#Bugout

[hellsgate-roadhouse]

Gunkanjima Island - Nagasaki, Japan .

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD have a history as odd, or as poignant as Gunkanjima’s.

The tiny, fortress-like island lies just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is ringed by a seawall, covered in tightly packed buildings, and entirely abandoned - a ghost town that has been completely uninhabited for more than forty years. In the early 1900s, Gunkanjima was developed by the Mitsubishi Corporation, which believed - correctly - that the island was sitting on a rich submarine coal deposit.

For almost the next hundred years, the mine grew deeper and longer, stretching out under the seabed to harvest the coal that was powering Japan’s industrial expansion.

By 1941, the island, less than one square kilometer in area, was producing 400,000 tonnes of coal per year.

And many of those working slavishly in the undersea mine were forced laborers from Korea.

Even more remarkable than the mine was the city that had grown up around it.

To accommodate the miners, ten-story apartment complexes were built up on the tiny rock - a high-rise maze linked together by courtyards, corridors, and stairs. There were schools, restaurants, and gaming houses, all encircled by the protective seawall.

The island became known as “Midori nashi Shima,” the island without green.

Amazingly, by the mid-1950s, it housed almost six thousand people, giving it the highest population density the world has ever known. And then the coal ran out.

Mitsubishi closed the mine, everyone left, and this island city was abandoned, left to revert back to nature.

The apartments began to crumble, and for the first time, in the barren courtyards, green things started to grow. Broken glass and old newspapers blew over the streets. The sea-breeze whistled through the windows.

Now, fifty years later, the island is exactly as it was just after Mitsubishi left. A ghost town in the middle of the sea.

[burbprepper]

I wanted to use this space to unload my frustration. Today my frustration level is beyond anything I had ever thought it could be. Frustration vs Stress. Which is it?

Does anyone read these blogs actually? I have a feeling I’m talking to myself.

Today I’d like to cover something that’s becoming more of a reality. I’m concerned that the next few weeks we may be more susceptible to a home invasion. With world affairs and the way it’s leaning, I think many are getting more desperate. People are getting more hungry, more unhinged and soon it will be a free for all. Maybe not in two weeks but soon.

How have you fortified your home? Don’t you want to protect your family, yourself or your lifestyle? Take the time and take care of those little things that will help protect you. Here are a few ideas.

1. Fortify the front and back door with long nails or screws

2. Put up solar motion detectors outside around perimeter

3. Put duct tape in an X in your windows so if they break they won’t shatter

4. Sandbag your windows that are accessible

5. Put dowels in windows, leave no room to get it

6. Put bars over windows if possible

7. Get a fire extinguisher for possible fires inside and out

8. Get protection immediately (yes I mean pew pew)

9. Make sure you have a first aid bag fully stocked

10. Put in a battery operated security system

[etakeh]

@autumngracy , here we go.

Bugging out with Margaret Killjoy.

There's another where she shows off her off-grid house.

I wonder how it's going now. She's got a podcast, but I haven't listened to it because it's about cool people and I'm still catching up on bastards.

[the-end-of-it-all]

intro.

~ 16F ~ name is carmen ~ catholic ~

i’ll be doing regular posts about the shit i’m learning and filling a notebook with all of the info. prepping in case of a civil war starting after the election. democrats are fucking violent.

going to be done with the notebook before the election with a personal deadline of November 3, 2024. also going to be rereading the bible in that amount of time.

trump 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[mercenarygarage]

[irrepressible-domovoy]

OP is entirely correct that you need to be prepared for less glamorous types of bugging out. Not everything is going to be action/spy movies; it's more likely you'll be one of the people on the freeway.

And be prepared to work together with other people. Community care is the only way to survive any emergency.

I recommend bringing a deck of cards (uno if you have kids) so you have something to do in the downtime you will inevitably have.

Something like baby wipes are great in an emergency, especially when stuck in a car. My sister also introduced me to Scrubzz, wash rags that have soap and shampoo in them. You just get them wet and wash yourself, but you don't need to rinse.

If you have pets, make sure you bring them some toys as well as their food. I also have a leash for my cat so she doesn't have to stay in a carrier if we need to travel a long time.

And I know you might not like it, but masks and replacement filters are key. They protect you from illness, smoke, gas leaks, etc.

Been seeing a lot of folks talk about bugout bags where the context seems to be fleeing a Knock from secret police or something, and I want to gently suggest folks consider more likely reasons to bug out (wildfires, crumbling infrastructure leading to gas leaks, etc).

Make sure your bag can get you through scenarios where you are part of a mass evacuation, rather than you clandestinely leaving in the middle of the night to escape brownshirts.

I feel like thinking in this context will help folks prepare better and think beyond fleeing to the nearest border as their prime objective.

I don't like giving this regime more power than it actually has, so it is helpful to me to think about what I would do in specific scenarios. Planning for those gives me much more concrete action items, reduces my panic, and ends up preparing me better for unknown situations.

A lot of us have real fear of this regime rn, and escaping a Knock is a realistic concern.

But I feel like a lot of white, cishet, middle class folks are in oppression cosplay mode rn, and their brains aren't in a practical space for what the more likely impact to their lives is going to be.

If preparing for a Knock isn't also going to prepare you for facing sitting in traffic for 12 hours with no hotel plans because you need to evacuate a natural disaster on short notice, you should think a bit more about your risk factors and resiliency.

Vague prepping for "When shit hits the fan" means you are going to forget key items. Come up with some specific scenarios to run through and see how your kit would perform.

[forgeline]

Bug out with the bare essentials. Jeep's Wrangler Bug Out 4xe concept was built as a minimalist lightweight overlanding vehicle. Based upon a four-door Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon, the Bug Out 4xe received an extended body, flat rear floor, and raised roof to create more space for cargo and camping. It's also equipped with mounts for hammocks and bug netting, as well as an electric off-road scooter mounted to the rear bed. It gets traction from 37x12.50R18 BFGoodrich All Terrain KO3 tires and 18x9 Forgeline one piece forged monoblock VV1R wheels finished in Frozen Charcoal! See more at: https://www.forgeline.com/customer-gallery-jeep/cgk2882 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 ---------------- Wheel: Forgeline VV1R Type: One Piece Forged Monoblock Series: Motorsport Series Size: 18x9.0 Finish: Frozen Charcoal

[hellsgate-roadhouse]

[slrmagazine]

PHOTO GALLERY: Bugout at The Offbeat Bar on May 10th, 2025, by Louie Figueroa. #bugout

[purdunkin]

SHFT Prepper Bug-Out-Bag Survival Gear: Barnett Crossbow 4x32mm Multi-Reticle Scope #shtf #barnett

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[mercenarygarage]

The Mercenary VW T4 with home-made Raised Air Intake

[lmpwon]

Escape

[burbprepper]

Isn’t this the truth?

[hellsgate-roadhouse]

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I saw your post about bugout bags and like ... bracketing the Gestapo Doorknock thing, when did the "correct" response to a natural disaster become to immediately flee and go into refugee mode? The negative fantasy here is heroically saving yourself while your idiot neighbors die, instead of making the kinds of community connections that people actually use to survive and respond to disasters.

I get what you are saying about community connections being the best path to resiliency, but you should very much flee from floods and wildfires when at risk, to name a few. Ideally while making sure your neighbors are also getting out of Dodge, all assuming there has been ample warning for this particular disaster. But sometimes, there are scenarios where you just have to go that very moment.

For all their talk of bugouts bags, I don't think the capital-P Preppers actually want to leave their home bunkers.

The same American Exceptionalism that causes people here to have Lone Wolf apocalypse fantasies also makes them think they can survive a hurricane in a coastal flood zone.

There is an element of humility required to leave one's home possibly permanently. But that's the key difference, here -- the Preppers aren't as interested in survival as they are in ushering in some kind of new World Order.

You see this type pop up every now and then as a hurricane sets its sights on a town -- the people who make it a big point to talk about what they'd do to a looter, should the Big One hit. These are folks who are not interested in becoming a refugee amd are fine with the risk of staying home, if it means they can shoot people from their little castles.

I also saw more mundane selfishness when I did hurricane rideouts for emergency operations in my old Florida city job -- part of our comms was to remind people that we could *not* send anyone out to help them peak-storm. Sometimes, fleeing (aka, saving yourself) is what keeps other people alive -- they don't have to risk their lives saving you because of your stubbornness.

So, I'm a bit skeptical of fleeing being a power fantasy. What's more likely to happen in a lot of natural disasters (especially those with lead times) is you either get renegade fools in clear danger refusing to leave, or uninformed folks not at risk who panic and think they need to evacuate when they should just hunker down. (And then there are the unfortunates who should evacuate and want to, but cannot because the system has failed them in some way.)

That said, for a longterm crisis, community absolutely is key. And even in a short-term crisis that requires an evacuation, one is presumably fleeing *to* some place that will have other refugees, and it's in one's best interests to build community even in these temporary conditions.