Sir, what i did with my wife and son was check out around the immediate areas where she works and he studies, we duly found two locations where they can hunker down completely out of sight and wait for me to get close enough t radio them, or pick them up. EG My sons RV location is a very heavily wooded and over grown traffic roundabout very close to his college. they both have mobiles and laptops and fm radios. I also have GHB in the boot (trunk) of their vehicles with essentials in IE rations, water, flashlight, light sticks, fleece and shoes plus a decent knife. They know if the balloon goes up NOT to ask permission to leave work or college but to just go and lay low.
Exactly you dont wait until you are officially told to evac, you use your own judgement call and react accordingly. EG in the UK some years back a massive shopping Mall was ordered to close because of the treacherous winter weather outside that was causing traffic chaos, So the Mall duly closed tens of thousands of people took to their cars and promptly got stuck on the motorways in a blizzard after multiple crashes caused most of the roads in the area to be closed. One wise dude and his kids listened to the evac order looked at the weather, listened to the traffic news on his car radio then went and booked himself into a near by Days Inn.
Prevention better than cure, leaving early reactor better than dead complier etc
A lot of factors here, but of course, you two should try to meet up, then take one vehicle home or to your bug out location. Traffic jam shouldn't be a worry, as you have emergency bags, so may have to go on foot. Biggest point is to have an established meeting place. Of course, different situations may call for improvisation, but as long as these alternatives are stated ahead of time, you should be good.
This is one of my main concerns too. My wife works in a remote location about 2800 miles from home. She is limited in what she can carry on commercial airlines but she does carry as much food as possible and a small water filter. That's about all of the survival stuff she can take. The area where she works is fairly well supplied so I'm not too worried about something happening when she's at work. Its the travel between her work and home that scares me with the possible loss of communication and transportation that could happen during a major dieaster such as an EMP.
I'd think being in remote Alaska would be a good place in shtf. You would be on your own, but that seems safer than in a city.
Yeah. Especially since he flies a Cessna 208 Caravan, which looks like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Los_Alamos_Cessna_208_2.JPG
I know what you are talking about but knowing my father he and my brother, who I forgot to mentioned sometimes works in Alaska, would want to making it back to me and my mother. So they would most likely not stay up there.
