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Selco: Moving Around (with Purpose) When the SHTF

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I called this article moving around with purpose when SHTF with clear intention.

SHTF, especially early stages may be a good opportunity to acquire things through looting, scavenging, or whatever you may call it. However, it is also a good opportunity to end up dead.

So, my advice, it is usually also NOT a good moment to go out without real purpose (or without right purpose) just to "check out what s going on." In other words, curiosity kills the cat.

It may be hard to resist to check " what's going on", I know it from personal experience, but try to find it out without sticking your head directly in.

It may sound logical that if you hear screams and shots in the middle of SHTF to run there and to check what's going on, but it is much more logical to stay home and prepare in the best possible way for the cause of those screams to come to you.

Come up with a clear plan of who stands where, who takes who, where are the ways for bugging out, and what each member of your family is gonna do on your mark.

It is an example only, a drastic example, I admit.

An article about moving when the SHTF for a lot of people may be like" I'll have my gun, my buddies, and drill", which is very simplyfied, and only part of bigger, much bigger picture.

Routes for moving when the SHTF

When we talk about moving when the SHTF in an urban area, it is impossible not to mention routes and interesting points on our way wherever we go.

Routes may (probably will) be quite different from our regular routes in normal life, so what you need to do today is to sit down and think about it. Let's call them "alternate routes" through your city or area.

What I have in mind is how you can go from point A to point B using that alternate way. Throw into practice the fact that you are using these alternate ways because you want to avoid people.

Now you need to know that you cannot cover all possibilities because of the nature of SHTF. There are gonna be a lot of new "points" of factors that you did not consider in your exercise.

For example, maybe you planned to use an alternate road through some abandoned storage facility but you did not factor in the fact that the storage facility would become a place for some local gang, or a refugee center or whatever.

What I want to say is that you cannot (as usual) plan for everything, but you can adopt a philosophy of alternate routes in your area.


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