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Escape from New York- Part 1, by Ragnar
There you are, in your off grid solar powered survival complex somewhere in the Redoubt, in a very carefully selected location, stocked to the rafters with every conceivable supply and armament. You are completely prepared for literally anything that might happen. ”Bring it” is your motto. Happy and confident that you have reached the pinnacle of prepping, you sit down at the keyboard to take care of some work e-mail. You open the first email and find, congratulations, you’re going to New York City! New York City?
For those of us who have not moved to the middle of nowhere and set up a robust home-based business to take care of all our financial needs, the question we run into most often is will our prepping survive first contact with the real world. For the majority of us, prepping means prepping in the real world with all its limitations, variables, and complications. A very large percentage of us routinely travel in the course of our employment. Given this fact, you can either decide that traveling is a risk you have to assume and cannot be prepared for, or you can look at travel as another opportunity to hone your prepping skills and open your eyes to a wide array of contingencies.
I had just that exact experience one recent winter. While I travel for business regularly, usually it is by vehicle. I will drive seven hours before I will fly two hours, because of the inherent advantages of driving, from a prepared person’s perspective. Flying, particularly post-9/11 is terrible, and you spend most of your time in an airport rather than actually traveling, and getting all your EDC gear through security is not possible. Traveling by vehicle presents certain advantages and disadvantages and is a topic for a separate article. However, on a regular basis, I must fly in the course of my employment. I usually cannot control the destination and time of year. Recently this resulted in my having to fly to, of all places, New York City! Now there are not a lot of places you can travel that are as hostile to the prepared traveler as New York City, and I was very worried about how I would adapt. To make matters even more challenging, it was for four days in the dead of winter. I survived the experience and have conducted my own “after action review” to see what I can learn from the experience. I decided to share those observations with you, so you might be better prepared in your struggle to prep practically in your day-to-day world.
It would be helpful to know a bit about me and my background, to evaluate my approach and philosophy. I am a dyed in the wool “trip wire” prepper who has been oriented towards preparedness since the Y2K event. “Trip wire” means that while I have a broad base of preps and plans, I have several “trip wires” or triggering events defined, which will cause me to dramatically accelerate food and water storage beyond current levels (aimed at surviving a one month civil/weather/global emergency).
Source: https://survivalblog.com/escape-from-new-york-part-1-by-ragnar/
