The Bug Out - A short story

[ezypikns]

The point of the story seems to be.......

if you're going to "Bug Out", do so.

Everyone in one auto. If you need gas, get it. Take enough water to last a few days. Firearms to protect yourselves. The main thing is to go. All that running around getting ready when time is so precious? Get the H*ll OUT!

Like LoneStranger said:

when it's time to leave it's time to leave.

 

[dirt_j00]

Can we get an alternate ending?

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

Here's an alternate ending for those complaining.

Larry reached over and saw the bandits about to draw on him. He quickly drew his 1911 loaded with 230gr Black Talons and smoked all three bandits, one shot each directly between the eyes.

As he started to walk back to the car, he stumbled, and noticed a crumpled paper on the ground. He leaned over and picked it up. Upon inspection, he saw this was Obama's birth certificate, proof that he was born in Kenya not the USA.

He could barely contain his excitement as he ate the lunch of canned goods his family had bought at Wal Mart. Just when he thought it could not get any better, a transmission came through the radio. Due to the nuclear explosions, California, NJ, NY, CT, MA, RI, and Wisconsin all fell off the continent into the ocean. Crumbling rocks from the blasts in Denver had naturally constructed a wall made of boulders, at least 300 feet high and several miles thick, between the US and Mexico.

Larry broke out an extra MRE to celebrate. THE END

 

[fiddleharp]

Many major cities have rivers running through them. That's why the ancient Indians and White pioneers chose to live there.
If everybody in town decided to leave at the same time, all roads would quickly become useless deathtraps.
Personally, I would load supplies into a large canoe or inflatable boat and paddle quietly away in the dark, traveling at night and hiding in streamside brush, islands, or under old wharves during the day.
Just between you, me, and the internet, I'll tell you a little secret. I was once homeless for 4-1/2 years in an urban area. In order to avoid harassment from the police and teenaged vandals, I traveled around in a canoe and camped in many of the above-mentioned places along deserted waterfronts.
This system kept me out of trouble when I was down-and-out, and I believe it would be a pretty good bugout mode if TSHTF someday.