There's hyperinflation, but that takes more than 12 hours to kick in.
These bug out bags I still can't get my head wrapped around their usefulness though.
Most of us don't need to see the flames to know there is a fire... we smell the smoke. (The hinting of an economic collapse). Look at the way Central Banking has tanked much of the European Union. To think we aren't next is more than cavalier.... it's down right asinine.
Factor in the BRIC nations forming alliances to tank our Petro dollars and the writing is on the wall. Add in that Mexico is now selling oil to China via Gold and the yuan and the picture gets even bleaker.
Many people scoff at the conspiracy theories about Martial Law ( and that is their prerogative to do so), but I can assure you our military is preparing for it. Fort Polk here in Louisiana is a major training facility for those scenarios and the U.N. even participates. If you're in Louisiana for any length of time you will see U.N. vehicles being shipped via train all the time.
The Army has a new MOS (military occupational specialty) :
Internment and Resettlement Specialist. To be stationed state side. Why is this needed?
Q: Who is going to be "Interned" and who is going to need "Resettling"?
A: Anyone stupid enough to be in a major metro area when food, fuel and water are no longer available.
Personally I find the prospect of living in a rural area should this go down more pleasant than an "Internment Camp" when the Government decides that society needs to be corralled and herded like cattle in some far off facility to save it from itself.
In an economic collapse within three days the US would reach absolute gridlock. No food, No fuel and No water... trucks and trains would stop moving, ports of entry would be closed off and violence would ensue.
Look around you (for those living in America) and notice all these young men and grown ass men who fancy themselves as "Beast's" and "Gangster's", "Real Nigga's" and live by a credo of "I takes what I's want", "Im'ma beast, me" or "Watch me go into Beast Mode and take what I want". Black, White, Asian, Latino, even Native American ... this attitude and behavior crosses all boundaries. Some are poseurs and wannabe's... but that doesn't stop them form being stupid and trying to show off for their crew. Add in the real "Real Nigga's" that are out to take advantage of situations , the peckerwoods who will "Yee-Haw" and think we can go stir up some trouble and kill us some Niggra's now.Sprinkle in the idiot tough guys (there are more than enough examples in this thread and others that broach the subject) who are going to shoot first and maybe ask questions later, the outright fearful who will shoot at everything because they are cowards and anxious...etc etc and you get a picture of what a BOB is good for and what it is used for.
In a situation like this "Bugging In" is not an option. You have to move and you have to move quickly. Maybe you'll be able to get out of Dodge in a vehicle, maybe you won't. That is why we pack our shit in a B.O.B.
This is why we buy places like this in undisclosed area's in Tennessee and/or Missouri :
This is why we have vehicles like this in reserve, waiting for that SHTF moment to get out if we can:
Maybe I am crazy, maybe I am overreacting, maybe I am pissing my money away preparing for an event that will never come to pass... but I want to be safe rather than sorry. I have seen those people that have found themselves in the position of "sorry" and it isn't any fun.
If it doesn't happen, well then I have some beautiful property to go camp and hunt on. And I have a hoopty to play in the mud when I want to. No harm, no foul.
