BOBBI 2

BOBBI 2

Most folks concentrate on what to store in a BOB.  As in, you are going to live out of your bag.  And what you keep in your BOBBI bag is important, but it isn’t inclusive.  You need your cache.  And by necessity, it is going to be a minimalist cache.  As I said, old dudes digging major caches in the wilderness probably isn’t very realistic.  From my experience, three 5 gallon buckets is probably the maximum you want to shoot for, being able to quickly dig a hole that won’t explode your heart and leave your corpse to rot and/or become coyote bait.

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So, I’ll shoot for that storage space for a cache.  The home cache?  I’d try for an IBC 330 gallon container ( the pallet size in a cage ), buried and covered with a concrete slab.  The concrete can be QuikCrete or similar, it doesn’t have to break the bank.  And neither does the tote, if you are near enough to a city that sells them new and reconditioned.  Digging the hole mechanically might cost more than the container and shoring.  Of course, you might have such a wet climate then there would be the cost of a cement hole.

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Here I’m thinking that you want a spot in the wild that while it won’t be completely deserted, it also won’t be a natural spot to flee to in a disaster.  It won’t be a spot the dregs of society go to pitch their tents and tarps ( and there will be a crap ton of new dregs as mass unemployment and crime surges ).  You won’t be able to avoid everyone, but you are buying time trying to avoid all those people you would have to deal with back at the house.

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Bugging in, the potential of mobs is ever present.  I don’t necessarily believe that everyone knows about your closet full of freeze dried beef rectums, but just being White, with the proof you used to have a job in the form of your house, might incite the ire of the Unworthy.  Mobs are usually by definition the Have Not’s that want stuff, your stuff.  I don’t look at it as lazy welfare pukes stealing, rather it is more like class warfare.  You know, like us former middle class want to do to the 1%.  And we will be just as deadly in our hate as the lower classes.

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I see an economic implosion that seizes up all trade and transportation.  We will go from crime to deadly mobs to anarchy in a few short quick steps ( especially as I’m sure the Chinese will activate all their Kill Switch’s on every computer chip made for the last twenty years, bringing in a US wide EMP-like effect as soon as the panic and discontent get moving ).  I could be wrong, but I’d wager I’d rather contend with the odd guy bugging out to live on bear and badgers than the suburb mobs.

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In the wilderness you have mobility and concealment, both which are lacking in town.  It is far from ideal, and yes, I’d also feel more comfortable sleeping within walls, even if only sheetrock and stick lumber, than being exposed in the forest.  But I think for most folks not in the way of refugee drift, or at a desirable camp site, the trade-off will be worth it.  Just think what a squad size group can do to your house, with a trio of rimfire rifles.  Four separate groups pin you down and breach your walls.

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Yes, they don’t really know if you have supplies. True.  But after a few days of casualties, they could easily evolve a simple tactic.  Sharpshooters cover the windows, and a team with picks or axes on each side of the house simultaneously breach and Molotov.  While you put one out, the other one draws the air in from the doused side and soon the interior is afire. All your stocks of semi-auto carbine rounds go up in the fire, as you didn’t have time to kill off the whole mob.  Sure it wouldn’t be better to be elsewhere?

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The mobs will mob because they can.  No other reason.  If a minority group wants to take over a location ( never mind it will lose it to starvation quickly thereafter.  Income redistribution mobs aren’t always the sharpest pencils in the box ), they do so by securing supplies quickly, helping to starve the majority out, and intimidating the living with barbaric acts.  You could be one of the initial victims, so they don’t stop trying to kill you, period.  It isn’t about supplies per se.  Those are just bonuses.  The mobs will be ignorant drop-out unemployed losers, with uncommon street smarts.

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So perhaps being gone for a month wouldn’t be the worst idea.  Your house might be burned to the ground when you get back.  That is why you home cache and avoid the easy to dig up areas.  Have a plan of some kind of re-build or substitute shelter.  I pick a month because there won’t be that much food around to keep most of the population alive by then, plus one months of wheat calories fit into a single five gallon plastic bucket.  A second bucket will contain the supplemental denser calories such as butter, peanut butter, cooking oil, jerky or what have you. 

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Add some compact wool clothing such as socks and hats.  Changes of underwear and cotton socks.  The third bucket is the grinder, ammunition, or supplies of that nature.  Perhaps a hatchet and small saw for building a primitive shelter.  It just needs to be coffin size.  Perhaps you build a couple of shelters beforehand, then finish them up being more secure and more stealthy.  This is an emergency stash.  Not a luxury stash.  Not an everything and the kitchen sink stash.  BOB the big but light items there, such as tent and ground pad. 

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Primitive camping for a month, and hopefully you avoid a great deal of unpleasantness.  It won’t be secure and boring.  You’ll need to patrol, booby trap, secure secondary fall back positions.  You’ll be sleeping poorly, listening for approaching walkers.  But if you were in town, you’d be trying to sleep through the neighbor being tortured, and wondering when it was going to be your turn.  The civil war coming might not be you having time to valiantly armoring up and going to fight for liberty.  It just might be the swarming attacks of mobs with no outside assistance for you. 

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