Emergency planning - escape route/go bag

[Anonymous]

Do you have an emergency plan in place? A go bag ready? All of the turmoil that is going on right now makes me uneasy. We have a safe place to go but we would have to get out of the DMV first. DH wants to get a go bag ready, straws that filter water, cash and guns. Is this all unnecessary?

[Anonymous]

No. But if he wants a go bag to reduce his anxiety, I think you should let him do that, minus the guns. With that level of panic, he's liable to shoot himself in the foot.

[Anonymous]

Being ready to need to go to your safe place isn't a terrible back up plan to have. Pretty much the only thing I would have ready in that case is some cash.

Purchasing guns is ridiculous (and I'm not necessarily completely anti gun). And if you're at the point of needing filter straws, it's probably too late to get out of the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. But if he wants a go bag to reduce his anxiety, I think you should let him do that, minus the guns. With that level of panic, he's liable to shoot himself in the foot.

Or shoot someone else because he is in this heightened state of awareness.

[Anonymous]

What exactly does your husband think is going to happen in which he needs filter straws and guns?

[Anonymous]

The guns are really bad idea. They’ll just be used on you or escalate an already bad situation.

Any thoughts about where you will go? If there is nuclear strike, Georgia is supposedly ok but you’ll need to hunker down for weeks until it’s safe to come out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly does your husband think is going to happen in which he needs filter straws and guns?

OP - pretty sure he thinks the water is going to be poisoned and that all the Republicans with guns will be coming to get Democrats. OR we will actually be at war with a foreign adversary on US soil.

Plan is to get the hell out of dodge and go to our family house by the Canadian boarder.

[Anonymous]

I will start with digging a tunnel going south.

[Anonymous]

Not a bad idea. I used to work in CA, and the company I worked for (FAANG) gave out an earthquake preparedness backpack. I still have it, thought the water and protein bars need to be throw out.

[Anonymous]

We plan on being in the first or second wave of casualties. We have no survival skills and are weak.

This works for the zombie apocalypse too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly does your husband think is going to happen in which he needs filter straws and guns?

OP - pretty sure he thinks the water is going to be poisoned and that all the Republicans with guns will be coming to get Democrats. OR we will actually be at war with a foreign adversary on US soil.

Plan is to get the hell out of dodge and go to our family house by the Canadian boarder.

For us, we'd go up to Canada, then take a flight to the UK where my spouse is from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We plan on being in the first or second wave of casualties. We have no survival skills and are weak.

This works for the zombie apocalypse too.

Same. I want to be dead before I see the light.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being ready to need to go to your safe place isn't a terrible back up plan to have. Pretty much the only thing I would have ready in that case is some cash.

Purchasing guns is ridiculous (and I'm not necessarily completely anti gun). And if you're at the point of needing filter straws, it's probably too late to get out of the DMV.

I think the point of filter straws is, if you have to walk out of the DMV, and hike to Southern VA or something, you may need to use unclean water sources along the way as we have to asssume you won't be able to stop for a Coke at McDonalds along the journey.

[Anonymous]

We don't have one, but I have pieces strewn about. I definitely wouldn't include a gun.

[Anonymous]

Where ya going?