Is Your Bug Out Bag Going To Get You Killed?

Yikes. I live on the Wisconsin peninsula, so I’m on a Great Lakes shore as well. But the Bay seems to be quite far beneath the bridges, so I can’t imagine how it could rise to meet the distance between. As you say I suppose that the flood water could easily arrive by rain, though. I’ve only lived here since July and no one has mentioned any previous times of flood in this area, but then I also haven’t inquired about it.

I’m a single mother of a 14 year-old son who thought for a long time that I wouldn’t be able to afford to prep. Well, four months later I seem to have acquired everything but the kitchen sink. An insane amount of supplies for every possible scenario. Quite to my surprise I seem to have filled the 1 red backpack I started with (an actual pre-made 72 hour kit bag, which is enhanced) plus 2 new sleeping bags, another backpack, and a large tote bag, plus, lol, one of those portable toilets that are used with bags for a more civilized toileting experience.

All of this and I still don’t have enough room to put one change of clothes into the tote bag for my son and I. Oh but I do have four pairs of wool socks to help protect our feet come winter. Also, the pandemic protection items I ordered are probably a bit over the top, but I was envisioning bugging in most likely considering I’m in an old stone and concrete building on a main street flanked by many other buildings just like, and protected from the winds by the two neighboring buildings which jut out well beyond my back porch on either side. Survivable, I think, in case of those 100 to 300 mph winds that Remote Viewer Major Ed Dames talks about. In addition to the economy collapsing and a huge pandemic striking us of which we already have two candidates, and then the kill-shot solar flares…

One concern I have is that I don’t quite understand the logic of having a sparse bug-out bag. Survival for 3 days is great, but what about after that? Any situation that would warrant bugging out probably isn’t going to be resolved within 72 hours. And unless a person is a well-trained survivalist, options thereafter could be rather grim. I guess I’m envisioning that, if needed, a safe evacuation will be possible, one other than FEMA prison/reeducation camps…

I do have a few gardens’ worth of heirloom seeks, though. And laminated charts showing when to plant what and which veggies and fruits like growing next to each other. And a card deck which teaches how to forage for edible wild plants.

Maybe it’s unrealistic for a 47 year-old single mother who is not in good shape to think she even has a chance of survival. But I have been through three situations in my life that I can guarantee would have been the death of most other women. Yet somehow I intuitively knew how to handle each situation verbally and spiritual energy-wise. So what I lack in experience I make up for with a razor-sharp, almost wild animal-type instinct. I’m a Year of the Snake person – and I can coil and strike if forced. And though I don’t have a gun, I do have a sizeable container of pepper spray and a new wicked good knife and 50 ft. of paracord and a way of psyching out people that leaves them looking like they’ve seen a ghost.

Anyway, as you can tell my bug-out bag is looking more like bug-in bags. Nevertheless they’re all packed by the door and ready to go. I do live in a quiet summer tourist-type town of 9000-10,000 actual residents, so I’m thinking most people would remain rational here, at least for a while. And, I guess if I did have to leave, the initial pre-made bug-out bag that I’ve fortified with extra space blankets, hand & foot warmers, emergency water pouches, emergency food bars and much more, is what I would grab.

I guess I’ve written too much but I must say I am quite proud of myself for being such a quick learner and for amassing enough supplies that could help my son and survive for at least a couple of months, plus all our outdoor cooking supplies & stove. Now I just need to get a large tarp or two, some medicinal Colloidal Silver, and a lot more food. Between my food bars, freeze-dried and cans I have here I figure I’ve got at least 5-6 weeks set, especially if I really limit my calories.

Major Dames does say that some parts of the country will be like something out of the Mad Max movie. I’m hoping the Wisconsin peninsula isn’t one of them. But the next big threat is the meltdown of a nearby nuclear power plant to the Southwest. I have 20 P100 paper-based respirators and snug-fitting goggles, and even a couple of the half-mask filter-based respirators. Which reminds me I need sterile medical gloves and more first aid supplies. Lol, I’m obsessed. It’s amazing I’ve been able to pay our rent, utilities, Internet with all my enthusiastic prepper shopping. But somehow I have. Any comments are welcome.