Posted: 9/11/2011 11:09:25 AM EDT
| Ok, I really need to put this on paper/electronic file for my family but I need some ideas. How are you guys going about this, please add details without giving away your "secrete spot"??? |
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Well I guess the first place to start, be it a bug out situation or a fire drill, is you need to know exactly where you evacing to. After that you'll need to plan a way to get there and what your going to need along the way. After you have that plan together come up with two more just in case. |
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Yeah, that's the easy part. The details is more what I'm looking for. Currently it's just the wife and me, dad and bro live about 25 miles away. I figure we need a somewhat close place if for some reason we can't go home, someplace my immediate family meets and the BO location. BO would probably be the town my in-laws live in which is almost 5hrs away and great location for such.
Wife works 15 min from home but I'm all over town, sometimes nearly an hour away. More looking for details on what,were and how you decided which plan and if you mapped it all out. So I'm thinking protocol for different circumstances. If "X" happens you go to "A" location. This of course is all based on not being able to communicate with each other. Ideas???? |
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Read this yet? For "separated" plans, sit down with the participants and see what they think should happen. It's a good way to get them to remember it and start thinking about it. Make up some plans, then trim out most of it and keep it simple. Be sure to separate "surviving" with "assure one another are OK". Unless you are talking TEOTWAWKI or close to it, the Internet will probably be up for a while. Maybe a few gmail accounts would be a good way to get started. You can keep documents, run a calendar, etc. Avoid local or regional ISPs, the infrastructure there is not dispersed a lot of times and something like a hurricane or wildfires could knock out online storage.
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Wait till you have children, then it gets even more complicated.
The first decision is who is coming to whom. Cross that bridge and the where and why is a lot easier to deal with. Time will influence the decision of where and when and often can be quite fluid. Today you may be here but tomorrow you won't so planning has to be around "If then" based on time involved. Day one wait this long and meet at this time each day etc. with an alternate location for longer time periods are pretty common. This type thinking was used a lot in WWII with displaced people. The recent Canadian version of "War of the Worlds" the main character was to meet up with his family at the Lincoln Memorial while he was the come to and them the shorter distance. One person is the wait person, the other the come to. We've used it often in life, before cell phones, to hook up under predetermined conditions. Many people do a lot without thinking about like "If it rains meet me here" or "We'll meet here and if you leave, leave a message" type things. That's why bars are very common in the old movies for rendezvous. A bar tender is typically a fixed stationary person so capable of taking messages. There are many others of course. Libraries, police stations, hospitals, are popular in movies but about anything works that someone is typically going to be there. In the woods, we'd leave notes or signs. Anyway where I'm getting at is time has to be a factor and a "If then" in place for missing each other. No message means they aren't there yet or didn't make it. Like I said, first line this gets more complicated with more numbers especially children, but it can be addressed. Years ago during an ice storm, everything ground to a halt suddenly and my son was in a school bus. His direction was simple. In that case, he was to come home, this route and not deter from it. I made my way to him and simply picked him up on route. If in school, depending on when and time of travel with the one with the most fixed time being the primary, would be designated to pick him up then if home, our primary rendezvous not available, then our secondary. Its all real Military like just on a simpler scale. If you can't make this LZ make that one and if possible leave a sign on you are. Its amazing what you can do with signs too. A simple symbol that means nothing to anyone else can tell you its your rendezvous person and something as simple as 5:30 H P telling you going home primary route. You just nail your message types, note in bar like i mentioned, chalk on a sidewalk, stones on a path, whatever fits. Everyone in my immediate family has their little symbols that lets us know its them. Nothing really "Top Secret" or anything like that just something simple nobody would give a second thought to. Names and notes that type thing typically have a way of disappearing because, its obvious they mean something and some people are cruel or haughty self righteous. Something that looks common or like a construction worker did it, doesn't even get a second glance. Tj |
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Thanks, I have not read this but working on it now.
Read this yet? For "separated" plans, sit down with the participants and see what they think should happen. It's a good way to get them to remember it and start thinking about it. Make up some plans, then trim out most of it and keep it simple. Be sure to separate "surviving" with "assure one another are OK". Unless you are talking TEOTWAWKI or close to it, the Internet will probably be up for a while. Maybe a few gmail accounts would be a good way to get started. You can keep documents, run a calendar, etc. Avoid local or regional ISPs, the infrastructure there is not dispersed a lot of times and something like a hurricane or wildfires could knock out online storage. |