Occasionally we encounter situations that make us re-think how much we have our arrangements in place. One such situation occurred to me today. Waking up comfortably late, I had plans to go to a morning jiu jitsu class in order to start off my weekend. I gave myself a good amount of time to make it to my gymnasium, but there had been a holiday parade of some type all the way down a main street in Montreal, St. Catherine. An east-west obstacle prevented me from getting to the southern area of the city where my fitness center was. There were complete obstacles and police on each and every street.

It was alarming to consider just how effortlessly this could hinder mobility in the case of an actual catastrophe. I found myself trying to cover a distance that would normally only take ten to fifteen minutes amid traffic for a complete hour and a half. But in the case that anyone would need to leave the city for the south, they would have a real problem. If that parade was a mob of civilians looting, which we have observed previously in Montreal, and iif the blockades were made to end the chaos, we would be in the same situation.

Urban Prepping and Crammed Areas

One who lives in a city, needs to consider the bottlenecks for their bug out plan. As an illustration, Montreal is situated on an island in the St. Lawrence river, so that all of the points of egress are restricted to the 28 bridges. Many of the cities in North America based at seaside regions have parts of the city located on islands. If the bridge you consider is clogged, how many backups do you possess?

For cities located away from the coast, precisely the same scenario could occur with the highways. The biggest routes from a city may be blocked by traffic as conveniently as a bridge can. In case you are dependent on a car to get out of dodge, you are restricted to regions that are paved in most instances. This line of thinking has pushed me to reevaluate my emergency supplies as a prepper.

Rethinking my emergency materials

The reliance on traditional passages of egress has made me reexamine the possibility of using a car for urban prepping. Anything paved might be managed, and anything paved can be clogged by other people seeking to escape. There are some options which will remove you from this potential bottleneck:

Off-road motor vehicles: Using an all-terrain automobile means that you can possibly make roads anywhere you need to. It is obviously not a good choice for preppers like myself on islands who live in an urban setting. It could make it tricky to find the smaller areas. Furthermore, the gas usage could be a problem. Motorcycles/Smaller vehicles: Fuel efficiency is actually a massive benefit for motorcycles. Being able to weave in between vehicles is a possible option. But, you have to go through the loads which can be delivered. Heavy loads like water are nearly possible support. Motorboats: Like the innovators of old, a kayak or ultralight may offer you accessibility to the tracks of nature. They are not necessarily applicable to landlocked users. Getting away by walking is the very last resort. Ounces, not pounds are the focus with regards to products. Overall well being is important.