After reading Selco’s post……….
I’m not stuck on stay or evac. We set up to be able to run IF we’d have to. MUCH rather not EVAC AT ALL, seeing we’re already in the boonies. But sometimes there is NO choice.
However….hmm, yeah, I am pretty much oriented specifically for EVAC involving WILDFIRE.
Having some sort of Red Dawn Event…..someone coming up the long road/driveway with guns….THAT would change the whole scenario. Cuz then we’d be heading out the back door and up into the hills. In my case, I might have to play “baby bear” and just run up a thick tree to hide. Even adrenalin won’t take my legs too far…up/down steep hills, tho I’m building stamina for flat. Good thing I’m usually wearing muted colors. Yes I HAVE scouted a couple trees and could climb them. Hate being treed tho. Hmph!
If it were not wildfire, but human danger of some kind, and we had that 5 minutes and would be leaving by vehicle….I’d change just a couple things quickly. But honestly, a vehicle evac from these roads would quickly place you in a hours-long traffic jam on the few gravel roads. I’ve got Forest Service maps but you can get into some real axle-breaking situations on those after all these eroding rains. We do carry shovels in vehicles to do rutted road repair….that takes time/energy.
In a Red Dawn Event…..[ referring to the old movie…enemy parachutes into middle America. I’m FAR from any country borders or shorelines] I can’t really even imagine a sensible Evac plan from here. Deeper….Higher? Grabbing the horses might be a better plan… stay off the roads and find like-minded friends to join up. Shrug. Need to dye those hunter-ORANGE saddlebags. Wire cutters!
….the old/disabled are not good candidates for survival-on-the-move, but we’d try anyway…. I’d need a Backdoor BOB!!!
@ scott w…… “leave her for the bears” ? {roll eyes} 😉
OldMtWoman …hmph, thinking of a DIFFERENT flavor of Evac…uff tah!