Back in October,
Brian Anderson suggested that we needed to put together a “bug out” plan – a
contingency where we could go mobile if we needed to. Personally, I hate that
term but you heard it thrown around all the time on those doomsday reality
shows. Given our recent breach of security and not knowing what the future may
hold, I think now is a really good time to consider putting that theory into
practice.
I put together a
small brain trust to kick around some ideas. We came up with a number of ideas
that included a cavalcade of SUVs, retrofitting a semi-trailer, and even taking
a contingent of people over to the RV sales place in Claremore. All had pros
and cons but Brian came up with a pretty ingenious plan that involved
converting buses from Adair into rolling, mobile fortresses.
The plan involves
retrofitting a minimum of three buses from Adair Schools to transport us out of
Langley either in the event of a meltdown emergency or have we have cycled
through the Year One Plan. Three buses seem a tad excessive considering that we
only average around thirty survivors. However there is a method to the madness.
1) If we are stop for
the night in an area, say a Walmart parking lot, we can "circle the
wagons" by parking the buses in a triangle formation that would give us
some semblance of safety.
2) We always like to
incorporate some sort of redundancy into our plans. We like our back up plans
to have back up plans. The plan is to transform one bus into a rolling fuel
depot so that we can refill along the road if we need to. We have no idea how
easily it will be to find fuel once we are out on the road. Plus, we have
multiple vehicles in the event that we have mechanical failure or lose tires
along the way.
3) The third excuse
really is for comfort. We are looking to turn these things into mobile homes. We
plan on outfitting them with sleeping bunks and the largest caches of water and
food that we can carry. Going back to an earlier article about the difficulties
of going mobile, it takes a considerable amount of supply space to get this
crew ready to move.
4) While the buses
can be larger and louder than most vehicles, they are also built to last and
are the closest thing we can get to a rolling tank. While nothing would stand
up to the horde that we saw in November, if we had to slowly bulldoze our way
through a small pack of zoms, I would be much more confident doing it in a
school bus as opposed to a sports car made mostly of Fiberglas.
