10 Bugout Shelters Places You Need to Consider

7 years ago i moved our family out to the country. We're 1 - 1.5 hours by vehicle away from any major metropolitan area. We're on a well. Have fairly large solar array w/ battery backup. Have full house generator. Raise livestock and have large garden on property. Have roughly 1 year of food stores for entire household. This will be our last stand God willing. Not looking to bug out. They'll have to kill me to get me to move or get our preps.

In most situations, "Bug In" is still the best option. Only abandon your property in extreme situations.

"Well, I've got a little cabin up in the mountains, it's fully stocked with everything I will need to get by for a few months, I started to walk up to it , and bullets started zinging by my head, and someone yelled out, THATS CLOSE ENOUGH, lo and behold, someone else was already there, and was telling ME to go back to where I came from..... " a VERY LIKELY scenario....!!!

I have lived 4-5 months at a time in a tent, and learned some things, always pack extra tarps even good tent leak occasionally, a tarp to line the floor and put over the top will help keep you dry, they can also be strung outside for a place to stand or sleep undercover when you need extra space. they can be strung inside to make privacy curtains when packed in the tent. packing three or four 10x10 tarps is a good precaution.

Bug in like it's the Alamo , never , ever surrender.

Bugging out is like leaving a sinking ship. People in the city will certainly be refugees. Being out alone is very hard to do. Your home is your castle. Your last stand. Prepare, prepare, prepare.

I will be looking for the nearest 5-star! 😂But seriously, I’m almost 69 years old. I don’t want to be on the road! I’d be very afraid of a FEMA camp!

I'm a police officer. Sorry in a shtf event most Leo are heading home to protect their families. Many departments have organised groups and a place to bug out to already built. In a shtf event pay is going to stop. And family is far more important than putting your life on the line with no medical services and no pay.

I'm staying put. I live out past the sticks. The last 10yrs we have made serious preps. Most expensive has been a water windmill. (you would be surprised.) We raise a big garden every year, can, and dehydrate produce. We have Spanish meat goats. I sell a bunch of those every year. I do not have anywhere to go, don't want to go, and refuse to leave. Come and Take It.

I often think about SHTF midday when everyone is scattered either at work, or school etc I’m home with our toddler, two older kids are in two different schools and my husband is at work. Would schools go into a lockdown? Could I actually go get my children out? What would the roads look like? Would we have cell phone service so we can communicate where to meet?? I remember right before we fled my home country before the war broke out, my mom and dad were at work, we were in school. We got home from school, my mom got home from work and immediately started packing us up. My dad couldn’t leave with us. He became a POW sadly. We met with our family at the local bus station and we left to a nearby city… and we basically went city to city staying with different ppl where war hadn’t broken out yet until we made it across the boarder into a neighboring country who took us in as refugees. What helps is having something of value to barter with. My mom had some money on her and would buy groceries for the ppl who let us stay for a few days. The scary part was we narrowly escaped the war. But right before the war broke out, all banks ceased citizens bank accounts and no one was allowed to withdraw anything. My mom had some money on her she kept at home. Anyway .. I could tell stories on my childhood as a refugee. When SHTF, it hits quick and you have to be quick thinking. Make a plan and make sure you have something of value to barter with. It will always come down to how people help each other. You can’t do it alone.

Suggestions. 1. I knew Ron Hood. Went to his retreat. It would have been impossible for him to survive there. He had two good points to relate. First, he would bug out on the railroad tracks on a motorcycle. No dealing with traffic. Second, he had two supply hides prepared under ground along his 110 mile route. 2. Me? I had to deal with situations like walking out of Iran into Afghanistan with my wife and later raising an infant alone with bug out plans. The reality is that you are urban And, if you are not urban, you are not more than one tank of gasoline away thousands and thousands of people who will be in distress. Option: Rent storage space and put goodies in their on your desired flight route. Don't you think it is stupid that people flee a hurricane just to sit in a traffic jam and can't find a room? Put a cheap surplus sleeping bag, a 5 gallon jug of water and some food in with your stored junk on a route outside of town. Option. Prepare your passenger car so that you can go to ground in an underground parking structure for a week. Forget the b.s. about bugging out to the country. Ok. I have 120 acre woodlot with a stream, wild game. Will be hunted out in two weeks by the locals. I manage a family farm. If it is the right time of year, it will be striped clean of food. It is on a one lane road. Approximately 2000 down and outers live on that one lane road before you get to a two lane road. If you are going to make it, it will be in a group. Get the book on the Biliski brothers and learn how they organized 1000 people with disparate backgrounds to survive during a war.

Be aware of potentially stirring up dust particulates in some of these abondoned structures, as most likely rodents have done their business in there and inhaling could introduce you to the Hantavirus.

At 61, my "overnight fun bag" is 50# total w/bushcraft fun stuff. I could "die last" maybe but thrive, survive (forever)? Fantasy. Get home bag from 1,000 miles away? Ballsy but I'd do it. But in SHTF? Just another target. I'll stand here. Luv the vids sir! Always good stuff.

I live in one of those places people say they will bug out to. Odds are good you won’t be welcomed

In New Orleans during the hurricane the cops were worst then the looters

It's better to be five years early than on hour late. When everyone is bugging out from the city is the time to think and stay put.

Bugging out is only an option if you have a place to bug out to. Doing the lone wolf thing up here in Canada….? Death sentence. If you actually have an alpha site and/or bravo site, good. Leave before it gets too bad. Add in kids. Add in pets. It gets harder and harder. Folks, if you are worried or just have common sense for when things get bad, you need a community. Like minded patriots with skills. Ex military, tradesmen, medical, herbalist, gardening, farming, hunters. Build these communities now. Start communication with these people and have a plan. Practice that plan and when the time comes…initiate that plan and be prepared to physically and mentally defend it. Stay true folks. Times are getting really dark. Be a light in that darkness. God bless.

One thing to keep in mind if bugging out with a vehicle: most entrances to abandoned parking lots,roads , driveways,etc., will be roped off with cables, and they won't always have brightly colored flags on them like they're supposed to, so be careful you don't end up getting garroted.

I've lost my mobility due to health and, thankfully, live rural. Bugging out is not an option, so I keep reinforcing my property a bit at a time.

I’m a retired fire, chief and emergency management, Director and one of the places in Florida you bug out temporarily when hurricanes are coming are interstate rest areas on the opposite side of the coast from where the hurricane is going to make landfall