I bugged out just about two weeks before the Great Panic. I started preparing for the bug out a week before that. The internet and news reports were escalating in their frequency about a new virus overseas and how it was contagious, hostile and deadly. They were calling it a new strain of rabies that only infected primates yet the CDC and other doctors and scientists were saying that this disease has nothing to do with rabies. The last word I heard is that it is not even a virus and that they have no current classification for it. It is infectious in primates but it does not seem to affect any other species. Just us and certain monkeys.
The first news reports started almost six weeks ago. There was talk about the infection occurring in Africa and mass genocide and riots with entire villages and even nations erupting in chaos. About a week later some of the refuges and wounded westerners started infecting medical workers and loved ones back in their home countries. There still wasnt much detail out yet just that the victims suffered from violent hysteria and were dangerously aggressive and needed to be restrained while treated. Africa was placed on an unofficial quarantine and that is when the press and news really started paying attention. There was a constant hysteria in the media about how unethical it was not to help out and how racist the quarantine was because if there were white people in Africa this never would be allowed to happen. The entire time the infection was starting to spread in countries across the world and governments were in panic about the ferocity of the infected and something about how it spread.
A month ago is when I read the first blog report by a M.D. with Doctors Without Borders who insisted that those infected actually brain died from the disease but then continued living and attacking and eating non infected people. He had some disturbing photos of the chaos in Africa as well as LiveLeak videos shot in Africa. No one wanted to use the word zombie yet, at least not out loud, but is was sure starting to sound like a zombie horror movie. After reading the doctors blog for a couple of days and then hearing of some extreme cases in the United States such as three military C-141 transport aircraft crashed while bringing wounded embassy personnel home from Nigeria. It was widely speculated from a leaked cockpit transmission that the infected passengers attacked everyone in the plane including the pilots. The planes crashed killing everyone on board. I heard enough. The rest of that week I drove out into the countryside and rented several storage units in different locations. Each storage unit was chosen for its geographical location on the outskirts or outside of town, fenced in secure storage area and surrounded by as much open undeveloped area as possible. The last thing I wanted was a storage unit in the middle of town encompassed by population.
In each storage unit I started purchasing and storing all sorts of supplies that I thought might be necessary. Ammunition, tools, food, water, household goods I just went on a spending spree. I think I spent over $20,000 in five days at Home Depot, Costco and Walmart alone. I initially tried to break everything down in the IX classes of supply so that I wouldnt forget anything, but that proved way too difficult, so instead I just walked down the aisles filling my carts as I went. I was still ahead of the panic curve, just slightly, so luckily stores were still in stock with everything. I still have the receipts for everything I purchased too just in case the world didnt go to hell and I was being an idiot. I figured I could return everything if need be. Turns out no returns are necessary. That still doesnt mean Im not an idiot. Just that I am not getting my money back. It was tiring and exhausting but I still felt safer.
The next four or five days I just followed the news. I pulled my H1 out of storage and pulled it around to the back of the house so it didnt become too tempting a target for looters. I loaded up the vehicle with spare fuel cans, and enough water and food for five days. My long term kit was packed up in the vehicle along with weapons and ammo and batteries. In the house I kept my body armor and personal kit ready to go at a moments notice. I started studying maps, google earth and the internet for possible bug out locations within 300 miles and making a list with their location and coordinates. By the end of the week Washington DC, New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Chicago were in major civil unrest. The military had been activated to help contain the violence and assist with the evacuation. Fox News reported that the President had left Washington DC the day before to be moved to an undisclosed secure location. I figure if it was time for the President to bug out then it was time for me to do the same. That night, using darkness to attract less attention and hopefully less people on the road, I drove to the most promising location on my list of possible retreats.
The first news reports started almost six weeks ago. There was talk about the infection occurring in Africa and mass genocide and riots with entire villages and even nations erupting in chaos. About a week later some of the refuges and wounded westerners started infecting medical workers and loved ones back in their home countries. There still wasnt much detail out yet just that the victims suffered from violent hysteria and were dangerously aggressive and needed to be restrained while treated. Africa was placed on an unofficial quarantine and that is when the press and news really started paying attention. There was a constant hysteria in the media about how unethical it was not to help out and how racist the quarantine was because if there were white people in Africa this never would be allowed to happen. The entire time the infection was starting to spread in countries across the world and governments were in panic about the ferocity of the infected and something about how it spread.
A month ago is when I read the first blog report by a M.D. with Doctors Without Borders who insisted that those infected actually brain died from the disease but then continued living and attacking and eating non infected people. He had some disturbing photos of the chaos in Africa as well as LiveLeak videos shot in Africa. No one wanted to use the word zombie yet, at least not out loud, but is was sure starting to sound like a zombie horror movie. After reading the doctors blog for a couple of days and then hearing of some extreme cases in the United States such as three military C-141 transport aircraft crashed while bringing wounded embassy personnel home from Nigeria. It was widely speculated from a leaked cockpit transmission that the infected passengers attacked everyone in the plane including the pilots. The planes crashed killing everyone on board. I heard enough. The rest of that week I drove out into the countryside and rented several storage units in different locations. Each storage unit was chosen for its geographical location on the outskirts or outside of town, fenced in secure storage area and surrounded by as much open undeveloped area as possible. The last thing I wanted was a storage unit in the middle of town encompassed by population.
In each storage unit I started purchasing and storing all sorts of supplies that I thought might be necessary. Ammunition, tools, food, water, household goods I just went on a spending spree. I think I spent over $20,000 in five days at Home Depot, Costco and Walmart alone. I initially tried to break everything down in the IX classes of supply so that I wouldnt forget anything, but that proved way too difficult, so instead I just walked down the aisles filling my carts as I went. I was still ahead of the panic curve, just slightly, so luckily stores were still in stock with everything. I still have the receipts for everything I purchased too just in case the world didnt go to hell and I was being an idiot. I figured I could return everything if need be. Turns out no returns are necessary. That still doesnt mean Im not an idiot. Just that I am not getting my money back. It was tiring and exhausting but I still felt safer.
The next four or five days I just followed the news. I pulled my H1 out of storage and pulled it around to the back of the house so it didnt become too tempting a target for looters. I loaded up the vehicle with spare fuel cans, and enough water and food for five days. My long term kit was packed up in the vehicle along with weapons and ammo and batteries. In the house I kept my body armor and personal kit ready to go at a moments notice. I started studying maps, google earth and the internet for possible bug out locations within 300 miles and making a list with their location and coordinates. By the end of the week Washington DC, New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Chicago were in major civil unrest. The military had been activated to help contain the violence and assist with the evacuation. Fox News reported that the President had left Washington DC the day before to be moved to an undisclosed secure location. I figure if it was time for the President to bug out then it was time for me to do the same. That night, using darkness to attract less attention and hopefully less people on the road, I drove to the most promising location on my list of possible retreats.
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ginary:
so true its lots of fun!
dryad:
You know, I do have someone for that. 