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Originally Posted by 7624U
Pete how many trips would it take to move all your stuff that you need from your house to your in-laws? and what would you sacrafice if lets say you could only make 2 trips.......
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With a full size truck and mini-van the generator (for the freezers), all the food, and all the guns/ammo can go in them. Cloths, glowing box (so I can tall to you guys), things of value/pictures can go in the SUV and car. Nice to have 4 drivers for the next few years. I'd come back with the truck and get every bit of tools, nails, scrap wood, boards, canvas and tarps I could pull out of the house, garage and storage building.
The route is through a subdivision so I see no great worry there. Just those four vehicles have 62 gallons of gas while the in-laws have another 32 gallons. 5 gallons in the generator and two 5 gallon cans gives us a total of over 100 gallons of gas for the generator. I stress to the females to keep the vehicle tanks full. If it gets close to a half tank fill it up. Generally when I jump in one of their cars the gas light comes on and they say "Don't worry, we have at least enough for 20 miles or so."
Plan to drain gas from the less useful cars/van first keeping one high MPG car for zipping in and out if required and keeping the two pickups full if bug out to the beach house is required. Hate to go there but it is low population most of the time and is close to a fresh water source and a food source, the waterway & ocean.
I see all of the above as kind of a worst case deal. As in a "few days" of the world/state/city situation going down hill. A storm would hit you instantly if you blew off the weather reports.
I see something like the bird flue taking a few days to get rolling. The first day would see the panic buying at the stores. The second day everybody would be sitting at home grumpy because they didn't get their fair share. The third day all those people get together and say "Lets take our fair share from those that have it."
Can you see trying to get your neighbor to move in with you so you can burn his house down to clear a field of fire?
Man, talk about end times. Of the five houses around my in-laws four are frame and all have retired couples living in them.
So want does the average person think about and see as they drive around the neighborhood? Dang, it kinda' gets back to that SA thing.
Pete