Hypothetical #3: Plan A Just Blew Away (or was flooded or a landslide just buried it or ....)

[Cheryl Nelson]

This hypothetical is courtesy of Sizzle:

The best shelter is to have a least a dozen different strategies in your head that you have actually practiced, on how to make a makeshift shelter out of nothing, on the fly.  Because the most likely scenario is that your current shelter will be wiped out or you will have to move somewhere else to safety.  You have only to look at any of the natural disasters that have taken place to see that this is so.  Everyone likes to think that they can't stay in their familiar surroundings and comfort zone and just batten down the hatches with all their carefully stored supplies, but it doesn't usually happen like that.  This is a good time for a "hypothetical" on what you could use for a shelter if your existing or hoped-for shelter was destroyed or didn't pan out.

*someone's else's abandoned home

*a public building

* an abandoned vehicle

*a dumpster or trash container

* cave or large burrow

*scrap metal or salvaged metal debris

*large plastic containers or plastic sheeting

*tree boughs, leaf shelters, thatch, palm fronds

*culverts, drainpipes, other large diameter tubing not in danger of flooding

*underpasses and bridges

The list goes on and on....there are many possibilities....the point is to look around now with imagination and notice what could be used for immediate shelter and improved upon if possible later.  Think it through now, before TSHTF.  This is not to say that one shouldn't choose and prepare a great shelter full of supplies now, but that's only just Plan A.

WHAT'S YOUR PLAN B (and C and D and E ....)?

[Cheryl Nelson]

You do what you have to do.  I would have a third back-up plan.  Remember the adage:  three is two, two is one, and one is none.

[Tammy Fielder]

My family here and on the east coast have a plan on where to meet (down to the exit and mile marker).  I have a back-up plan for them and myself so we can reunite.  I have 95% of my bug our bags complete with the exception of a few small items.  I have made copies of maps (my original route and my back-up), seeds in the freezer, stock of rice and dry beans, tent, etc.  I have stockpiled toothpaste, toothbrushes, tylenol, etc just in case.  My other is SLOWLY coming around but it is easier for me to say it is for a hurricane.lol  

[Alex Cortes]

Great post to get us thinking.... thank you.

[Cheryl Nelson]

Yes, every day now.  Most people want to keep the blinders on, but it's time for them to come off.  Otherwise, the shock will be overwhelming.

[Dianna Spencer]

Thanks for the exercise.. IT is time to take off the blinders, I'm afraid... And we are in for a wild ride... This did give me some good ideas.. and thank you for that..  As for myself, I have been in denial that this horror could actually occur whereI am, and yet, it is on the news everyday...