[JRandomFreeper]

I've spent over a year doing the mountain man thing. I can literally be dropped naked pretty much anywhere in North America, and survive. I have those skillsets.

Dear Lord, it sucks, though. A lot.

I'd rather be home with my tools, my stuff, my neighbors, etc...

If a tornado flattens the house, I'll put up a tarp and still stay here and go through the remains to rebuild.

/johnny

[hummingbird]

"I've spent over a year doing the mountain man thing. I can literally be dropped naked pretty much anywhere in North America, and survive. I have those skillsets."

This sounds smart, but I'm not sure about the naked part. Seems kind of vulnerable.

Just sayin'.........!

[SW6906]

"I'd rather be home with my tools, my stuff, my neighbors, etc... If a tornado flattens the house, I'll put up a tarp and still stay here and go through the remains to rebuild."

Me too. I've told the wife that whatever disaster strikes the home - even fire - there are still going to be things we can salvage from the wreckage to survive. And I think we'd do better in familiar surroundings.

[Truth29]

"I've spent over a year doing the mountain man thing. I can literally be dropped naked pretty much anywhere in North America, and survive. I have those skillsets."

Washington, DC, East of the Anacostia? :-)

[Marcella]

I don't understand the “all or nothing” people - like, “I'm definitely not leaving”, or “I'm definitely going to the woods.” It depends on the problem. I get hurricanes through here but I'm not on the coast - about 100 miles from the coast but Ike tore up a lot here and power was out 5 days. I'm not leaving for a hurricane - am well prepared to live well for as long as it takes for power to come back on.

However, if the next hurricane takes the roof off my house or throws one or two big trees into the house and I can't stay here, I'll take my two bug out bags, other things I have prepared and go to the nearest place I can stay.

Tornados come here and there is no place to go to miss one as no one knows when one will come to your particular location. I have a safe bathroom to wait out a tornado warning - which means one on the ground. If the house falls down around me, I've got the two bug out bags in that bathroom. That is everything one would need for six days.

I am safer in this house than anywhere else because I made it this way. But, I can leave if my individual house is destroyed but in that case all of humanity won't be on the roads. As long as my house is standing, I'm not leaving and I'm fine.

[Tax-chick]

You are an example.

(That was a comprehensive compliment: I’m tired and short of Quality Adjectives right now.)