long rambling responses come from the avowed Survivalists and very few of the 'please close' pm's do so.
Okay, for the umpteenth time.....can we please keep this thread on topic.....as per Eric's first intro query
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Here's a (realistic) scenario. How would you react.
It's 2:30 in the morning. There's loud knocking on your door, it's the police. They tell you there's massive flooding expected and a reservoir a few miles up the valley is already overflowing. You have five minutes to evacuate. There are buses at the end of your street waiting to take you and your neighbours to the local school at the top of the hill.
Staying put at home is not an option.
It's been pouring down for days and everything is sodden. However, you are a bushcrafter and as all good bushcrafters, you have a half decent grab bag by the back door. You have the option to grab your rucsack which contains camping kit (tarp, hammock, stove, spare kit and 72hrs of MRE's) It's just you and your partner (no kids and no pets). You know of bushcrafty places within 10 miles and they are on high ground.
Which do you choose? Go on the bus and stay at a school with everyone else for goodness knows how long. Or take your kit an do your own thing even though it's the middle of the night. (It's summer in this scenario so it'll start getting light within two hours of the evacuation).
Personally, I'd head for the hills with my own grab bag.
Eric
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" Eric's opening query was for a short term emergency, even if he biased the outcome by the sheeple quote
and I now have a stack of requests to close this thread.....funny how the long rambling responses come from the avowed Survivalists and very few of the 'please close' pm's do so. Okay, for the umpteenth time.....can we please keep this thread on topic.....as per Eric's first intro query
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Here's a (realistic) scenario. How would you react.
It's 2:30 in the morning. There's loud knocking on your door, it's the police. They tell you there's massive flooding expected and a reservoir a few miles up the valley is already overflowing. You have five minutes to evacuate. There are buses at the end of your street waiting to take you and your neighbours to the local school at the top of the hill.
Staying put at home is not an option.
It's been pouring down for days and everything is sodden. However, you are a bushcrafter and as all good bushcrafters, you have a half decent grab bag by the back door. You have the option to grab your rucsack which contains camping kit (tarp, hammock, stove, spare kit and 72hrs of MRE's) It's just you and your partner (no kids and no pets). You know of bushcrafty places within 10 miles and they are on high ground.
Which do you choose? Go on the bus and stay at a school with everyone else for goodness knows how long. Or take your kit an do your own thing even though it's the middle of the night. (It's summer in this scenario so it'll start getting light within two hours of the evacuation).
Personally, I'd head for the hills with my own grab bag.
Eric
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