Day 24: How to bug in EFFECTIVELY…
Bugging in: Bugging in, what does this even mean? Bugging out means leaving the area you're in because it is now dangerous and inhospitable. Bugging in means Sheltering and hunkering down to stay in place because that's wiser than trying to go somewhere else. Am absolute majority of time bugging in is the right idea. With this in mind we need to understand what preparations need to happen in order to make bugging in successful. Everyone talks about 72-hour kits and this drives me nuts. Who of you reading right now cannot turn the power off and live in your house for 72 hours? If not, you have a lot of planning to do. Therefore I think your bug in plan or your shelter-in-place plan needs to be at least 3 months. Now that we have a goal we can adjust our expectations and come up with a realistic plan. If I need to live in my house for 3 months, how much water do I need? Well, I need at least one gallon per person per day, do the math. Store that amount of water or have a way to get and purify and clean that amount of water for your home. How much do I eat in 3 months? You can answer this by taking an inventory of what you eat in a week, multiplying it by 4 weeks and 3 months and that gives you how much you need to store. Your plan needs to include some way to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. But how you might ask. Well the answer is what did your ancestors do before electricity? In the Mojave Desert if anyone has ever visited Scotty's Castle the way that they used to cool that building is by placing wet rugs and cloth in front of open windows. The air would blow through and cool off the entire inner sanctum of the house. Growing up in Southeastern Idaho we used a wood-burning fire to heat our house all winter long. I know that not everyone's house has that capacity, but I urge you to only purchase a house that can be heated with wood fire if needed. This came in handy when a few years ago Texas went through a cold snap. Any house over 100 years old was fine because they all had wood burning stoves. if you find yourself in a place like an apartment, maybe consider a kerosene heater with cracked windows to keep you warm. If all else fails, set up a tent in your living room, stack all your sleeping bags inside of that microclimate and climb on in. With a well-defined problem we can have a well-defined goal and Implement a well-defined solution. So act today, figure out what it takes to live in your house for 3 months with the power off and start planning. Good luck!
step by step of how to EFFECTIVELY bug in
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