NYC Wants yo to ready your « go bag »🧐
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It's great to have a "GO Bag"... but face it. If you're in NYC... where are you going to go and exactly how do you plan to get there?
Most NYC residents don't own a car. I'm sure the city will provide trains to move people out of the city (which the train stations will be packed with people with mile long lines. Be prepared to spend at least 48-hours trying to board a train).
The highways will be packed, so buses won't be going anywhere. Remember when Houston tried to evacuate for Hurricane Rita? People were on the highways for 24-hours only to get 60 miles North of the city. Tens of thousands of vehicles ran out of gas on the highways due to the traffic jams. Houston is 1/3rd the size of NYC... so triple that problem.
What I'm saying is... it's great to have a "GO Bag"... but don't count on going anywhere quickly. Whichever way you plan to get out of the city, be assured it will be a colossal mess and take 10 times longer than you think it might. Also, don't count on police protection while evacuating... or to protect your belongings while you're gone. NO police protection for you or your stuff. The police will have an agenda... and YOU aren't anywhere on that list.
Incidentally, the notice didn't say anything about pets. You can't leave your pets, because you may be gone for months or more. You can't bring your pets on the evacuation trains (won't be allowed) or keep them in government run shelters (again, not allowed).
Just my opinion. I live in a coastal area that is impacted by hurricanes, so I've been through multiple government ordered evacuations. I know how it goes. I've also STAYED despite ordered evacuations. I know how that goes too. If you choose to stay in your own home on your own property... they can't arrest you for it. However, ZERO police protection will be provided. Also, if you leave your property for any reason... they can arrest and evacuate you.
Make good choices... like NOT living in NYC.
"Go-bags" are also for instances where, say, your house caught on fire. It doesn't have to be a city-wide tragedy for a go-bag to be useful.
This is a typical problem with preppers. They build a giant "bug-out" bag thinking that some large-scale emergency is going to happen where they're going to have to temporarily live in the woods and survive. When that's incredibly unlikely. What's most likely is you'll have to live with a relative for a short period of time, so you need stuff like deodorant and changes of clothes, not fire starters and hunting knives.
No offense to you, but if my house catches on fire, Im pretty sure Walmart still sells soap, deodorant, and T shirts. Preppers prepare for emergencies like civil unrest/ global market collapse/ large scale power grid collapse because in those situations, a trip to the store is probably not likely. I have one packed with medical supplies, tools, water filtration equipment, a .22 pistol, and ammunition. Its light enough and efficient enough to aid in safety and survival for 72 hours for any situation.
Personally, I feel like a go-bag is for "normal" emergencies, you have to rush to the hospital with a loved one for a night or two kind of thing.
A bug-out bag is the prepper live off grid big time emergency bag.
Imho, you should have both.
Idk when I decided this, but there I am.. lol
Walmart may sell soap, deodorant, and Tshirts, but are they open at 2 in the morning when you are forced out? Perhaps in your area, yes, but the last thing you'll want to do after a personal tragedy like a housefire is take a trip to Walmart. And, sure, your relative may have stuff you can borrow, but the normalcy of having your own stuff, especially after everything else you owned was destroyed, is crucial for a time like this.
Moreover, Walmart doesn't sell copies of your important documents and a harddrive of all your computer data.
This style of "bug-out" bag is incredibly common among the more realistic group of preppers, and it lends itself well to larger scale tragedies, as well. If a hurricane or tornado comes through, those stores may have been hit or may be out of stock as everyone else scrambles to buy shit.
"Preppers" aren't all people like you who focus on Hollywood level tragedies like civil unrest and global market collapse. And, even if they do, they recognize that these smaller scale tragedies are far more likely. To be honest, a bug out bag with survival equipment is typically a larp.