a perfect plan

A PERFECT PLAN


None of us has a perfect survival plan. Rawles is in a high traffic area come the collapse. Everybody “knows” that Idaho is the place to be to survive. Of course, he also has a remote retreat that he farms so his positives outweigh his negatives. At least on paper. Creekmore has a mild climate and is near family, although the area is on the heavy population side ( east of the Mississippi even remote areas are surrounded by teeming masses of asshats ). I live in an area that no one in their right mind wants to be in to survive, but it will be a rugged existence and I’m far more likely to survive an economic collapse than a civilization collapse. Even our smaller population here presents a formidable foe. No one, let alone the experts ( media acknowledged or self-proclaimed ), has a perfect plan. Some of us have better plans than others, true. But no one will be without challenges. This is a big reason why we are here. To talk through everything so that some know where to start and other know what loopholes in their plans they need to plug. Yes, at times my sarcasm and hatred might impress upon you that you are indeed a stupid honky mo-fo without a clue in creation about what you are doing. I won’t dismiss the occasional intention to educate you for your own good, but mostly this is just a discussion group. I really don’t think you are THAT much of a dumbass.

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For every action there is a reaction and for every survival plan there is a downside. You know the heating oil will run out so you build a passive solar earth home. Then your property taxes go up so high you are threatened with insolvency. You want to prep right so you stay at a good paying job, which is in a city with high crime. You move out to the country to avoid urban crime and are accidentally raided in a meth lab bust instead of your neighbor. You want to kill off invading mobs so you buy a lot of semi-auto ammo and can’t afford to buy food so after the collapse you are using that ammo to bag two legged game. Or, you concentrate on food storage and are killed by the first mob of hungry city folk ( unlike previous famines, Americans are so fat now that they will have plenty of energy to take food when they need it ). You move out to the middle of nowhere to help yourself survive and then you can’t afford gasoline. I could go on and on. No plan is a great plan. Some are more feasible and realistic than others. Bugging out of L.A. is a pretty bad idea ( as is living there ) since there are too many chokepoints and far too many people. Bugging out of a much smaller town using secondary roads might work. The thing to do is to assume how your plans could get foiled and try to work around them. Or realize they are impossible.

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Back to my original Carson City bug out plan. I knew it would be much smarter to go up into the Sierras even if all of California would be starting up the other side. If I had chosen to seriously plan on bugging out to Elko I would have had to put a bit more thought into it than I did. I would not have felt comfortable with a vehicle escape. Too much would have gone wrong since only two roads led up there. So I would have planned for a secondary hike. But obviously the lack of water ( the stretch north of Reno was infamous for killing off the immigrants 150+ years ago ) the first half of the way would have dictated I bring my own. Which would have slowed me down with the need to haul a cart rather than just walk. So my original two week time frame was pretty silly. I didn’t think this all through until just now, after the comments section got me to thinking. I hadn’t thought it through earlier since I was so focused on relocating at present time. Which means my secondary plans for escaping Carson were poor, almost worthless. I had the “into the mountains” plan and the “down to the river in the Hippie Bread Van” plan. Neither was very feasible. But, hey, I had a plan. If I poke fun of your plan, just remember mine just three years ago sucked. And my plan now? Not too much better. I’m at a great location, in my own estimation if no one else’s, but I’ll be ill prepared to deal with the unrest of the other natives. I almost have no other option than to bribe a tribe with free guns and wheat. But of course that isn’t feasible right now. I might brag on how easy it is to live frugal, but there are definite limits to what I can do.

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I’m no better than the average prepper, hoping I have a bit more time to do a little something more to improve my chances. What I’ve done is impressive to myself, if nobody else. I’ve come a long way in a short time. And I have so much farther to go. I don’t panic because of the elementary steps I’ve already taken. The “better than nothing” ones. And there is no reason to panic about the things I can’t do much about. When I tell you to panic, I’m telling you to get those basic necessities yesterday. Then, you can relax and improve in increments. You must be prepared for the worse. The tomorrow-we-all-die event. But once that is done you can go with the leisurely Yuppie plan. You can’t do all of it at once, the near-as-possible perfect plan. But you can cover the basics quickly. Yesterday quickly. The wheat/bolt gun/filter and grinder plan is affordable to everyone. When that is done you can slowly build up to much better. Don’t get discouraged that your plan sucks. If no plan is perfect, you can’t achieve perfection. Just keep trying to improve. Keep an open mind as to your plans flaws. And don’t relax your pace if all seems well at times. In the end, for all the work and money, you might be one of the first to die through dumb blind luck. Or a flaw in your plan you didn’t see. So just enjoy the journey. Do all you can. You sleep better at night, even if you know the plan will never be completed. The basic supplies are a bedrock peace of mind. I’m paid to worry about all the problems out there and I’m not losing any sleep. Got basics?

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