Posted on 04/30/2022 7:13:34 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
If you’re a prepper living in the city, you need to have an emergency preparedness plan before SHTF so you can bug in or bug out as needed. If you’re not sure where to start, learn about the six principles of survival and prepare a bug-out bag. (h/t to SurvivalCache.com)
Wilderness survival skills like fire starting, hunting, building a shelter and water purification techniques are all valuable skills, but you need to adapt if you want to survive in the city when SHTF.
When planning for an urban disaster scenario, you should also focus on situational awareness, personal protection, planning and preparation.
Urban survival know-how is divided into two different scenarios:
Small scale or personal events like a robbery, mugging, carjacking or home invasion. Large-scale urban survival events like civil unrest, economic collapse or natural disasters. 6 Principles of urban survival Urban survival depends on the application and use of six principles. Learn about these principles to prepare before SHTF in an urban setting.
Planning Planning is essential to your success as a prepper. Without a plan, you have no direction, no defined objectives and no documentation of your progress.
Your goal is to get supplies, train and prepare for most urban survival situations.
First, figure out which tools you need for your survival stockpile or bug-out bags. Next, draft an emergency preparedness plan so your family can figure out what to do and where to go when SHTF.
Have a minimum of four operational plans: a natural disaster plan, a bug out plan, a fire plan and a home invasion or robbery plan.
Preparation In a survival situation, preparation could mean the difference between living and dying. When disaster strikes in an urban setting, you might lose access to food, water, electricity, transportation and security.
Before SHTF, stock up on food so you can survive a long-term disaster at home. And before things are bad enough to require evacuation, you should also prepare bug-out bags and secure a safe bug-out location.
Training and practice If you successfully learn prepping skills like navigation or self-defense, take time to train and practice so you can use your skills efficiently when you need them.
Invest in important courses about situational awareness, personal protection techniques, firearms training, first aid and physical fitness.
Protection Protection is one of the key elements of surviving when SHTF in an urban survival event.
Always protect yourself first. If you are injured or killed, then you can’t protect your family.
Communication Make sure your smartphone is always charged so you can communicate with your family after disaster strikes. If the communication lines and the internet go down, plan on where and when to meet if you get separated.
Safe haven If you think you need to bug out after SHTF, find and prepare a safe haven. This will be your bug-out location if it becomes too dangerous to stay at home.
You should have two main safe havens:
The first is a room within a facility or your home that is set up to function as a safe place for anyone to avoid any threat. The second is an outside location that you can access to gain protection from a threat that you can’t deal with at home, like a large-scale natural disaster that devastates your neighborhood. 3 Things you need in an urban survival scenario When SHTF, you should prepare a get-home bag (GHB) and a bug-in and bug-out plan.
Get-home bag If you’re still at work when disaster strikes, you will need a GHB with tools that will help you safely reach your family at home.
A GHB should contain things that are going to get you out of the building like a pry bar.
Here are other items that you need in your GHB:
Basic first aid kit Breathing mask Cash Comfortable pair of shoes Food Flashlight Multitool Mylar blanket Poncho Radio Water Some items overlap, but a GHB is not a bug-out bag. Keep your GHB in your car or at work so you can get your gear when SHTF.
A bug-in plan Once you’re safe at home, you might need to bug in. But before SHTF, you need to prepare a bug-in plan.
Your plan should include instructions on what to do if you lose power or water for several days or weeks. Stock up on essentials like food and water for the whole family.
A bug-out plan If you’re at home when SHTF and it’s too dangerous to stay, it’s time to bug out.
Make sure you have a bug-out plan and that the whole family knows what to do if it’s time to evacuate. Try to hide caches along the path to your bug-out location so you can replenish your supplies as needed. (Related: Prepping tips: Scavenging in the city when SHTF.)
Before SHTF, learn how to use a firearm so you can protect your family from looters. Find safe routes and alternate routes to your safe haven.
Prepare your bug-out vehicle if you plan on driving to your bug-out location.
Finalize an emergency preparedness plan for bugging in and bugging out so you can survive when SHTF is in the city.
Urban survival will be 100% about weapons, ammo and the will/skill to use them.
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First rule of urban survival is to leave.
Hording food will starve more poor people.
That’s like filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during a gas shortage.
I am on the outskirts of one of the cities that was a hotbed of riots in 2020. When it all went down, in my defense, I practically turned my home into a German pillbox.
The party is coming Wethersfield you like it or not, best get a chair before the music stops. Moved out of the city when Barry the Muslim was installed and began preparing
It’s better to leave the city now before the disaster happens. Will save a lot of grief trying to get out while avoiding gangs, lawlessness and anarchy.
When the Eletric power stops in the ‘city’...
Your house becomes a bad cave
The water will stop running
The sewer system stops working - impact on you varies by location
No fridge, no stove, no cooking = no food
Stores will close
When the cops don’t show up to work, it is all over....
On the other hand, city life is great - while it lasts.
Ping.
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If you live in Florida and don’t have a go bag (bug out), you are simply nuts.
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I always get a kick out of the urban dweller who thinks they will escape mayhem by rushing out to the wilderness and waiting it out. As if the other Like the million other people in the city are just going to stay put. Bugging In is the most realistic method of waiting out a disaster. That being said... The most likely scenario where one would have to leave would be a natural disaster ( flood, fire, earthquake) so preparing for that is definitely imperative. Prepping your own home is always the best bet.
I always get a kick out of those who call this hoarding. Grasshoppers.
Correction :" Bugging in is the most realistic method of waiting out a disaster..", especially if you have nowhere else to go,
provided that you have already prepped and have (#1)water,(#2)food, (#3) a means to defend , (#4) heat/energy/cook.
Some of the most prepared (campers) I know have already found out through 'trial and error', and have learned more from what they forgot to include in their supplies.
You learn faster and quicker through your errors than you ever will from suggestions or instructions.
Practice makes perfect !
gfto
“The Grasshopper and the Ant.”
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Add to that a rechargeable battery that you can use to charge your phone.
“First rule of urban survival is to leave.”
Yup—that is the second, third, fourth and fifth rule.
There are no more excuses for living in urban areas now—unless you are a billionaire and can afford your own private security team.
Buying extra food when there is plenty and prepping is not hoarding and my doing it when it’s not an issue will not affect someone else in the long run who refused to prep.
Your leftist drivel has no place on FR. If you’re calling prepping “hoarding” you are just carrying water for the left.
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