I think we have all thought about a survival retreat in the woods.Usually our mind goes to a cabin with a wood stove a well right out of a Danial Boone book.Now in today's world if we had this it would be broke into looted used as a meth lab or a dozen other things if we didn't live there.
Now we have all read about PVC caches Bucket cache and others.I have several of these myself but due to size they are limited in what can be stored and provide little shelter.The PVC cache is usually for 3 or 4 days food some ammo and a few other items. A Bucket cache will hold a weeks food for 2,ammo other items to help for a short period.Here are a few pics of typical tube and bucket caches
Most preppers will refuse to leave their homes the idea of "bugging out" isn't an option.For some it due to age others its health.For most its "This is my castle" i have all my prep's in the basement,garage,shed.I feel the same way but if the Feds or a zombie hoard comes you will die.At best you will flee and lose most of your supplies.Then you are down to what you hid in buckets and PVC caches.
I want something safer with more options.I want it for the house or on other property.I don't want to have it found and robbed to crackheads or government flunkies (little difference both are parasites).I want capacity to have a chance.
you know, i was looking at tuesday's post and thinking you don't have to dig a hole.especially with drainage and rain in hurricanes and such-like.
ReplyDeleteyou could build the shelter to specs for holding up under a ton of dirt and then just cover it with soil to a proper thickness and plant a cover crop to hold the dirt.
still expensive but should be storm safe, like living in a tumulus.
deb h.
Deb drainage is a concern but you are right a bermed shelter will work.An easy way is to half bury and use the dirt as cover.As for expense it can be kept resonable.
DeleteIn Florida I can't have an in ground or buried shelter. If it were allowed where I live I would buy a 40 foot shipping container, set it in the yard on a bed of gravel for drainage then order in a dozen truck loads of fill dirt and bury it up to the top rim. Leave the doors on the ends exposed so if one end was blocked by debriss you could use the other to get out. Simple and cheap and very effective and very safe from zobies and weather.
ReplyDeleteVery true mike.I didnt think about hurricans as much as civil unrest and mobs.
DeleteBugging out for me is just not an option unless a hurricane flattens the house or a nuke spill at the naval bases forces us out. I live in a very safe, very inaccessible area in this town and feel that if I have to I will defend the property and this small neighborhood. At home I have everything I need to continue to be safe, eat and be warm while others are in chaos. Bugging out and trying to live in a tent is not going to last long before you are miserable.
ReplyDeleteMike my mind was more on Mobs raiding,confiscation door to door and burning nieborhoods.The limits of most caches = death next post is an option.
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